Ernest,
I think that story captures the true meaning of the holidays.  As I was reading, I think a tear fell....from laughing!!

Happy Holidays to all here on the forum.

Bryan Winbery


--- On Wed, 12/24/08, Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com> wrote:

From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 2:58 PM
Ed Anderson wrote:
>
> Before my grandchildren descend on this household
later today I just
> want to take the opportunity, while I have it, to wish
all my “Rotary”
> friends a Great Holiday. I truly enjoy our
“conversations”. Though
> there are a number of you I have not personally met
– yet, I think
> truly kindred spirits indeed are those who undertake
this endeavor.
>
I would like to wish everyone the merriest of Christmases,
and to that
end I would like to pass along this heat-warming internet
story that was
recently passed on to me. May you always land heads-up and
wheels down.


In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after
graduating from
Northwestern University.

On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull
elephant
standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant
seemed distressed,
so Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one
knee,
inspected the elephant’s foot, and found a large piece of
wood deeply
embedded in it.

As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the
wood out with
his knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its
foot. The
elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious
look on its
face, stared at him for several tense moments.

Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being
trampled.
Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and
walked away. Peter
never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago
Zoo with his
teenage son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one
of the
creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and
his son,
Cameron, were standing. The large bull elephant stared at
Peter lifted
its front foot off the ground and then put it down. The
elephant did
that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while
staring at the man.

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help
wondering if
this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his courage,
climbed over
the railing, and made his way into the enclosure. He walked
right up to
the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant
trumpeted again,
wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed him
against the
railing, killing him instantly.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.



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