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Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:20:16 -0700
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nice.  Thanks for that Howard.
Amazing audio quality on that recording.  made it beautiful to listen to.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: merry christmas


> Hello, Merry Christmas, and thanks for that letter Howard.  And 
> now, for the rest of the story, "Good Day" Jim WA6EKS
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Howard Kaufman <[log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date sent: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 05:31:51 -0600
> Subject: merry christmas
> 
> This is a true story, I may have told it before.
> One Christmas, in the early days of the Internet, I stayed home 
> while the
> family went to a Christmas at a distant family's house.  I didn't 
> feel very
> Christmassy, and didn't want to spend the afternoon in a chaotic 
> house where
> I couldn't navigate independently around, with out making people 
> nervous.
> Between the paper, boxes, gifts, dogs, and probably thirty small 
> children,
> it wasn't my idea of a good idea.
> Anyway, I was feeling kind of out of place, as a Jew on Christmas 
> often
> feels.
> I decided to catch up on e-mail while spending the day alone.
> 
> As I opened my messages, I found "a letter from GOD".  So what's 
> this on
> Christmas day?  I liked it so much I forwarded to Steve and 
> Johnnie at WGN
> radio.  They liked it to, and read it on the air.  Now at that 
> time Paul
> Harvey was a fan of their show and listened to their show on his 
> way to work
> in downtown Chicago.
> He liked it to, and he read it and repeated it on the air.  I 
> heard he was
> going to repeat it on a Saturday show, so I hooked up a cassette 
> recorder
> and recorded the broadcast.
> Here it is as my Christmas gift to you.
> 
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5237881/Paul%20Harvey%20-%20Letter%20Fro
> m%20God.MP3
> 
> I wonder if the 20's need to be there for the link to work, but 
> who am I to
> argue with dropbox.
> 
> I don't remember who forwarded God's letter to me, but it might 
> have come on
> the Blind Hams list at the time.
> 
> I will be off the list for a week, will catch up when I get back.  
> If I can
> configure my laptop to check messages, I'll be on during the 
> week.
> 
> 73 de wa9top
> 
> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
> Adaptive Technology Instructor

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