[meteorite-list] O.T.> Fw: thanks to you

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:55 2004
Message-ID: <20021004160825.65965.qmail_at_web80313.mail.yahoo.com>

The following "heart-lifting" message was sent to me
from someone I don't know and, more importantly, from
an email address that I never received mail from
previously. It contained an attachment which my
Norton Antivirus identified as being the same virus as
described in Art's recent Virus Warning post.

I highly doubt that my email address was in "chuck"s
Address Book, so I find it curious how his virus would
get my address?

WARNING: NEVER open an attachment that has two (2)
file extensions, i.e. "doc.scr"!

I apologize to Art and the List for this kind of Off
Topic message which he has requested "not to be posted
to the List", but I felt this ounce of prevention
would alleviate the many "pounds-worth of cure".

Please consider this as an addendum to his prior post.

Bob V.

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From: "chuck" <cdaster_at_Excite.com>

Subject: Fw: thanks to you
         
> Subject: thanks to you
>
>
> Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam.
After 75 combat
> missions, his plane was destroyed by a
surface-to-air missile.
> Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He
was captured and spent
> 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He
survived the ordeal and now
> lectures on lessons learned from that experience.
>
> One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a
restaurant, a
> man at another table came up and said, "You're
Plumb! You flew jet
> fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty
Hawk. You were shot down!"
> "How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.
"I packed your parachute,"
> the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and
gratitude. The man
> pumped his hand and said, "I guess it worked!"
Plumb assured him, "It sure did. If your chute hadn't
worked, I wouldn't be here today."
>
> Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about
that man. Plumb
> says, "I kept wondering what he might have looked
like in a Navy uniform:
> a white hat, a bib in the back, and bell-bottom
trousers. I wonder how many times
> I might have seen him and not even said 'Good
morning, how are
> you?' or anything because, you see, I was a fighter
pilot and he was just a
> sailor." Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor
had spent on a long
> wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully
weaving the shrouds and
> folding the silks of each chute, holding in his
hands each time the fate of
> someone he didn't know. Now, Plumb asks his
audience, "Who's packing your parachute?"
>
> Everyone has someone who provides what they need to
make it through the
> day. Plumb also points out that he needed many
kinds of parachutes when
> his plane was shot down over enemy territory-he
needed his physical
> parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional
parachute, and his spiritual
> parachute. He called on all these supports before
reaching safety. Sometimes
> in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss
what is really important.
> We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you,
congratulate someone on
> something wonderful that has happened to them, give
a compliment, or just do
> something nice for no reason.
>
> As you go through this week, this month, this year,
recognize people who
> pack your parachute. I am sending you this as my
way of thanking you for
> your part in packing my parachute !!! And I hope you

> will send it on to those who have helped pack yours!
>

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Received on Fri 04 Oct 2002 12:08:25 PM PDT