AFOVA New Letter 2 of Year 2021

Section 7 – Panorama CV 2 No. 02 / 2021 Page 247 of 332 As we grew in the service in our various hues, The big transformation came when the Air Force adopted the blues. Some did well and grew in stature and rank, Making us proud as a group because we all came from the same bank. But the sad part of life is something we must endure, As course-mates fell by the wayside and missed the future. It was the Hut of Remembrance which had made us circumspect, A memorial to the valiant and dead, we grew to respect. The Academies were vast, we never realised Till we met course-mates we hardly recognised. The ravages of time and success and failure Saw the ever expanding gap widen even further. Time has never been kind, it was horribly evident As decades later we met each other, balding and rather bent The travails of the service saw many course corrections Good friends and buddies wandered into different directions It was business for some, DGR for another Just trying to keep afloat suddenly seemed quite a bother The kids grew up, life’s burden they did release, Thank God for small mercies, they were all CTCs !! The better halves lived up to their name A delightful bunch, always batting for the game. In times of trouble and through the crests and troughs, They provided the rudder to evade the roughs What would we do without them, we say We salute them all, hip hip hurray ! Life was good for the course and what made it bright Was the array of “Stars” that justified the might