SON OF WILLIAM ALLEN AND ELMA KATHRYN FERGUSON WRIGHT. MARRIED IN JAN 1957 IN PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, TO HELEN YORK BENTZ. SERVED IN VIETNAM, WAS IN JAPAN SHORTLY AFTER MARRIAGE, AND VISITED IN RED ROCK, NM AT THAT TIME. WAS WITH THE PACIFIC AIR FORCES AND WAS A FORWARD AIR CONTROLLER.
Enlistment Date: 30 Aug 1950
Discharge Date: 1 Sep 1970
Enlistment Date 1:
30 Aug 1950
Release Date 1:
1 Sep 1970
SON OF WILLIAM ALLEN AND ELMA KATHRYN FERGUSON WRIGHT. MARRIED IN JAN 1957 IN PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, TO HELEN YORK BENTZ. SERVED IN VIETNAM, WAS IN JAPAN SHORTLY AFTER MARRIAGE, AND VISITED IN RED ROCK, NM AT THAT TIME. WAS WITH THE PACIFIC AIR FORCES AND WAS A FORWARD AIR CONTROLLER.
Enlistment Date: 30 Aug 1950
Discharge Date: 1 Sep 1970
Enlistment Date 1:
30 Aug 1950
Release Date 1:
1 Sep 1970
Inscription
Front side says "A Beloved Dad Brother and Faithful Friend" "Pilot Major US Air Force"
Backside of stone has the poem 'HIGH FLIGHT"
"HIGH FLIGHT", the pilot's creed. By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of, wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless falls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor eagle flew
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Gravesite Details
BURIED IN THE NEWER SECTION OF CEM. FAR LEFT OF GATE TOWARDS THE BACK ROW. CLEARLY VISIBLE TALL BLACK STONE.
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