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Robert D. McClure
August 18, 2022 at 8:06 AM
Always remember our Air Force comrads in arms & football rivals were once the Army Air Service, then Army Air Corps, then Army Air Force before finally making the error of becoming just an Air Force. So, come November they may need a little historical reminder of their upbringing.
Beat Air Force!
A Poem by Berton Braley
The Aviator
Oh, I clamber up high to the vault of the sky
Far above all the muck of the trenches,
Far above the quick ire of the maxim gun fire
Far above all the reek and the stenches.
There’s a puff from below in the lines of the foe
where a gunner is seeking to harm me,
But I drop and I rise from his shells in the skies
And I still am the eye of the Army.
For it’s my job to learn every rolly and turn
Of the enemy right when they make it.
I’m a sentry whose care is a post in the air
And it isn’t for me to forsake it.
So I duck and I skip and I dodge and I dip
From the aeroplane shells that would mar me,
While the gunner with zest does his Sunday School Best
To put out the eye of the Army.
Now there isn’t much chance for the ancient romance
In the days of mechanical slaughter
When we shed human blood
in a horrible flood
In the face of the land and the water.
But I am not bound by the soldier’s dull round
For in war’s mighty drama they star me,
And it’s still a great game full of glory and fame
For the ventursome eye of the Army!
– Berton Braley