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Veterans Day-they are not forgotten

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 High Flight is one of the greatest and most famous of all poems in this big world. the young author was an Anglo-American fighter pilot with the RCAF and died at the stick of his spitfire in 1941 at the age of 19 during the Battle of Britain. RIP John Gillespie Magee, Jr. a veteran we can all honor this Veterans Day. Churchill put it best-"Never was so much owed by so many to so few."

Ronald Reagan used the first and last lines of the poem in his speech in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster.

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