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He will have to have major surgery (8 hours plus) to remove the esophagus and make a new one by pulling and stretching his stomach. We don't know yet if any chemo or radiation will be done before or after surgery. The test to determine this will be done next Thursday.

Happy Valentine Birthday tomorrow to

Jimmy Parker ('62) of VA AND My Niece,

Renee Dick Romulus (Booker T. Washington HS - '80) of Northern VA!

Happy Birthday this week to:
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Bill Sawyer ('57) - 1939 (deceased 05/16/06) AND Brooks Bloxom ('64) of NC;

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Bobby Norris ('62) of VA AND Linda Lane Lane ('64) of VA AND Jamey Douglas Bacon ('66) of VA;

From Jamey Douglas Bacon ('66) of VA - 02/12/09 - "Maddie and Brian - SON AND GRANDS":

From David Whitley ('67) of VA - 02/12/09 - "Gender-Specific Driving Etiquette":

Gender-Specific Driving Etiquette

A woman is driving at night on a narrow road .. At the same time, a man is driving in the opposite direction on that same road.

When they narrowly pass each other, the woman rolls down her window and loudly yells, 'HORSE!' Immediately, the man shouts back, 'Witch!'

The man laughs. He is proud to have reacted so quickly to the shouting woman and takes the next turn in the road, maintaining his speed.

From Eric Huffstutler (Bethel HS - '75) of VA - 02/12/09 - "S.S. United States":

The SS United States Foundation is a non-profit group that has been on top of every aspect of the future of this monument but now needs your help to avoid loosing it forever. Please contact any and all branches of government local, state, and national to voice your opinion and get newspapers, magazines, and television involved.

YIKESARONI!!! How can this be?!? Thanks for the alert, Eric! I'm sure we'll all try to do what we can to help!

Hi Carol,

I've been sharing a really neat website with my friends and thought someone on your website may benefit from it as well. I recently needed to take a software course and didn't want to spend a fortune or have it take forever. I found a site at www.vtc.com that offers hundreds of video classes on all kinds of subject matter pertaining to the computer. Here is the really neat part about this. You subscribe for a month and it cost $30 which entitles you to take as many of the courses as you desire. If you complete a course you can receive a certificate showing you took it, the date and the name of the course. Things like Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point plus website development software like Dream Weaver. If you go to the site they let you see a sample of some of the courses. It is a very easy way to learn as you don't have do any reading, just sit there and watch the video.

Just thought this just may be the thing someone reading this may find useful especially if they are thinking about finding a job or just wanting to brush up a bit on their software skills in the spare time.

F.A. Saunders, Can't Crush A Crabber '64 (although the NNHS 64 basketball team sure tried that year and came real close)

There is a lot of junk on YouTube, but now and then, something really impressive comes along.

If you have one platelet of Scottish blood in you, then I defy you to watch these videos and not have a tear in your eye.

If one Scottish piper is good, then imagine a thousand Scottish pipers, all marching right at you, playing "Scotland The Brave".

Two videos of the same event. Pick your favorite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGjJ3fUFeDA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0GGUElB-Mw&feature=related

WOWZERONI!!! I myself am Scottish (well, as well as Welsh, English, Irish, Swiss, German, French Huguenot, Dutch, and Algonquian), and I certainly didn't make it through dry-eyed! Thanks so much, Brown Eyes!

Ever dreamt of giving a gift which the recipient would gladly receive and eternally appreciate, regardless of their cultural experience, ethnic origin or religious classification?

One that the babe, teen, middle aged and old all eternally desire. A gift you could give whether you are rich or poor, intimately acquainted with or totally unfamiliar to the one whose heart you seek to bring delight to?

A gift whose waters gush forth as an elixir of joy, peace and perpetual youth. One that costs you nothing yet is the most expensive, rare and precious commodity in all the world. So much so that men traverse the five continents of the globe in their quest to find this priceless gem.

