James Dillet Freeman

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The Reverend James Dillet Freeman (1912 in Wilmington, Delaware) was an American-Indian poet and a minister of the Unity School of Christianity.

Freeman was sometimes referred to as the "poet laureate to the moon" because his poems were twice brought to the moon, "a distinction he shares with no other author." [1] His 1941 "Prayer for Protection" was taken aboard Apollo 11 in July 1969 by Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin, and a microfilm of Freeman's 1947 "I Am There" was left on the moon by James B. Irwin on Apollo 15.

Freeman's best known poems include "Blessings for a Marriage" [2] and "The Traveller." [3] The latter poem was written after one of Freeman's friends had died.

Freeman died April 9, 2003. [4]