[Magdalen] Endless war...

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Yep. I often marvel at how I dodged a number of bullets over the years.

I suspect if I had gone to combat in Vietnam, it would have been more than
I could have borne.

(God, sitting at his computer console): "Hmm. That wouldn't end well."
 (punches some buttons) "Let's just send Jim to Germany..." (takes a closer
look, pucnhes another button) "And let's show him the work of my servant
Jim Pike.  I love it when a plan comes together!" (reaches for his pocket)

Gabriel: "Uh, no, no, milord. No smoking.  Your own rule, Remember?"

(God, under breath) "Ferschlugginner apparatchik!" (aloud) "Good call,
Gabe. Nice, uh, save."

Gabriel: "I heard that, you know."

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Arthur Laurent <ALaurent at npr.org> wrote:

> I was fresh out of USMC officer training at Quantico when I got my first
> orders. Exciting!
>
> Sooner than I'd have thought, it was almost 1971, and I'd spent the better
> part of the year in Monterey, CA learning (badly) Vietnamese and Mandarin
> Chinese. I was sure I was going to Vietnam to die. I'd dreamt about it, and
> I was very calm about it.
>
> Instead, I was assigned to a U.S. Airbase in Taiwan.  (My closest direct
> superior was in Okinawa. I never even saw him.)
>
> So close...
>
> God has always watched over, and helped, clueless fools like me.