| LIFE Thought for the Day
- Thread starter It Takes Eleven
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven with courageous impatience.
- Hyman G. Rickover
- Hyman G. Rickover
TerryP
Staff
The seven rules of Rickover.
Amazing story. Here's a trivia question - From what state did the first atomic submarine reactor operate?
TerryP
Staff
It was Groten, right? CN. Before I was born if I recall correctly...late '50's. Wilkinson is hitting me in the head...but I think that was a book I read years ago.
It was a trick question. The first reactor for a nuclear sub was operated near Atomic City, Idaho.
TerryP
Staff
Something I read, somewhere, sometime, on a some subject. My first cousin, Mike, was stationed there as was his brother for a few years. My gut tells me it was something I read while visiting.
His hallway is one of the most bizarre things I've seen. He's got nine or so accommodations that read...happened , on this date __ for this service __. All blank because of some sub duty.
I could not disappear, under the water, for months at a time. I have trouble breathing thinking about the idea...
This book on the Cold War I'm reading, Who Can Hold the Sea, includes a number of chapters on the hot war in Korea. I was forgetful or ignorant on much of the action. My Korean War primer was from M*A*S*H, and with this book and a couple of other things, it's been brought back around to me. My wife just retired from Chick-fil-A, and she had some old guys visit one of the stores every Tuesday, for years. One was a rocket scientist, another an aeronautical engineer, another a state senator, several others with really interesting backgrounds, and then there's the 97 year old Blue Angel. This guy was in the same squadron with Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner, was good friends with the Browns, but when the Cold War cooked off he was sent to the Med and Brown/Hudner went to Korea on the Leyte. The book and movie, Devotion, covers their story. I got to sit in on an early screening of the movie at the gentlemen's retirement home. Jesse Brown's daughter still comes to visit him. My Tuesdays are really busy, but I got the opportunity to sit with them a couple of times. It's hard to sit still around these guys, just so impressive.
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XXL TideFan
"How can one feel truly comforted if he does not believe in God and in the true eternal life after death? When man grasps the deeper meaning of this true life, stress goes away, divine consolation comes, and he is healed." -St. Paisios
Russia was a woman of the streets and whether her dress was new, or just the old one patched, it was certainly the same whore underneath. America intended to drive her off her present “beat” into the back streets.
- Eisenhower
- Eisenhower
If he had lived, he was going on in Russia to fight them.
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XXL TideFan
There is no victory without opposition - Adrian Rogers
Never in the post-war era was American prestige higher than in the aftermath of Suez. Small nations could scarcely believe the United States would support Egypt, a Third World country, in a fight against two of America's oldest allies, nor that it would come to the aid of a Muslim state resisting Israeli aggression. Never has there been such a tremendous acclaim for the president's policy. It has been absolutely spectacular.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge
