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More info about our poetry host: @DevonMarsh1 lived on a farm until he was 12 and it was bought for a highway, part of the urban sprawl as Atlanta became an international city....(cont’d)

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Watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon when he was young, and the Navy's Blue Angels flight team when he was older, got him interested in aviation. For college, Devon earned an appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland....(cont’d)

Upon graduating and earning a commission as an officer, he attended flight school and became a Navy pilot. He flew the P-3 Orion, a long range patrol aircraft ideally suited for search flights. He left the Navy and flying after the Gulf War, and has worked in banking ever since