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Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was1 by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected (弹出) and parachuted into enemy hands. He was2 and spent six years in prison in Vietnam. He survived and now3 about lessons learned from that experience.
One day, Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant when a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You4 jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were5 !"
"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.
"I6 your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and7 . The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it worked!"
Plumb assured him, "It8 did. If your parachute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."
Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. He says, "I wondered how many times I might have9 him on the Kitty Hawk. I wondered how many times I might have seen him and not even said‘Good morning, how are you', or anything10 , you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a11 ."
Plumb thought of the many days the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels (深处) of the ship12 working on each parachute, holding in his hands each time the13 of someone he didn't know.
Plumb asks his14 , "Who's packing your15 ? Everyone has someone who provides them with what they need to16 it through the day." Plumb also says that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down. He needed his17 parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these18 before reaching safety. His experience reminds us all to19 and be kind to people who pack our daily parachutes, and strengthen us to go through20 times.
