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Time
to Think
Bill
Walker
I think it is best to take a little time to
think about something before the great leap. It is a little late to
think about the pit falls of the great leap while falling in mid air.
We see this about every day, also history is chuck full of fool deals
that cost lots.
I remember an old fellow telling about major
repairs on cars. He said best after putting the thing back together,
to walk away from it and think first if every thing is just right,
before telling the owner to pick it up. Have you forgot a 2 dollar
part, maybe you thought it wasn't needed, but that 2 dollar part might
save a lot of money down the road. Don't laugh, I know first hand, I
was the owner. The fellow said he didn't think a 2 dollar part was
needed, just use the old hose. The old hose couldn't take the heat,
and blew, costing a whole new engine.
It would be best before making a great leap to
see if the leap is needed. Wars is one thing I am thinking about. It
is very easy to make the great leap into a war over something, hard to
stop the leap in mid air. It would have been much easier to have
called Joe up, and said we have a problem. Let us set down together
and reason things out. I think I have seen that ONE time in my walk on
this earth. I remember the days of the Cuban deal. We was one blink
of an eye lid of war. Men of two countries talked, we side stepped
what have maybe been a major war.
I also remember what a man said back in the
Korean War. President Harry Truman was having a problem with a
certain general. The certain general though he should be president.
We have had that before in American History. I think President
Lincoln had a few generals that thought any one of them should have
been president. One even ran for the office, didn't get any where, but
never the less he tried making the great leap.
Anyways President Truman asked a man what he
thought should be done? Truman was all set on removing the said
general. General Marshall, said no, let him have the papers and facts
of the case, let him study the case close, over night. The next
morning General Marshall was at the door of the office of president.
The words was' "FIRE HIM, should have been done long ago." Now there
was a few other words said. I think some of the Dollies are not use to
those kind of words, so they will if would like to know them, go buy
General Marshall's book. General Marshall took the facts, the papers
home, read them, and did some thinking. He thought things out before
telling the President to make the great leap.
Remember this, after you make the great leap,
there is one thing about it. Got to live with it, can't change mind
and turn in mid air, and go back. The time to think is before the
great leap.
Tinker and Poo;
The Boys Write
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-35741-5
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