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This is a 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, here we are - on our own.' But in about
2 minutes the Marine returned with 40 other Marines 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 a park on the Potomac near 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 Old 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 Chaplain then said, "I don't think any of us saw or heard of
this on any of the news stories of the day. It was just an
incredible story of those Marines responding willingly and quickly
to a tactical problem that presented itself. - But would we have
expected any less of them?"
Remember Ronald Reagan's great compliment: "Most of us wonder if
our lives can make any difference. Marines don't have that problem."
Semper Fi ....
An old
Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life
"A fight is
going on inside me," he said to the boy.
"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed,
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
false pride, superiority, and ego."
He continued,
"The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity,
humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy,generosity,truth,
compassion, and faith
.
The same fight
is going on inside you -
and inside every other person, too."
The grandson
thought about it for a minute and then
asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old
Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
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