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Fred,<BR>
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Thank you for sharing your "horror" stories regarding your employment in manufacturing in America.<BR>
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I too have difficulty on Sunday nights also...even after 4-1/2 years. <BR>
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My sister-in-law's brother whom I have know since the mid 60's and has always been one of my best friends was an A-10 pilot at Nellis AF base many years ago. He later became a wing commander at another A-10 base...forgot where it was now. He later flew a Stealth fighter, went to the War college, and before that was in an exchange program with the Navy. He would tell me about his 100+ carrier landings in the middle of the night with only the strip lights on. He said that you had a 20 foot window as the ship moved up and down...and it was important that you did each landing perfect. He later retired as a full Bird Colonel. <BR>
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The point: He said that the stress of carrier landings was severe and he would often soak his flight suit with sweat before the landing. That is the way I felt before attending and attempting to prepare for the "everyday" morning management meeting. I still have difficulty enjoying mornings...even having coffee with my wife. <BR>
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Everyone should read the story of Robert Burnham Jr. author of the Celestial Handbooks. I think the Phoenix times has a good story. Google and you will find much.<BR>
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Burnham lost his job at Lowell after a 20 years of a proper motion star study. He was offered a job as a janitor...cleaning the bathrooms and sweeping up at the Mars Hill complex. He died penniless and during his last 10 tens sold paintings of cats outside a Planetarium in (maybe San Diego). He occasionally mentioned to some of the insignificant astronomers and directors of this planetarium that he was in fact Robert Burnham Jr. <BR>
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Everyone thought that the pitiful looking guy was just a homeless derelict. He died of congestive heart failure and no one even knew who he was.<BR>
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