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In Their Honor: Pause at 3 P.M.
Today, at 3:00 P.M., people will be pausing for a silent moment to honor those who have lost their lives in military service. Amtrack trains will blow their whistles in tribute. And others will find a way to honor our lost military men and women who died in service to our country and to us.
3:00 P.M. Join in. It’s the least we can do.
Proposed New Saying for the Post Office
There needs to be an addition to the inscription on the General Post Office on 8th Ave. and 33rd St. in New York City (no, it isn’t the Postal Service’s motto–they don’t have one). Keep what’s there but add four words so that it would read, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor White House security stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” It’s the least we can do to honor the spirit of 61-year-old Florida mailman and gyro-copter pilot Douglas Mark Hughes.
Thursday Thought on Friday
OK. I’m human. I get mixed up on my days. Yesterday I thought was Wednesday, therefore, no Thursday Thought. Please allow me to get back on track today, which my husband assures me actually is Friday. Anyway, I think I’ve found an excuse:
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.” (George Bernard Shaw)
The Arizona, Veterans, and Remembering
I have vivid memories of my experience in visiting the Arizona Memorial in Hawaii. The visit began with a film showing the horrors of the attack on Pearl Harbor. My eyes blurred with tears. Then there was the choppy boat trip to the monument, a short distance from other coffin-ships which suffered the same fate as the Arizona. So many names filled the wall behind the altar-like steps, and the hush of the crowd echoed the silent voices trapped deep beneath us. Little was said on the trip back to land, as we all found ourselves deep in thought.
This Veterans Day I’m thinking the Canadians are right to call it “Remembrance Day.” It’s important to remember and honor our veterans, those who fought for our way of life. It’s even more important to remember that we should work toward a time when the reason for such occasions is only a bad memory.
Hug a veteran. Pray for peace.
Thoughtful Thursday: Life’s Purpose is not Happiness
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson