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flyboy707   01-16-2005, 06:41 PM
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So, there I was at a very small airport (currently operated by the US military for Tsunami relief) in Thailand getting some fuel for my plane before the return flight across the Pacific to my base in Oklahoma. As I strolled around the "complex" of US military, international relief workers etc, I happened across an area of relief supplies being re-boxed for distribution. I was taken aback by the sheer numbers of supplies of water, food, clothing etc etc being air-lifted in (24 hours a day by the US military). Suprisingly enough, in addition to the much-needed relief supplies, people across the globe are sending books, magazines, children's books, school books/materials etc. This tent I happened to enter, was the central point for organizing all these books.

I was quickly enlisted by this very nice woman from Stockdale CA to help her move two very large and very, very heavy boxes (as my already tired muscles could attest to). As I put them where she needed them, I happened to glance inside one. Lo and behold, the entire top layer of books were F. PAUL WILSON books; more specifically, RJ books.

Amazing! What a coincidence! Very cool, eh?

[Although, I am not sure how they will help the relief efffort in the destination they were labelled.......it was cool none the less to see them there]

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other that you can boast about it."
Maggers   01-16-2005, 06:49 PM
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Great story, Flyboy, I suspected that was where you might be. Very, very cool indeed. Who knows what help RJ stories will be, but they surely can't hurt!

Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005


Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.

Elwood P. Dowd

jimbow8   01-16-2005, 08:07 PM
#3
Maggers Wrote:Great story, Flyboy, I suspected that was where you might be. Very, very cool indeed. Who knows what help RJ stories will be, but they surely can't hurt!
I don't know. You ever tried to eat a book? That would probably hurt a lot, especially if they are hardcover.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
stacyzinda123   01-16-2005, 08:35 PM
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jimbow8 Wrote:I don't know. You ever tried to eat a book? That would probably hurt a lot, especially if they are hardcover.

That would probably hurt and take forever to eat one! Hopefully they won't be eating them. Do the people speak English where the books were headed?
flyboy707   01-16-2005, 09:09 PM
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stacyzinda123 Wrote:That would probably hurt and take forever to eat one! Hopefully they won't be eating them. Do the people speak English where the books were headed?

Alot of people spoke enough to communicate with us (outside of we military people) where I saw the books, but the places my friends ferrying the supplies on the helicopters were going to places that didn't. I went along for a ride one afternoon and i doon't think they had even seen a non-Asian before.

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other that you can boast about it."
saglaser   01-16-2005, 09:30 PM
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If nothing else, they may at least provide some much-needed diversion for relief workers -- if those workers ever get a chance to read without falling asleep from exhaustion.
Maggers   01-16-2005, 09:32 PM
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jimbow8 Wrote:I don't know. You ever tried to eat a book? That would probably hurt a lot, especially if they are hardcover.



Well, I have always considered myself a bookworm! Big Grin
This post was last modified: 01-17-2005, 02:19 PM by Maggers.

Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005


Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.

Elwood P. Dowd

stacyzinda123   01-16-2005, 09:59 PM
#8
flyboy707 Wrote:I went along for a ride one afternoon and i doon't think they had even seen a non-Asian before.
I'll be you have a lot of interesting stories you could share. I love hearing about places I'm not familiar with in a more natural context. Tourist stories just aren't as interesting as stories from people who have actually interacted with other cultures and stuff.
fpw   01-17-2005, 09:56 AM
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flyboy707 Wrote:As I put them where she needed them, I happened to glance inside one. Lo and behold, the entire top layer of books were F. PAUL WILSON books; more specifically, RJ books.

I hope it wasn't one of the two boxes of author-copy paperbacks I sent out last month. They were earmarked for the guys in Iraq. Things in Thailand may be bad, but I think our boys are more in need of a diversion.

FPW
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Sam   01-17-2005, 02:06 PM
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fpw Wrote:I hope it wasn't one of the two boxes of author-copy paperbacks I sent out last month. They were earmarked for the guys in Iraq. Things in Thailand may be bad, but I think our boys are more in need of a diversion.

A good friend in the 3664th was in Fallujah when the attack took place. He may still be there but that company moves around a lot. About a week ago his wife contacted him to let him know she wants a divorce. Ain't that a kick in the balls? Yeah, he needs a diversion.

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