A FITTING FAREWELL - Just a Minute for Friday 01-16-09

            Hello at the end of the week again –

 

            It’s been a fairly demanding one for us. Barbara is having a stress test done Friday morning… and we’re just glad to come down for a landing – although not as glad as the folks in New York yesterday who were headed for Charlotte on the US Airways plane that used the Hudson River for it’s landing spot. – Great admiration for the pilot who put it down without any fatalities – and by the grace of God, plus good training.     

 

            But I guess it’s one more notch in the gun of convincing those who don’t want to fly that it’s unsafe. I heard one statistic yesterday that I’m unsure of but it sounds about right… Something like 1.5 billion people (about a fourth of the world’s population) fly in commercial flights each recent year – and for two years running there haven’t been any fatal accidents the story says. When you think about that … and compare it to the deaths in motor vehicle accidents just in our own state in the space of one or two years… flying in commercial aircraft is pretty safe. Of course as a private pilot who’s never had an unplanned landing – but then I have retired with a pristine record – I’ve thought it *can* be safe all along. Although in all candor… one does have to really pay attention. You can’t just pull over to the side of the road always when something goes amiss… like running over a flock of geese.

           

            At the same time – the odds of getting hit by a meteorite are pretty low also – but I suppose it happens!

 

            President Bush made good use of the time and audience he had last evening for departing remarks. I’m glad – and I wish him well. I have grown increasingly tired of the Bush bashers – and hope we can now give them all dishonorable discharge. Let’s move on.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

A FITTING FAREWELL

Just A Minute – The President’s fitting departure last night echoed another George’s thoughts printed in a New York newspaper, of his day, and seeking providential leadership by his successor.

Turning down a third term as President, George Washington said: “The unity of Government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity (sic)at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty, which you so highly prize.”

It’s a different city with vastly altered circumstances where the 43^rd President graciously passed the torch to the President-elect with a prayer for the Nation at this historical point of progress. Now it is up to America’s citizens to pray God will indeed bless America with the peace and tranquility the first President sought so America might continue to signal freedom, “under God” as our goal in this land.

May the Lord endow us all with that vision and prayer.

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