
I snatched my iPhone out of my pocket and grabbed this picture. You can see the spider in the foreground and the moon high in the sky above the trees.
When Autumn Came | ||
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz Translated by Naomi Lazard | ||
This is the way that autumn came to the trees: |
I stepped out onto the back deck to see if I could figure out where the sound came from but the emergency vehicle had already passed or reached its destination because I could no longer hear it.
But I move through my morning routine with an uneasy feeling. When I left for work sometime later, I came upon several emergency vehicles about a mile from our house.
A white van was sitting in the middle of the road and the front was horribly damaged.
“This cannot be good,” I though to myself. I’m not a gawker so I heeded to the instructions of the crew working the scene and weaved through the wreckage and onto work.
Later that day, my niece Samantha called to say that Brandy Savage, a girl who had been on the dance line at Dora back in 2006, had been killed in the wreck. My heart sank.
I did not know Brandy personally, but I’ve heard a great deal since Thursday. My heart goes out to Brandy’s family and her fiancé.WISDOM - FROM THE MANUAL
"If the enemy is in range, so are you."
Infantry Journal
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"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never
encountered automatic weapons."
General MacArthur
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"You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me."
U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt.
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"Tracers work both
ways."
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"Five second fuses only last three seconds."
Infantry Journal
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"Any ship can be a minesweeper...Once."
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"Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do."
Unknown Marine Recruit
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Clean it, if it's Dirty. Oil it, if it Squeaks.
But: Don't Screw with it, if it Works!
USAF Electronic Technician
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"If you see a bomb technician running, keep up with him."
USAF - Ammo Troop
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"Yea, Though I Fly Through the
For I am at 80,000 Feet
and Climbing."
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"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3."
Paul F. Crickmore ( test pilot )
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A Navigator's Definition of Latitude & Longitude:
Latitude is where we are lost.
Longitude is how long we've been lost there!
USAF Navi-guesser
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"The
only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."
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"If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a
helicopter -- However, it's probably unsafe in any case "
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"When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have
enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash."
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"What is the similarity between air traffic controllers
and pilots?
If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies;
If ATC screws up, .... The pilot dies."
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The three most common expressions (or famous last words), in aviation are:
"Why is it doing that?"
"Where are we?" and
"Oh CRAP!"
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" Airspeed, altitude and brains.
Two out of three are needed to successfully complete the
flight."
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"Mankind has a perfect record in aviation.
We never left one up there!"
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"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a
person on the ground who is incapable of understanding or doing
anything about it."
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"The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just
barely
kill you."
- Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)
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"There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime."
- Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970
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"If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to."
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"You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes
FULL
power to taxi to the terminal."
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As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn
off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives;
the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks, "What happened?" The
pilot's reply: "I don't know, I just got here myself!"