[Magdalen] Endless war...

[Grace Cangialosi]

LOL, Jim!

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 5:32 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>



-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

Keep Calm and Carry OM.