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I wrote this while in San Antonio, Texas waiting for our granddaughter's graduation from her specialty training. Needless to say, I am more than a little proud of her.

The Air Force

The Air Force
By Franklin Price
1/18/2017

The Air Force  means so much to me
Started nineteen-sixty-five
Left college and enlisted
To mature and survive

Received an education
I would use throughout my days
The discipline I learned back then
Not just another phase

A career for me was not to be
Left at the end of four
Took along what I had learned
To search for something more

The years have gone and flown away
Now through another's eyes
New memories provided
By a legacy who flies

I was but enlisted
She wears lieutenant's bars
Looking to the future
Striving for the stars

So proud of my granddaughter
She carries on for me
She is the kind of airman
 I always strove to be
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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