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Friday, May 14, 2010

Commissioning 6: Purchase

My friend, pastor, and mentor, Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Jones, U.S. Navy (Retired), gets a silver dollar from me after giving me the honor of my first salute as a commissioned officer in the U.S. military. Navy tradition says the new officer may buy his first salute, but that every one thereafter must be earned through the hard work of looking after their troops.

My mother is to my right, my grandmother to my left. To Master Chief's right are my great uncles, Dwight and Ralph.

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Why "A Message From Earth"?

In 1979, Voyager I launched to the outer limits of the solar system and beyond. It carried onboard a gold plated disk for the reference of any intelligent life that found it to learn about earth. The disk contained images of the human figure, greetings in 55 languages, 115 sounds from nature, 90 minutes of music from a variety of cultures and eras, along with a greeting from the President of the United States and Secretary General of the United Nations. These are the only relics of human civilization outside the solar system.

Like Voyager, this record here beams elements of this life into the digital ether. Who will find it? What meaning will it have to them? I hope if the one who finds it is you, this record will have meaning to you of some sort.