---------------------------------------------------------- Commander-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 11/10/03: 4 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 12:16 AM - WLAS... (Matt Dralle) 2. 10:52 AM - Website (Andrew & Bridget Watson) 3. 08:21 PM - Leave (Barry Hancock) 4. 11:42 PM - Re: Leave (John Vormbaum) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:16:16 AM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: Commander-List: WLAS... --> Commander-List message posted by: Matt Dralle Dear Listers, Below are some of the nice things people have been saying about the Lists in that little message box on the Contribution form! Thank you to everyone that has made a Contribution thus far and for all the great feedback! Please know that I really appreciate the comments and support!! 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Matt G Dralle | Matronics | PO Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551 925-606-1001 V | 925-606-6281 F | dralle@matronics.com Email http://www.matronics.com/ WWW | Featuring Products For Aircraft ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 10:52:46 AM PST US From: Andrew & Bridget Watson Subject: Commander-List: Website --> Commander-List message posted by: Andrew & Bridget Watson Hi folks, The website for my book is up and running. As yet there is no release date for the book, but I believe it will be available some time early next year. Thanks to the TCFG folks for allowing me to use some of their pictures and also to Jim Addington for his picture of his beautiful 500A. The website is www.JoshStaffordBooks.com - let me know what you think, please. Best regards, Andrew. ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 08:21:41 PM PST US Subject: Commander-List: Leave From: Barry Hancock --> Commander-List message posted by: Barry Hancock From: Barry Hancock Subject: Leave This is awesome....perhaps the left ought to open their eyes.... Dear Friends and Family, I hope that you will spare me a few minutes of your time to tell you about something that I saw on Monday, October 27. I had been attending a conference in Annapolis and was coming home on Sunday. As you may recall, Los Angeles International Airport was closed on Sunday, October 26, because of the fires that affected air traffic control. Accordingly, my flight, and many others, were canceled and I wound up spending a night in Baltimore. My story begins the next day. When I went to check in at the United counter Monday morning I saw a lot of soldiers home from Iraq. Most were very young and all had on their desert camouflage uniforms. This was as change from earlier, when they had to buy civilian clothes in Kuwait to fly home. It was a visible reminder that we are in a war. It probably was pretty close to what train terminals were like in World War II. Many people were stopping the troops to talk to them, asking them questions in the Starbucks line or just saying "Welcome Home." In addition to all the flights that had been canceled on Sunday, the weather was terrible in Baltimore and the flights were backed up. So, there were a lot of unhappy people in the terminal trying to get home, but nobody that I saw gave the soldiers a bad time. By the afternoon, one plane to Denver had been delayed several hours. United personnel kept asking for volunteers to give up their seats and take another flight. They weren't getting many takers. Finally, a United spokeswoman got on the PA and said this, "Folks. As you can see, there are a lot of soldiers in the waiting area. They only have 14 days of leave and we're trying to get them where they need to go without spending any more time in an airport then they have to. We sold them all tickets, knowing we would oversell the flight. If we can, we want to get them all on this flight. We want all the soldiers to know that we respect what you're doing, we are here for you and we love you." At that, the entire terminal of cranky, tired, travel-weary people, a cross-section of America, broke into sustained and heartfelt applause. The soldiers looked surprised and very modest. Most of them just looked at their boots. Many of us were wiping away tears. And, yes, people lined up to take the later flight and all the soldiers went to Denver on that flight. That little moment made me proud to be an American, and also told me why we will win this war. If you want to send my little story on to your friends and family, feel free. This is not some urban legend. I was there, I was part of it, I saw it happen. Will Ross, Administrative Judge United States Department of Defense This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm From Beethoven to the Rolling Stones, your favorite music is always playing on MSN Radio Plus. No ads, no talk. Trial month FREE! Barry Hancock Director of Operations Red Stars, Inc. 949.300.5510 www.allredstar.com "Communism - Lousy Politics, Great Airplanes" ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 11:42:56 PM PST US From: "John Vormbaum" Subject: Re: Commander-List: Leave --> Commander-List message posted by: "John Vormbaum" COOL! Hey...I love checking the "urban myth" page and finding out that this is true: http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/onleave.asp /John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Hancock" Subject: Commander-List: Leave > --> Commander-List message posted by: Barry Hancock > > From: Barry Hancock > Date: Mon Nov 10, 2003 08:19:10 PM US/Pacific > To: Flying, Baby > Subject: Leave > > This is awesome....perhaps the left ought to open their eyes.... > > Dear Friends and Family, I hope that you will spare me a few minutes of > your > time to tell you about something that I saw on Monday, October 27. I had > been > attending a conference in Annapolis and was coming home on Sunday. As > you may > recall, Los Angeles International Airport was closed on Sunday, October > 26, > because of the fires that affected air traffic control. Accordingly, my > flight, > and many others, were canceled and I wound up spending a night in > Baltimore. > > My story begins the next day. When I went to check in at the United > counter > Monday morning I saw a lot of soldiers home from Iraq. Most were very > young and > all had on their desert camouflage uniforms. This was as change from > earlier, > when they had to buy civilian clothes in Kuwait to fly home. It was a > visible > reminder that we are in a war. It probably was pretty close to what train > terminals were like in World War II. > > Many people were stopping the troops to talk to them, asking them > questions > in the Starbucks line or just saying "Welcome Home." In addition to all > the > flights that had been canceled on Sunday, the weather was terrible in > Baltimore > and the flights were backed up. So, there were a lot of unhappy people > in the > terminal trying to get home, but nobody that I saw gave the soldiers a > bad > time. > > By the afternoon, one plane to Denver had been delayed several hours. > United > personnel kept asking for volunteers to give up their seats and take > another > flight. They weren't getting many takers. Finally, a United spokeswoman > got on > the PA and said this, "Folks. As you can see, there are a lot of > soldiers in > the waiting area. They only have 14 days of leave and we're trying to > get them > where they need to go without spending any more time in an airport then > they > have to. We sold them all tickets, knowing we would oversell the flight. > If we > can, we want to get them all on this flight. We want all the soldiers to > know > that we respect what you're doing, we are here for you and we love you." > > At that, the entire terminal of cranky, tired, travel-weary people, a > cross-section of America, broke into sustained and heartfelt applause. > The soldiers > looked surprised and very modest. Most of them just looked at their > boots. Many > of us were wiping away tears. > > And, yes, people lined up to take the later flight and all the soldiers > went > to Denver on that flight. That little moment made me proud to be an > American, > and also told me why we will win this war. > > If you want to send my little story on to your friends and family, feel > free. > This is not some urban legend. I was there, I was part of it, I saw it > happen. > > Will Ross, Administrative Judge United States Department of Defense > > This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from HREF="http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm"> > http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm > > > From Beethoven to the Rolling Stones, your favorite music is always > playing on MSN Radio Plus. No ads, no talk. Trial month FREE! > > > Barry Hancock > Director of Operations > Red Stars, Inc. > 949.300.5510 > www.allredstar.com > "Communism - Lousy Politics, Great Airplanes" > >