CAPT. WALTER F. HENRY
Commanding Officer
ADA K
CDR. EDWARD A. TABER, JR. SI//V
Executive Officer
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E D O LJ 0 CR Q A\ d
CASUAL J30UT FIREARMS?
HERE'S GRIM REMINDER '
Maybe you read about it. The young of
ficer in California took his wife and
their three-year old son to a lakeside
picnic. He did some practice shooting
with his .22 automatic pistol, then
removed the clip and tossed the gun
in their car.
But he \iidndt remove the shell from
the chamber. On the way home, the lit
tle boy played with the pistol. It
went off, killing his mother.
Senseless accident? More than that.
Shocking carelessness. The factors of
(a) lethal weapon and (b)a small child
add-up to tragedy* We in the. service
who have more experience with firearms
than the average civilian surely should
be aware of the danger—surely should
take more than routine precaution aga
inst it.
Guns go off, knives and razors cut,
aedicines and drugs can be fatal in a
child's hands, To leave them within
his reach is to invite terrible conse
quences. Our familiarity with any le
thal instrument should never lull us
into treating it as a casual house
hold appliance. _ _
With the hunting season just ahead,
we should give ourselves a refresher
course in the common sense of safety
-never to take for granted the empty
chamber of the rifle lock; never to
"just put down for a moment" and always »
to be watchful of small exploring rands
A lifetime of grief is no atonement*
for a minute of carelessness.
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the greatest days our country ban ever livod; and
\ce mfist till thank Opel that we -have been al
lowed, each of -us at cor ding to our stations; to
■play a part in making these days memorable in
the'history of our rarer’
-Sir Wljiston Churchill
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CHAPLAINS CORNER
FATHER DOYLE
A shopkeeper once asked a sailor:'
"Where did your father die?" "He ' was
drowned at sea," replied the sailor.
"And your grandfather?" "He too was
drowned," the sailor answered. "Are you
not, then, afraid of going to sea?" the
shopkeeper asked. To these questions
the sailor countered by asking the shop
keeper his identical questions. 'Where
did your father die?" "Oh, he died in
bed." "And your grandfather, did he die
in bed, too?" "Yes," replied the shop
keeper. "Then,"the sailor questioned,
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