Good stuff, Howard.  Thanks for sharing it.  Happy Hanukkah and Merry 
Christmas and happy holidays to all!  73,  lou  WA3MIX
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 6:31 AM
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%20From%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