11/12/09 - NNHS Newsletter -
The Things We Did Last Summer

“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”

- Celia Thaxter
(29 June 1835 - 25 Aug 1894)

If not, it makes for wonderful fiction and what should be.

A pretty neat story.  I wonder why it has taken 8 years for it to be public!

This is little-known story from the Pentagon on 09/11/2001:

During a visit with a fellow chaplain, who happened to be assigned to the Pentagon, I had a chance to hear a first-hand account of an incident that happened right after Flight 77 hit the Pentagon. The chaplain told me what happened at a daycare center near where the impact occurred.

"This daycare had many children, including infants who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do; there were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants that would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers.

"Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they needed. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, he ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, 'well, there we are- on our own.' About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 others in tow. Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest started gathering up toddlers. The director and her staff then helped them take all the children out of the center and down toward the park near the Potomac and the Pentagon.

"Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, the Marines stopped in the park, and then did a fabulous thing- they formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons in the West. Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off. Outside this circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waiting for instructions.

There they remained until the parents could be notified and come get their children."

The NORTHCOM chaplain then said- "I don't think any of us saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men there.'' I must say- there wasn't a dry eye in the room. The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted - could we expect any less from them?? It was one of the most touching stories from the Pentagon I've EVER heard.

"Remember Ronald Reagan's great compliment: 'Most of us wonder if our lives made any difference. Marines don't have that problem.' "

   Thank you, Wayne Honey, I like that story, too!

   

     

This link did not work for me, but the issue is the "L" is missing from the URL.

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/11-11-09-NNHS-Cliff-Holbrook.htm

That may be why the page could not be found.

Copying and pasting will do that sometimes!!!

As for me, I "Phat-Phinger" the keyboard.

Mizpah,
Joe Madagan

   Yes, wasn't THAT a wondrously timely blooper of mine?!?

   Mr. Holbrook's significantly updated Memorial Newsletter is actually available here:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/11-11-09-NNHS-Cliff-Holbrook.html

   Thanks, Adonis!

I haven't received a newsletter e-mail for about three weeks now. I wonder if you would check to make sure I am still on the mailing list. If the problem is on my end, I am not sure how. I am not having any problem receiving anything else (including a lot of spam). The newsletter e-mails are not coming to my spam folder, they just aren't getting to me at all. Fortunately I am still able to read them by visiting the NNHS website and clicking on 2009 newsletters.

By the way, thanks for       Paul's (Harty - Bardolph HS, , IL - '61 - of IL) entry about the Iwo Jima memorial. I got goosebumps reading it.

Thanks,
Sydney Dearing
syd20@tds.net

   Oh, Sydney, how can this be?!? Those email announcement drive me so crazy! I checked and double-checked, and your name was there just as always. I'm glad you found the other route still worked for you - as it does for a great many of our "non-subscribing  readers"!  Thanks for letting me know!

   I switched your name from the "A" list to the "B" list, just to see if that would make a difference - but it really shouldn't have any bearing!