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Charles Plumb was a U.S. 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.
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.
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