Tonight Norma and I are in Honolulu. We had planned a snow skiing trip
with the family but it did not work out because of the “energy crisis” and the
kids could not get out of school. Therefore, spontaneously, we decided to come
to Hawaii.
The children supported us in this.
Norma has given of herself to the
family and particularly so during the holidays and I am pleased that we could
be alone together for a little time. We have done nothing but read, study, swim
in the surf, walk, and eat – so much so that we cut our stay on Maui short because we were getting “antsy”.
I have re-read and studied most of
the D & C and cross-referenced it with the other standard works.
Today we saw the USS Arizona
memorial where over 1000 men went down with the battleship when it was bombed
by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941. I thought how most of the people in the world
are pawns or marionettes in the hands of a few powerful wicked men of the world
and how we have been influenced by war during most of my life. Truly, a feeling
of emptiness and useless wasting of young life was felt as we stood over the
sunk battleship which still holds the bodies of the dead. I have decided to
call my right fifth finger a “memory finger”. As a tradition I have been and
will continue to look for rings to remind me of pleasant travels and memories
in my life. I now have rings from Mexico,
Egypt, Jerusalem,
and Honolulu.
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