Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols | |
It took a while to surface, but it appears that a long-distance credit card may have saved a U.S. Army unit from heavy casualties during the Grenada military rescue/invasion. Major General David Nichols, Air Force ... said the Army unit was in a house surrounded by Cuban forces. One soldier found a telephone and, using his credit card, called Ft. Bragg, N.C., telling Army officiers there of the perilous situation. The officers in turn called the Air Force, which sent in gunships to scatter the Cubans and relieve the unit. -- Aviation Week and Space Technology | |
There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over. -- David Nichols |