He wrote this 1968 if I remember correctly, and it came out on vinyl in 1969...I remember vividly with whom I danced it with...after his return from Vietnam....I have the record...oh the memories....
Recently, my husband, George, purchased Merle's Greatest Hits CD. He had this song playing and told me when he was in the Marine Corps, stationed in Okinawa, Japan, they would play this song the evening before a marine would be leaving to go home.
Silver wings was my grand mother’s favorite song, I can remember setting in the truck every morning and her playing it on her CD, it’s been 8 yrs now and on the day she pasted I play this song for her.
This song was on the radio, my husband was leaving for Vietnam! I cried so hard! Praise the Lord he made it home, but was never the same 19 year old kid! War makes people do things they never dreamed of doing!