![]() ![]() And we shall win in spite of our petty bickerings among ourselves for in the final analysis we are the greatest nation on earth. Regardless of the causes the effect is that we simply must win. You are too intelligent to be told and believe that war is anything but a tragic mess, however, we are in this not with our consent but because of a treacherous attack that we did not invite. And you are better trained than most for the work. There are bound to be dark days and darker nights but you must always remember that nothing lasts forever and in the morning it will be a new day. It wonât be an easy job but then, Don, no job worth the doing is. And weâre sure that you have the stuff to do it. But then you are a man now and will have to make your own way from here on. You see we love you and are now so helpless to aid you in any way. Of course it is hard for you to go but not much harder than for us to see you go. My thoughts are with you tonight so strongly that I shall drop you a note. The original is written in cursive on Wright Aeronautical Corporation letterhead. You can read all three pages together as a PDF â or you can click a thumbnail for each page for the full size version.īelow is the text. John was 63 when he wrote this letter to his youngest son. My father and his siblings knew John Simmons, their grandfather, and with this letter they are able to know him a bit better. He had enlisted after the Pearl Harbor attack.ĭonald Simmons was my grandfather, and I had the fortune of knowing him. This 1942 letter was written by John Simmons to his son Donald as Donald was about to be shipped to Europe (England first). I volunteered to share it more widely, and Dad and his siblings agreed. This article describes how to get it:ĪppleScripters may modify the script to land new bookmarks from other sources besides NetNewsWire.My Dad ran across a remarkable letter and shared it with family. BookMacster version 1.9.9 is available now on our beta update track. In any case, this script requires BookMacster version 1.9.9 or later. To do that, open this script in AppleScript Editor (called simply Script Editor in earlier Mac OS X versions), click in the menu: File ▸ Save As, and then choose the desired file type from the popup at the bottom of the sheet. For some launchers, you may prefer or need to launch it as either a modern script bundle (.scptd) or an application (.app) instead. This file has been saved as an old-fashioned script (.scpt) because NetNewsWire does not seem to recognize modern script bundles (.scptd) when populating its Scripts menu. Alternatively, you may run it from QuicKeys, LaunchBar, or your favorite script launcher. ![]() You may put this script in your NetNewsWire Scripts folder. Edit Feb 20: Please download the improved script in Reply #2 of this thread which can now capture any tab in NetNewsWire instead of just the selected headline. It is named NNW-to-BookMacster.scpt and appears just above my signature. Attached to this post for your downloading pleasure is an AppleScript which grabs the selected headline in NetNewsWire and lands it in BookMacster as a new bookmark. ![]()
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