You are familiar with the recent crisis in Europe due to the ash
> fallout that grounded the entire airways in & out of Europe.
> Well, yesterday , a patient of mine told me how she had got back from London...
> She was in London on business & while she had people to stay with, there
> was absolutely no way of getting back to Israel for the up coming
> Independence Day & Memorial Day holidays,(Monday & Tuesday)
> Her husband's boss also happened to be stuck in London & when he
> informed his boss of his wife's similar plight, the boss (an owner of a massive insurance company) told his employer that the wife should meet up with his party & he would organise something.
> They met up & travelled via train to the ferry, crossed the channel to France, hired 2 buses, (there were by now 90 Israelis) & started to make their way to Marseilles, which was the only airport still open. They travelled non stop through the night & at the crack of dawn,
> in pitch darkness, at some road side truck driver's pullover, they
> stopped. All got out the buses, & had a memorial service for Israel's fallen soldiers & police who died in action during the 62 years of the [modern] State's existence. For after all, it was Monday & in Israel that was the day prior to Independence day, on which all Israel remember those that paid the ultimate price for our continued (precarious) existence.
> There was an entertainer with them who sang the memorial song, they then sang the national anthem (Hatikva) & they all got back on bus.
> On arrival in Marseilles, they found pandemonium. The entire world was trying to get on a plane no matter where.
> All of a sudden, an announcement was made in Hebrew (The blessed FrenchONLY speak French)
> "Don't panic, we will bring all of you home. Not one will be left behind "
>
> And so it was.
>
> El Al sent three Jumbo's & got everybody home in time for the holidays. They were the only country whose airline sent empty planes to fetch people.
>
> It's the little things that make the difference
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THAT is why the country of Israel will outlast all of us. They stick together and take care of each other.
We just keep getting split into smaller and smaller groups.
OT
Does anyone have a gold and silver coin dealer they trust. Given the moronic monetary situation in the world, I'm going to keep more "hard" currency on hand. Seed, food and ammo can only be bartered so far for goods and services.
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