Comments on: A mystery solved

By: Marine6

Marine6 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:38:50 +0000

He, and John Gillespie McGee Jr. had that wonderful gift of capturing the wonder that invades your heart, and soul, when first you “slip the surly bounds of Earth.”

It is a gift that has undoubtedly driven thousands to follow their dream of flight.

You, sir, are a true inheritor of that gift and I urge you to utilize it to reach a broader audience than you do today. I’m sure that there lurks within your fertile mind the seeds of several books that may serve to ignite the spark in yet another generation. Get thee to thy computer, sire!

By: Steeljaw Scribe

Steeljaw Scribe — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:16:14 +0000

“Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.
When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

- SJS

By: david foster

david foster — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:58:21 +0000

His “Flight to Arras” is a beautiful and deep book which doesn’t get read as much as some of his other stuff. The unfinished “Wisdom of the Sands” (an unfortunate title–it was called “Citadelle” in French) is also well worth reading.

By: Fontessa

Fontessa — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:14:30 +0000

I know I must have read “Night Flight” but I don’t remember it. I do have a 40-year old paperback of “Wind, Sand and Stars.” It has that slightly sweet odor that old books get, and the pages are aged to cafe au lait.

I guess I’ll print out the news story and tuck it into the book.

By: GM Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET

GM Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:57:29 +0000

Read this one as a youngster and then again while deployed somewhere on the other side of the world.

By: Marianne Matthews

Marianne Matthews — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:55:00 +0000

I agree with Fontessa. Damn those Germans!

Marianne