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Does anyone have an electronic version of the maintenance man image that goes with this poem that they could send me? Need it for a retirement program.

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Scott

Remembering the Forgotten Mechanic

Through the history of world aviation

many names have come to the fore

Great deeds of the past in our memory will last,

as they're joined by more and more.

When man first started his labor

in his quest to conquer the sky

he was designer, mechanic and pilot

and he built a machine that would fly

but somehow the order got twisted,

and then in the public's eye

the only man that could be seen

was the man who knew how to fly

The pilot was everyone's hero,

he was brave, he was bold, he was grand,

as he stood by his battered old biplane

with his goggles and helmet in hand.

To be sure, these pilots all earned it,

to fly you have to have guts.

And they blazed their names in the hall of fame

on wings with bailing wire struts.

But for each of these flying heroes

there were thousands of little renown,

and these were the men who worked on the planes

but kept their feet on the ground.

We all know the name of Lindbergh,

and we've read of his flight of fame.

But think, if you can, of his maintenance man,

can you remember his name?

And think o four wartime heroes,

Gabreski, Jabara, and Scott.

Can you tell me the names of their crew chief?

A thousand to one you cannot.

Now pilots are highly trained people,

and wings are not easily won.

But without the work of the maintenance man,

our pilots would march with a gun.

So when you see mighty jet aircraft

as they mark their way through the air,

the greased stained man with a wrench in his hand

is the man that put them there.

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