[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 160 (Wednesday, December 12, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1918]
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      TO SUCH NEW HEIGHTS IN HONOR OF NEIL ARMSTRONG AND HIS LIFE

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                           HON. JEAN SCHMIDT

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, December 12, 2012

  Mrs. SCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of and in tribute 
to, a great American hero from my district in Ohio, Neil Armstrong.
  As humble as the day is long, his life of courage and exploration 
will live on. I submit this poem penned in his honor, by Albert Caswell 
``To Such New Heights.''

                          To Such New Heights

     To .  .  .
     To Such New Heights!
     All in your most courageous humble life,
     Neil, as you have soared!
     All up upon your most heroic course, as you so set forth to 
           take flight!
     As none before had done!
     To higher places, to where such souls of honor now so grace 
           us .  .  .
     So grace us with but all of their courage all the more, to so 
           take flight and move onward so boldly forth!
     Ah, to walk upon the moon!
     To far off and most distant shores!
     As have you so come and gone,
     but to so cast out your most brilliant light as formed!
     To so bless our world, all with exploration's golden glow in 
           sight so very warm!
     To such places, where such fine hearts of honor so ignite us, 
           and so await us to so live on!
     As Neil you were off!
     All in what your most heroic life to us has taught!
     As to our world what you have so brought!
     As we so look back now all in such awe, as we so reflect upon 
           what we so saw!
     As You So Soared!
     To Such New Heights as none had done so before .  .  .
     All for Women and Mankind's very futures to so insure!
     `Ah, to walk upon the moon!
     As you were gone!
     Upward and onward, so far .  .  . far .  .  . and beyond, all 
           now so etched in history living on!
     To Soar!
     All in explorations quest which so lies before!
     `Ah, To walk upon the moon!
     `Ah, a dream as old as Mankind from out of the womb .  .  .
     ``That's one step for man, one giant leap for Mankind!''
     Creating such a Buzz, as Collins your safe return home so 
           ensured .  .  .
     As out to all hearts you would so implore!
     And as a freedom fighter who, for all of us so fought for!
     His parent's pride, a loving husband at his wife's side, his 
           children's hero and delight as so adored .  .  .
     And a Patriot for America and in The United States Air Force, 
           who so fought in The Korean War!
     Not The Forgotten One for sure!
     And as a test pilot, but living all out on that very edge!
     That edge of death, where so many of your magnificent 
           brothers lives where so lost and pledged!
     Who with their courage and sacrifice our nation so blessed!
     And to space that final frontier .  .  .
     And back and forth all in what was so said here!
     As ever in your life Neil,
     To Such New Heights as you have so sped and pioneered!
     To Such New Frontiers!
     Armed with but only your most uncommon heart of valor, that 
           which so led all without fear!
     `Ah, to walk upon the moon!
     Was but something that within Mankind you said, that which 
           you so said so makes them so strive for .  .  .
     As you were as humble as the day was long, as you would never 
           bath in the celebrity of the moonlight's sweet song!
     Moving quietly forth, all with your heart and soul, body and 
           mind, and ARMSTRONG!
     As now ever my son you shall so live on
           .  .  .
     With names like Columbus and Marco Polo, all in search of 
           discovery as born .  .  .
     All because of where your fine heart has come and gone!
     To New Such Heights, to such places where only magnificent 
           men and women of honor, so belong!
     So belong!
     As to this very day so way up there, but lie still your 
           footsteps upon that moon once so formed!
     As in my heart your words,
     I can so hear now so living on!
     ``That's one step for man, and one giant leap for Mankind''.  
           .  . all in that moment as was so born!
     For as long as America has but such blessed son's!
     And daughters as these ones!
     Who to her, will so give their most heroic hearts and souls 
           to discovery to run!
     Who, so selflessly do what must so be done!
     All in that quest To But Be The Best,
     To Such New Heights as won .  .  .
     Then,
     To Such New Heights we will all so come!
     So Soar!
     As upon this earth Neil, your time with us has so brought 
           forth!
     And so taken us,
     To Such New Heights and New Frontiers, that which to you so 
           soared!
     With your heart and soul, body and mind, and ARMSTRONG all 
           the more!
     `Ah, but to walk upon that moon!

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