Misc - HL 144 (5)

Date: 10/21/2012 4:10:22 PM

To: Jim Horan

Subject: Veterans' Health...13 links.

Received this from a retired Navy Senior Chief who served on the USS Wasp in the early 50’s. Forwarding to all military guys on my list including Mark S. at the PCN. This is not for everyone. There is “means testing”, copays, etc. And you may not even want to be near a VA center or hospital. Just an FYI.

Let me know if unable to open the link and I will resend.

 

Jim Horan

P.O. Box 7480

2165B Saddle Ridge Loop

Avon, CO 81620

970-845-7922

·        13 of VA's Top Links for Vet Services

·          10/15/2012 09:00 AM EDT

·          VA has numerous ways to help Vets. Many do not know our programs exist. You can help. Print out this story, put a few of them in your car, and hand them out when you meet a Vet, on the street, at church on Sunday, wherever.

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From: David L. Roberts

Date: 10/16/2012 10:55:13 PM

To: Ron Knott; misc@pilotcommunication.net

Subject: Re: Posting of email

Hi Ron,

Glad to hear you're getting better. I've been concerned with both you and with Les Byrd out there. You two are keeping the doctors kids in college very well it seems. Seriously though we're all concerned about you and all that has happened over the past few years.

The only Delta info page I'm aware of is in retired Captain Mark Sztanyo's Pilot Communications Net. He has several email addresses depending on what you want posted. They are:

Sztanyo Mark <mark@pilotcommunication.net> (859-525-0259)
Mark@pilotcommunication.net   
misc@pilotcommunication.net  
pcn.calendar@gmail.com
signup@pilotcommunication.net  
death@pilotcommunication.net
illness@pilotcommunication.net  

I'm also sending this to his miscellaneous address above to add to his HighLife weekly email newsletter.

Regards,
Dave

At 12:33 PM 10/15/2012, you wrote:

Hello Dave: hope all is well with you. I am improving daily with the Lord's help.
I want to post a notice on the new Delta info page but am having problems with the procedure.
Would please post the following for the Delta group?

Auto (new) Buying: USAA has a great service of getting low prices on new cars and it is free. For example I was quoted a 7.47% discount on a new Mercedes. That is over $4,100 off the MSRP on a $55,000 car. Contact USAA car buying service, show them which car you want (with all options), they will send you the MSRP price and the discounted price. Take it to your dealer and most will accept it. You may even get more discount from the dealer. It don't hurt to ask. Ron Knott

Thanks Dave.

Ronknott.net
Biblestudiesbyronknott.org

 

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From: Edward McHugh

Date: 10/14/2012 2:38:56 PM

To: mark@pilotcommunication.net

Subject: info

Mark

How do I find the list of all the DELTA pilots who have passed away (Flew West )

Ed McHugh 3-5-56 till 4-10-88 L-1011 Capt

Editor: I had already answered Ed but for others that may have this same question, we have those lists on our website page (also linked from our Flown West Blogspot) dedicated to our fellow pilots who have flown west.  Please visit: http://pcn.homestead.com/FlightWest.html

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From: "David L. Roberts" <robertsDL@mindspring.com>

Subject: CREDIT CARD WARNING - RFID CHIP

Date: October 11, 2012 11:23:45 AM EDT

To: MY FAMILY & FRIENDS <robertsDL@mindspring.com>

 

WARNING.......CAUTION.......WARNING

I just received this e-mail, and am sending it to you for your protection!

I watched this youtube video, and then checked my credit cards for the little "WiFi RFID Signal Icon" on each one. I found none with that signal on them, but I am determined to watch for it when my cards come in on renewals.

If one does arrive with the RFID signal on it, I'll go to the sender to try and have it replaced with a non RFID card.

Watch this video to see how easily your credit card data can be captured without your knowledge and pasted to any other magnetic style card, i.e., a hotel room key card, and used to charge items on your account.

This is NEED-TO-KNOW information...!!

http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/lLAFhTjsQHw%26sns=em

 

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From: Gene Hall

Date: 10/9/2012 5:27:59 PM

To: Gene Hall

Subject: Condition update

I think a little review is in order. In December it will be four years since we started chasing melanomas on my scalp. For the first three years of the chase it had almost become routine: two or three months after an excision, another one would show, and we would do it again. I joked that I had been put to sleep so many times that I was becoming addicted to general anesthesia. Until a year ago, there had been no indication of metastases. But last fall, when a scan showed the melanoma growing into my skull, I was not too worried. This was surgery number nine. A neurosurgeon would be involved with the plastic surgeon. He explained that it was very unlikely that the melanoma had gone through the dura and into the brain. He thought he would need to remove about a one inch square section of my skull, and the plastic surgeon would finish. Wrong. He removed a section of my skull that was about two inches by three inches, and the cancer cells were attached to my brain.

I was now dealing with stage IV melanoma and a couple of weeks later it showed up in a chest x-ray. I sometimes think there is too much information available on Google, and it didn’t take me very long to find that the median survival rate for brain melanoma was measured in months, not years. It is amazing how much sympathy your friends give you when you have a big sunken spot on the side of your head, and scars from the top of your head down to your collar line. My plastic surgeon is a very positive man. He examined his work about a month after the surgery and said; “when they get the cancer under control, I will give you a better looking skull than the one you had.” I am so hard headed that I believed him.

During the last year, I’ve had dozens of people tell me that they have never seen anyone handle facing death like I have. I have been told over and over how tough I am, what an inspiration I am, etc, etc, etc. Well, I am not tough, and I long to live long enough to see my seven grandchildren grow up. A lot of you are not going to understand what I am going to say next, but I am praying as I write this that you will read until the end. I don’t have a clue about when I may take my last breath on planet Earth, but I know that when it happens, I will wake up in the presence of Jesus.

A lot of you who knew me before Christ came into my life are still amazed that He saved one as wild as I was, but He did. The US church is so into the world today that I fear some of my “church going” friends will die without ever hearing the true gospel message. In my wife’s old age, she frequently asks friends – some she barely knows – if they died tonight would they go to heaven. Too many of our friends give answers like, “I hope so” or “I have tried to live a good life”, etc. Those are the wrong answers.

You may be a person who doesn’t believe in God. You may believe when it is over here you just go to sleep. You may have been a church member your whole life, but you may never have made a personal commitment to Christ. In the 3^rd chapter of John, Jesus tells Nicodemus how to be a Christian. If you fall into any of the aforementioned categories, read the first 21 verses of John 3 tonight. Pray and ask God to reveal himself to you. What do you have to lose? You have nothing to lose!

 In the words of my stoic son-in-law- “We all have terminal cancer.” He said that to my daughter when she was upset by one of my setbacks. Leave it to a doctor to state the harsh facts. I don’t know if it made my daughter feel better, but it’s true. We’re all dying of something, BUT, when Jesus is our savior, “to live is Christ, to die is GAIN.” I’m not just saying that. I really believe it. And I encourage any of you who are not sure what you believe to spend some time with God and the Bible. God promises that those who seek Him with their whole heart will find Him. So I don’t worry about those who are humbly seeking, just those who are not seeking at all. Christianity has stood up to scrutiny for 2000 years. Investigate it for yourself, and you will be amazed. It’s the most important thing you will ever do.

About my positive thinking plastic surgeon; he replaced my lost skull with artificial bone two weeks ago – surgery number ten - and I am doing great. I am told that once you have melanoma in your innards, it can reactivate at anytime. I think of my Emory docs as warriors who despise cancer, and I will blog about them at another time. I will sing their praises until the day I take my last breath.

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