While my son was on board the Navy carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON, the air wing was busy with training missions.
After talking to a pilot, one air-traffic controller accidentally left his microphone on and remarked to a nearby buddy, "That guy sounded just like Elmer Fudd."
The airwaves got strangely quiet as everyone listened, realizing that the pilot had also heard the comment. After about ten seconds, the pilot broke the silence by announcing,
"Be vewy, vewy quiet. We are hunting submawenes."
"We must find a way to unite what Jesus never divided - the sacred and the secular, spirit and matter, the divine and the common." -Leonard Sweet
It's not easy caring for elderly parents and relatives, and if you are doing so this may not be the easiest video to watch. But, it is a great reminder that like little children, we only have our elderly parents for a short while and that during that time we can imitate the sacrifice they made for us - or even make the sacrifice we wish they had.
A schoolteacher was given a ticket for driving through a red light.
When she appeared in traffic court, she asked the judge for immediate attention to her case as she was due to be back in class.
The judge looked at her sternly and said:
"So you're a schoolteacher. I am about to realize a lifelong ambition. You sit down at that table over there and write 'I went through a stop sign.' FIVE HUNDRED TIMES!"
"It is one thing to believe in God, but it is quite another thing to trust God." -Timothy Keller
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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