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#38 , "Who’s Packing your Parachute"

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  Who’s Packing your Parachute   Charles Plumb was a US Navy Jet Pilot in Vietnam. After several combat missions, one day, his plane was destroyed by a Surface to air missile. Plumb Ejected and parachuted in the enemy's hands, and after six years of captivity, he was released. He shared his experiences. “…. I was a Fighter Pilot, and he was just a sailor.”                One day When Plumb and his was sitting in a restaurant, a man came to their table and said, “You ‘re Plumb, whose aircraft Kitty Hawk was shot down. “                “How on the earth do you know this?” 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.”    ...

#37 : #Small and Big

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  Big and Small   Ramayana Stories have such deep insight, sharing one of the insights below. From the incident, the Monkeys were making the bridge over sea to go to Lanka to fight with Ravana. Rama asked his army to build the bridge over the sea. Monkeys pulled the rocks and stones from mountains and started making the bridge. It was a tedious and challenging task; thousands of monkeys were on the job. Rama was blissful seeing the effort and love for him which made them do this.                One day Rama saw little Squirrel carrying small pebbles in her mouth and dropping it onto the sea. As Monkeys were holding big stones, little Squirrel was dragging small pebbles and dropping them onto the sea, little Squirrel was coming in between the path, and monkeys had to take care so that they didn’t step on the little Squirrel. One of Monkey shouted in his booming voice,” hey little thing, you are coming o...