Ned
Miller - Do What You Do Do Well 1965
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From
A Jack To A Queen - Ned Miller
This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
“I had been reading a long novel—”And Quiet Flows the Don”—about the Don River in Russia and the Cossacks who lived along it in the 19th century. It describes the Cossack soldiers galloping off to join the Czar’s army, singing as they go. Three lines from a song are quoted in the book: ‘Where are the flowers? The girls plucked them / Where are the girls? They’re all married / Where are the men? They’re all in the army.’ I never got around to looking up the song, but I wrote down those three lines.“Later, in an airplane, I was dozing, and it occurred to me that the line ‘long time passing’—which I had also written in a notebook—would sing well. Then I thought, ‘When will we ever learn.’ Suddenly, within 20 minutes, I had a song. There were just three verses. I Scotch-taped the song to a microphone and sang it at Oberlin College. This was in 1955.“One of the students there had a summer job as a camp counselor. He took the song to the camp and sang it to the kids. It was very short. He gave it rhythm, which I hadn’t done. The kids played around with it, singing ‘Where have all the counselors gone? / Open curfew, everyone.’“The counselor added two actual verses: ‘Where have all the soldiers gone? / Gone to graveyards every one / Where have all the graveyards gone? / Covered with flowers every one.’ Joe Hickerson is his name, and I give him 20 percent of the royalties. That song still brings in thousands of dollars from all around the world.”
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email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai
A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: 'Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together.'
So the doctor said:
'Ok and what do you
want me to do?'
She said:
'I want you to end my
pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this.'
The doctor thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady:
'I think I have a
better solution for your problem. It's less dangerous for you too.'
She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request. Then he continued:
'You see, in order for
you having not to take care of 2 babies at the same time, let's kill
your present one-year-old. This way, you could rest a little before
the other one is born. If we're going to kill one of them, it doesn't
matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you
chose to kill the one in your arms.'
The lady was horrified
and said:
'No doctor!
How terrible! It's a crime to kill a child!
'I agree', the doctor replied.
'But you seemed to be
OK on killing your unborn child, so I thought maybe that you'd agree to kill
the other one. I believe that what I propose, given your
situation, is the best solution.'
The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that's already been born and one that's still in the womb. The crime is the same!
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If you agree, please
forward this to all your family and friends. Together we can help save
many precious lives!
Love says:
"I sacrifice myself for the
good of the other person."
Abortion says:
"I sacrifice the other
person for the good of myself."
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