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Doug Wright

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What Are You Thankful For?
« on: November 20, 2012, 02:39:31 PM »
--CommonGround:  A golf course that befits its name
--Quirk: Because it makes me smile
--Arnold Palmer:  I’m fortunate to have lived in his era and his lifetime; he will always be The King
--Jim Colton: For turning an idea into a great charitable endeavour
--That one magical shot in an otherwise forgettable round that keeps you coming back
--My parents: For introducing me to a lifetime sport that became a passion
--Friends new and old
--Ran and Ben: For this website, enough said…

Happy Thanksgiving
« Last Edit: November 20, 2012, 02:42:07 PM by Doug Wright »
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Bob_Huntley

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2012, 02:53:49 PM »

Being on top of the grass and not below it.

Having an addiction, nay, obsession with the game that although I put my clubs away a couple of weeks ago vowing to give it a rest, broke down and made an appointment for a lesson. I think the quote below sums up the delusions of 99% of amateur golfers.


“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”


- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


Bob




 




J_ Crisham

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2012, 03:01:38 PM »

Being on top of the grass and not below it.

Having an addiction, nay, obsession with the game that although I put my clubs away a couple of weeks ago vowing to give it a rest, broke down and made an appointment for a lesson. I think the quote below sums up the delusions of 99% of amateur golfers.


“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”


- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


Bob




 




Priceless! Have a good Thanksgiving,    Jack

Stephen Davis

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2012, 03:19:51 PM »
That I have an incredible wife, two wonderful little boys, a career/business that I love and that is doing well,my health and a that I have a game that I have loved since I was a child, and that I get to play said game with my father and brother on Saturday.

Terry Lavin

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2012, 05:16:39 PM »
Great wife, kids, job, clubs to play at, friends, city, country and president. It's a wonderful life!
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

Bill Seitz

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2012, 05:26:49 PM »
I'm thankful for the 39+ years I had with my dad, who passed away a week and a half ago. 

One of the greatest days I've ever spent on a golf course was a few years ago, when he could still play, but needed a riding cart at the 3-par course where he taught me and my brother how to play golf, but more importantly how to conduct ourselves on the golf course.  I made eight birdies that day, shot a seven under par 47, and the best thing about it was that he took more enjoyment from it than I did.  We were going through some of his things the other day and my mother noticed that he kept the scorecard.  We only played together one more time, at the same course, and that time with my brother.  I didn't play quite as well, but it's a memory just as treasured. 

Mac Plumart

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2012, 06:29:09 PM »
I'm thankful for my kids and their health and happiness.  My friends, family, and loved ones. 

On the golf front, I'm thankful that I've found some extra special courses and that I have some good friends to enjoy them with.

Sportsman/Adventure loving golfer.

Tim Martin

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2012, 07:44:31 PM »
My GCA friends. Some of which will be friends for life. Something I never envisaged when joining the site but something I will always be grateful for.

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Jason Topp

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2012, 07:45:29 PM »
. . .  and the best thing about it was that he took more enjoyment from it than I did.  We were going through some of his things the other day and my mother noticed that he kept the scorecard. 

I love detail like that. 

My favorite part about playing with my father is that he often makes an involuntary wincing sound when I hit a bad shot.  I am 46 but that sound means more to me than anything he has communicated on purpose.

Sam Morrow

Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2012, 10:28:15 PM »
When I think about how lucky I am I realize that I'm thankful for everything in my life.

Matthew Essig

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2012, 11:23:53 PM »
When I think about how lucky I am I realize that I'm thankful for everything in my life.

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Everything in our lives.
Wait, no.

Everything in our lives.
LIFE!!!
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Rich Goodale

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2012, 07:17:17 AM »
Turkey.
Life is good.

Any afterlife is unlikely and/or dodgy.

Jean-Paul Parodi

Adam Clayman

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2012, 07:28:32 AM »
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing your whole life." - Mickey Mantle

Bryan Lewis

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2012, 09:44:58 AM »
A wonderful wife who puts up with me in spite of all my faults. 
Three wonderful young men I'm proud to call my sons. 
Great parents who instilled the right values in me. 
Golf, that has taken me to so many wonderful places and introduced me to some of the best people I would ever want to meet.

Mike Hendren

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2012, 10:38:03 AM »
I really like trousers with the hidden elastic in the sides.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Bogey
Two Corinthians walk into a bar ....

Dan Kelly

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2012, 11:45:48 AM »
I am thankful for (among many other things) the Internet, which has brought me friendships for which I am thankful, sites that help keep me thankful (cf. the video I posted in the thread titled "Open your eyes! Open your heart!" -- now on Page 2), and gems like these:

(1) At http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/sermon.html:
Rabbi Gittelsohn’s Iwo Jima Sermon
By Sheldon M. Young

The fight for Iwo Jima in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. A tiny island in the Pacific dominated by a volcanic mountain and pockmarked with caves Iwo Jima was the setting for a five-week, nonstop battle between 70,000 American Marines and an unknown number of deeply entrenched Japanese defenders. The courage and gallantry of the American forces, climaxed by the dramatic raising of the American flag over Mt. Suribachi, is memorialized in the Marine Corps monument in Washington, D.C. Less well-remembered, however, is that the battle occasioned an eloquent eulogy by a Marine Corps rabbi that has become an American classic.

Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn (1910-95), assigned to the Fifth Marine Division, was the first Jewish chaplain the Marine Corps ever appointed. The American invading force at Iwo Jima included approximately 1,500 Jewish Marines, and Rabbi Gittelsohn was in the thick of the fray, ministering to Marines of all faiths in the combat zone. He shared the fear, horror and despair of the fighting men, each of whom knew that each day might be his last. Roland Gittelsohn's tireless efforts to comfort the wounded and encourage the fearful won him three service ribbons.

When the fighting was over, Division Chaplain Warren Cuthriell, a Protestant minister, asked Rabbi Gittelsohn to deliver the memorial sermon at a combined religious service dedicating the Marine Cemetery. Cuthriell wanted all the fallen Marines (black and white, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish) honored in a single, nondenominational ceremony. Unfortunately, racial and religious prejudice was strong in the Marine Corps, as it was then throughout America. According to Rabbi Gittelsohn's autobiography, the majority of Christian chaplains objected to having a rabbi preach over predominantly Christian graves The Catholic chaplains, in keeping with church doctrine opposed any form of joint religious service.

To his credit, Cuthriell refused to alter his plans. Gittelsohn, on the other hand, wanted to save his friend Cuthriell further embarrassment and so decided it was best not to deliver his sermon. Instead, three separate religious services were held. At the Jewish service, to a congregation of 70 or so who attended, Rabbi Gittelsohn delivered the powerful eulogy he originally wrote for the combined service:

Here lie men who loved America because their ancestors generations ago helped in her founding. And other men who loved her with equal passion because they themselves or their own fathers escaped from oppression to her blessed shores. Here lie officers and men, Negroes and Whites, rich men and poor, together. Here are Protestants, Catholics, and Jews together. Here no man prefers another because of his faith or despises him because of his color. Here there are no quotas of how many from each group are admitted or allowed. Among these men there is no discrimination. No prejudices. No hatred. Theirs is the highest and purest democracy...

Whosoever of us lifts his hand in hate against a brother, or who thinks himself superior to those who happen to be in the minority, makes of this ceremony and the bloody sacrifice it commemorates, an empty, hollow mockery. To this then, as our solemn sacred duty, do we the living now dedicate ourselves: To the right of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, of White men and Negroes alike, to enjoy the democracy for which all of them have here paid the price...

We here solemnly swear this shall not be in vain. Out of this and from the suffering and sorrow of those who mourn this, will come, we promise, the birth of a new freedom for the sons of men everywhere.

Among Gittelsohn's listeners were three Protestant chaplains so incensed by the prejudice voiced by their colleagues that they boycotted their own service to attend Gittelsohn's. One of them borrowed the manuscript and, unknown to Gittelsohn, circulated several thousand copies to his regiment. Some Marines enclosed the copies in letters to their families. An avalanche of coverage resulted. Time magazine published excerpts, which wire services spread even further. The entire sermon was inserted into the Congressional Record, the Army released the eulogy for short-wave broadcast to American troops throughout the world and radio commentator Robert St. John read it on his program and on many succeeding Memorial Days.

In 1995, in his last major public appearance before his death, Gittelsohn reread a portion of the eulogy at the 50th commemoration ceremony at the Iwo Jima statue in Washington, D.C. In his autobiography, Gittelsohn reflected, “I have often wondered whether anyone would ever have heard of my Iwo Jima sermon had it not been for the bigoted attempt to ban it.”

(2) The full sermon -- at http://www.ww2gyrene.org/spotlight4_gittelsohn.htm

This is perhaps the grimmest, and surely the holiest task we have faced since D-Day. Here before us lie the bodies of comrades and friends. Men who until yesterday or last week laughed with us, joked with us, trained with us. Men who were on the same ships with us, and went over the sides with us as we prepared to hit the beaches of this island. Men who fought with us and feared with us. Somewhere in this plot of ground there may lie the man who could have discovered the cure for cancer. Under one of these Christian crosses, or beneath a Jewish Star of David, there may now rest a man who was destined to be a great prophet–to find the way, perhaps, for all to live in plenty, with poverty and hardship for none. Now they lie here silently in this sacred soil, and we gather to consecrate this earth in their memory.

It is not easy to do so. Some of us have buried our closest friends here. We saw these men killed before our very eyes. Any one of us might have died in their places. Indeed, some of us are alive and breathing at this very moment only because men who lie here beneath us had the courage and strength to give their lives for ours. To speak in memory of such men as these is not easy. Of them too can it be said with utter truth: "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here. It can never forget what they did here."

