Great Story In Forbes

[cwniles 0]

First, I never post here but felt this little gem of a story would be appreciated by you motley lot.

If this should be posted elsewhere, feel free to move, modify or delete as you see fit. I did search and believe this has not been posted yet.

The latest Forbes has a nice little write up that concerns a fighter pilot from the 60's who was shot down and spent 6 years as a POW and his run in with the person who packed the parachute he was wearing on that fateful last mission.

I am tempted to copy and paste as it is quite a short writeup (giving proper credit to the writer(s) and publisher of course) as internet articles tend to not hang around forever, but I frankly am not sure if that violates some sort of policy or whatever so for now I will just link to it and if someone else wants to copy and paste, knock yerself out.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karlmoore/2012/07/18/the-parachute-packer-the-best-story-i-have-ever-heard/

[mjosparky 4]

This is the same guy?

Sparky

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

[cwniles 0]

Thats him. Thanks for the doc, the same basic story I linked to but worded slightly differently and expanded. I had no knowledge of this prior to stumbling across the Forbes article earlier today.

For those that don't click through on one or the other, in a nutshell, there are a number of ways to interpret and apply the following statement to your everyday life......(though the obvious interpretation should be rather applicable to most readers here.)

Go and find your packer and thank them, right now.

[dthames 0]

I haved always been grateful for our combat veterans. On the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Public Television aired a 3 hour documentary made by a WWII fighter pilot. It touched me and changed my thinking in a way I didn’t think possible. My VHS PBS broadcast recording of the show was poor and after a few years I purchased the DVD. It is a story of one man's part in a very large battle, starting on D-Day for this pilot.

You can see some of his story at this web site but it is far short of what the video contains.

A salute to our combat veterans and their families.

http://quentinaanenson.com/

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[robinheid 0]

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Thats him. Thanks for the doc, the same basic story I linked to but worded slightly differently and expanded. I had no knowledge of this prior to stumbling across the Forbes article earlier today.

For those that don't click through on one or the other, in a nutshell, there are a number of ways to interpret and apply the following statement to your everyday life......(though the obvious interpretation should be rather applicable to most readers here.)

Go and find your packer and thank them, right now.

LOL... one of my favorite "thank your packer" moments was during the People's Choice awards a few years back when Jennifer Love Hewitt won for something, and the first people she thanked was craft services (the people with the food and drink!) because she said she could never make it through a day without them. To date, she is the only person I've ever seen who thanked craft services or any of the other "packers" who make it possible for people such as herself to do what they do.

Thanks for sharing a great story, OP.

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