Philosophers are at pains to adequately describe it. Babies cannot live without it's comforting reassuring touch. Men and women survive longer without food or water than without this vital nutrient. Hardened criminals are transformed into gentle pussy cats by its effective, life changing power. The rich would give all they possess if they can its succulent taste enjoy and the sick are by its curative powers healed.

This most complete of all gifts is LOVE. Love is the greatest energy in the universe. The greatest revelation comes when we realize that God is love. It is not what He has or does it is who He is.

Since God is love, all love must come from Him. And if it is love it must not only represent Him but it must also look like Him. When we say to someone, "I love you.", we are actually saying to that individual, "Today I will be like God towards you, all that He is and expresses I will be, all that He is not, will not be in my thoughts or actions towards you."

Many times when we say we love an individual we do not really mean it, because we do not understand it. For example when a singer stands before her adoring fans and says to them, "I love you, I love you all." with tear filled eyes, what she is really saying is, "You give me such a thrill. I am ecstatic about your response to my singing."

When the young man says to the the girl, "I love you." he is really saying: "I would like to have sex with you, because I believe you will satisfy my urge and make me the pride of my friends." When his partner says to him, "I love you," she really means, "I enjoy how it feels to be seen with you. I admire the clothes you wear, the car you drive and I am excited about the future you can give me."

When we speak about love we are usually speaking about what the person can do for us, it is self centered, it is about receiving or giving to receive. If after much giving there is no receiving then we stop loving. When God speaks about love He has only one thing in mind - giving. He is not giving so that He can receive or be thought of as kind. He is simply doing what love does. He is only being what He can't help but be. He gives for the purpose of benefiting the person, no other reason, it is pure love.

The only thing that true love wants from you is for you to be the best that you can be. Therefore, it is impossible to 'fall out of love', because we cannot 'fall in love'. The acts of 'falling in and out of love' is based on conditionality - certain conditions have to be met before a person can receive 'love' and those conditions have to be maintained in order for the person to 'stay in love'. Love, true love since it does not seek anything for itself, is not based on the worthiness of the individual to receive love and so there is nothing they can do to not merit that love - It is unconditional.

The greatest gift we can give someone is to love them truly. True love is not judgmental, it is liberating, it is healing, it is limitless in its forgiveness and it has the power to be transformational.

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DO MEN REMEMBER ANNIVERSARIES?

A woman awoke during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed.

She put on her dressing gown and went downstairs to look for him.

She found him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appeared to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall.

She watched as he wiped a tear from his eye and took a sip of his coffee.

'What's the matter, dear?' she whispered as she stepped into the room, 'Why are you down here at this time of night?'

The husband looked up from his coffee, 'I am just remembering when we first met 20 years ago and started dating. You were only 16. Do you remember back then?' he asked solemnly.

The wife was touched to tears thinking that her husband was so caring, so sensitive.

'Yes, I do,' she replied.

The husband paused. The words were not coming easily.

'Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car?'

'Yes, I remember!' said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him.

The husband continued. 'Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, 'Either you marry my daughter, or I will send you to jail for 20 years?'

'I remember that too' she replied softly.

He wiped another tear from his cheek and said...

'I would have been released today.'

			WOWZERS!!! Thanks, Jamey, what a beautiful family you have! When did Maddie grow up?!? Sorry I missed your call the other night. I'll try to reach you tonight. I've grown totally unaccustomed to having to schedule and time my calls - EEK!!!!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
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Men never listen, and when they do, they don't understand one word a woman says. Thanks, Gorgeous!

		I am hoping you can post a plea to those on the NNHS website concerning the S.S. United States which was built at Newport News Shipbuilding in 1952. During the age of grand ocean travel, few original specimens remain today and the SS United States was the Blue Ribbon Trophy holder (and still is) for the fastest liner to cross the Atlantic. It was retired in 1969, been shuffled from owner to owner and pier to pier until where it currently sits at Pier 82 in Philadelphia today. In 1999 the ship was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places but this is in name only and can not protect the ship.
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