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The best memories of my childhood involve family vacations. It was true then; it is true now. A few years ago, Princess and I travelled up the east coast to Savannah, Georgia -- despite a threatening hurricane. We had a terrific time, though we were also on an important, secret mission. This is a short story of one of our adventures on that trip: October, 2004: We traveled by Mazdamobile, my 22 year-old miracle vehicle. We left Tampa early Thursday morning, made a brief stop at the Kennedy Space Center and then headed north to Ft. Pulaski, on the coast near Savannah, Georgia. The folks at NASA had provided us with three pounds of a super-secret powder used to disperse bad weather before space shuttle launches. Packed in a small, clear, plastic bag, the powder bore an uncomfortable resemblance to cocaine, a fact which did not escape us... or a police officer who happened to glance at us at a stop light in Jacksonville. It took a phone call to NASA and another one to NBC weather guy Willard Scott to clear us. We were on an assignment! Fort Pulaski was built before the U.S. Civil War to protect the port of Savannah from foreign invasion. For our purposes, one of the remaining large cannons facing north offered the perfect launch vehicle for our secret weapon.
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"The 5000 Year Leap," by
W. Cleon Skousen. The title does not
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leap is astounding. The subtitle, Principles of Freedom 101, is
much more applicable to the subject. This book carefully and clearly
summarizes the thinking of the brilliant founding fathers of our country,
the ideas behind the "miracle that changed the world."
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