Reflections and other comments

[Judy Harder]

I wasn't sure where to post this, and wanted all to see it and refresh their minds on what the USA was built on.
No, not poltical/nor religion, just good sense and a nice item to share. Teresa can move it if it is right and thats ok.
I love to share, and altho this may have been on the forum several years ago, it still fits us today!


In God we trust.


   
       Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial
in Hawaii every  thirty minutes.

          We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty
minutes.   I went into a small gift shop to kill time.

          In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled,
"Reflections on Pearl  Harbor" by Admiral Chester Nimitz.

  Sunday,  December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was
attending a concert in Washington D.C.
He was paged and told there was a phone call for him.

  When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt . He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander
of the Pacific Fleet.


Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the
Pacific Fleet.  He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941.
There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat--you would have
thought the Japanese had already won the war.
 
On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of
the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the
waters every where you  looked.

As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman
of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after
seeing all this destruction?"

Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the
sound of his voice.  Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the
biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was
taking care of America .  Which do you think it was?"
Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked,
"What do you mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest
mistakes an attack force ever made?"

Nimitz explained:  Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on
Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of  those ships
were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea
and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of  3,800.

Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those
battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking
those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks
opposite those ships.

If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow
everyone of  those ships to America to be repaired.  As it is
now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug
can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them
repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to
America . And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those
ships.

Mistake number three:  Every drop of  fuel in the Pacific
theater of war is on top of the ground in storage tanks five
miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks
and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the
biggest mistakes an attack force could make, or God was taking
care of America .
 
I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. It is still an inspiration as I
reflect upon it. In jest, I might suggest that because Admiral Nimitz was a
Texan, born and raised in Fredricksburg , Texas -- he was a born
optimist.

 
  But anyway you look at it--Admiral Nimitz was able to see a
silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone
else saw only despair and defeatism.  President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately needed a leader that could see silver
linings in the midst of the clouds of dejection, despair and
defeat.


There is a reason that our national motto is, "IN GOD WE TRUST."
God bless the USA

[Judy Harder]

Here's your chuckle for today! Hope it tickles your funny bone.

The Psychiatrist& The Proctologist.
Best friends graduated from medicalschool at the same time and decided that,
in spite of two differentspecialties, they would open a practice together to share
office space andpersonnel.
Dr. Smith was the psychiatrist and Dr. Jones was the proctologist.They put up a sign reading:
"Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones:Hysterias and Posteriors".
The town council was livid and insisted they change it.
So, the docs changed it to read: "Schizoids and Hemorrhoids".
This was also not acceptable, so they again changed the sign.
"Catatonics and High Colonics" - No go.
Next, they tried "Manic Depressives and Anal Retentives" - thumbs down again.
Then came "Minds and Behinds" - still nogood.
Another attempt resulted in "Lost Souls and Butt Holes" - unacceptable again!
So they tried "Analysis and Anal Cysts" - not a chance.
"Nuts and Butts" - no way.
"Freaks and Cheeks" - still nogood.
"Loons and Moons" - forget it.
Almost at their wit's end, the docsfinally came up with:
"Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones - Specializing in Odds and Ends".
Everyone loved it.