Gift #399- Capt. Reid "Eeyore" Nannen

Captain Reid "Eeyore" Nannen

United States Marine Corps  

15 October 1981-  1 March 2014

Impressions of a Pilot

Flight is Freedom in its purest form,

To dance with the clouds which follow a storm;

To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,

To feel the joy that swells within.

To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,

And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;

Then back to earth at the end of the day,

Released from the tensions which melted away.

Should my end come while I am in flight,

Whether brightest day or darkest of night;

Spare me no pity and shrug off the pain,

Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again.

For each of us is created to die,

And within me I know,

I was born to fly.

Gary Claude Stoker

Reid, Sarah, Curtis, Betsy, Peter, & Baby Isla on the way

October 31, 2013