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Date of upload: Apr 15, 2024 ^^
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Thank you Mark. Deeply moving for me, as I knew the Vern DeAutremont, the 4th and youngest of the DeAutremont brothers who was not 'possessed' to do such a thing" as Ray later pondered. Vern became a a pioneering Air-mail pilot, legendary flight-instructor and comically stoic philosopher deeply loved by many and who helped shape the lives of many in aviation. Vern however carried the stigma of his brother's acts and remained a solitary and somewhat melancholy soul his entire life. He operated an flight operation in Oregon's Capitol Salem and spent the rest of his life operating it and caring for his mother who was born in Germany. She owned and operated a 19th century Swiss Mansion as a boarding house, that looked like a haunted mansion straight out of the Swiss Alps. "The DeAutremont Mansion" I think it was called, and Vern lived alone in that huge Mansion it until his passing.
In 1972, my father's good friend, the then-governor Tom McCall commuted Ray's sentence after a mutual friend, the warden of the Oregon State Penitentiary helped make the case to honor Ray's request that he be allowed to die a free man. I met Ray once when my father and his friend the warden (A pilot as well) offered to help re-aquatint Vern and Ray, but I can recall for certain if Vern and Ray ever met after Ray was released as I to recall Vern saying he visited his brother Huge once but had no interest in seeing Ray again as it was something he and and his mother suffered much pain and heartache as the lines of your poem poignantly recall.
I hope you will continue to bless us with more timeless works and collaborations in the many years to come, Cheers mate!
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@EvgeniyNeutralMusician
1 month ago
Definately one of the best songs on the album along with "Sweeter Than The Rain", brilliant story of the classic Western epoch, splendidly told by the master Mark Knopfler.
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