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    The Tree

    By Michael Collins

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    the Tree is a story of a tiny seed that grew to be a great tree. This wonderful tree became a very sad tree, as it was fashioned into a symbol of suffering and shame. Still it again became a wonderful emblem, an icon to remind all men of our freedom purchased on this tree.

    For over two thousand years it remains. Today, anywhere you travel you may see a symbol of that tree, a tree that will live forever in our hearts as long as earth remains.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateAug 6, 2015
    ISBN9781490888682
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    Michael Collins

    Michael Collins (1930-2021) was an astronaut, one of 24 who have flown to the moon. A West Point graduate, he was an Air Force jet-fighter pilot and a test-pilot before being recruited by NASA in 1963 as a member of the third astronaut group selected for the Apollo moon project. Lieutenant Colonel Collins flew in the Gemini 10 space mission, orbiting the earth forty-three times in 1966, and piloted the Apollo 11 module for the 1969 lunar mission which put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon’s surface. After NASA, Collins became director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, then under secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and vice president of the LTV Aerospace and Defense Company. He held the rank of major general when he retired from the Air Force Reserve. Collins recounted his experiences as an astronaut in the memoirs Carrying the Fire and Flying to the Moon.

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