No, our poor power of speech can add nothing to what these men and the other dead of our Division who are not here have already done. All that we even hope to do is follow their example. To show the same selfless courage in peace that they did in war. To swear that by the grace of God and the stubborn strength and power of human will, their sons and ours shall never suffer these pains again. These men have done their jobs well. They have paid the ghastly price of freedom. If that freedom be once again lost, as it was after the last war, the unforgivable blame will be ours, not theirs. So it is we the living who are here to be dedicated and consecrated.

We dedicate ourselves, first, to live together in peace the way they fought and are buried in this war. Here lie men who loved America because their ancestors generations ago helped in her founding, and other men who loved her with equal passion because they themselves or their own fathers escaped from oppression to her blessed shores. Here lie officers and men, negroes and whites, rich men and poor–together. Here no man prefers another because of his faith or despises him because of his color. Here there are no quotas of how many from each group are admitted or allowed. Among these men there is no discrimination. No prejudices. No hatred. Theirs is the highest and purest democracy.

Any man among us the living who fails to understand that will thereby betray those who lie here dead. Whoever of us lifts up his hand in hate against a brother, or thinks himself superior to those who happen to be in the minority, makes of this ceremony and of the bloody sacrifice it commemorates, an empty, hollow mockery. To this, then, as our solemn, sacred duty, do we the living now dedicate ourselves: to the rights of Protestants, Catholics and Jews, of white men and negroes alike, to enjoy the democracy for which all of them here have paid the price.

To one thing more do we consecrate ourselves in memory of those who sleep beneath these crosses and stars. We shall not foolishly suppose, as did the last generation of America's fighting men, that victory on the battlefield will automatically guarantee the triumph of democracy at home. This war, with all its frightful heartache and suffering,is but the beginning our our generation's struggle for democracy. When the last battle has been won, there will be those at home, as there were the last time, who will want us to turn our backs in selfish isolation on the rest of organized humanity, and thus to sabotage the very peace for which we fight. We promise you who lie here: we will not do that! We will join hands with Britain, China, Russia in peace, even as we have in war, to build the kind of world for which you died.

When the last shot has been fired, there will still be those whose eyes are turned backward, not forward, who will be satisfied with those wide extremes of poverty and wealth in which the seeds of another war can breed. We promise you, our departed comrades: this too we will not permit. This war has been fought by the common man; its fruits of peace must be enjoyed by the common man! We promise, by all that is sacred and holy, that your sons, the sons of moners and millers, the sons of farmers and workers, the right to a living that is decent and secure.

When the final cross has been placed in the last cemetery, once again there will be those to whom profit is more important than peace, who will insist with the voice of sweet reasonableness and appeasement that it is better to trade with the enemies of mankind, than by crushing them, to lose their profit. To you who sleep here silently, we give our promise: we will not listen! We will not forget that some of you were burnt with oil that came from American wells, that many of you were killed with shells fashioned from American steel. We promise that when once again men profit at your expense, we shall remember how you looked when we placed you reverently, lovingly, in the ground.

Thus do we memorialize those who, having ceased living with us, now live within us. Thus do we consecrate ourselves the living to carry on the struggle they began. Too much blood has gone into this soil for us to let it lie barren. Too much pain and heartache have fertilized the earth on which we stand. We here solemnly swear: this shall not be in vain! Out of this, and from the suffering and sorrow of those who mourn this, will come–we promise–the birth of a new freedom for the sons of men everywhere.

Amen.
Rabbi Gittelsohn, HQ, 5th Marines

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

P.S. Oh, and trousers with the hidden elastic in the sides. I'm sure I could order those online, eh?
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Bob_Huntley

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2012, 01:31:53 PM »

Being on top of the grass and not below it.

Having an addiction, nay, obsession with the game that although I put my clubs away a couple of weeks ago vowing to give it a rest, broke down and made an appointment for a lesson. I think the quote below sums up the delusions of 99% of amateur golfers.


“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”


- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


Bob


Rain. Lesson cancelled. Vow remains intact.

Bob

John Kavanaugh

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2012, 01:52:25 PM »
I am thankful for Twtter changing the Internet culture to where long winded posts are as rude as ALL CAPS once were.

Jay Flemma

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2012, 11:40:36 AM »
To get everything in a post would take to long, so I'll hit number one:  My family!
Mackenzie, MacRayBanks, Maxwell, Doak, Dye, Strantz. @JayGolfUSA, GNN Radio Host of Jay's Plays www.cybergolf.com/writerscorner

Doug Wright

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Re: What Are You Thankful For?
« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2012, 08:14:22 PM »
Turkey.

Rihc, I bet you're also thankful for The Claw (tm).
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