[CC-ARES-RACES] Paul Harvey's kind words about Hams

[JD Delancy]

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>From  Murray Green
Sent  Thursday, March 20, 2003 5:08 pm

Subject  Paul Havey's Message


Radio commentator Paul Harvey plugs ham radio's emergency
communications role: Veteran ABC Radio Networks commentator Paul
Harvey on March 19 offered some kind words for Amateur Radio. The
mention was the second item on "page four" of his Paul Harvey Noon
News and Comment program: "America's quiet warriors are the legion of
ham radio operators, 700,000 of them, who are always at ready for
backup duty in emergencies--amateur, unpaid, uncelebrated, civilian
radio operators, during and after floods and fires and tornadoes.
After the 9/11 attacks, hams were indispensable in reuniting friends
and families. Most recently it was they who expedited the search for
debris after the disaster to the space shuttle Columbia, and right
now, at this moment, they are involved in homeland security to a
greater degree than you would want me to make public." The
commentary's enigmatic and mysterious final sentence --typical of
Harvey's habit of leaving his listeners hanging--apparently refers to
the fact that many Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) and Radio
Amateur Emergency Service (RACES) teams have ramped up their alert
status as hostilities get under way in the Middle East. The entire
Wednesday noon broadcast is available on Paul Harvey's Web site.
Click on the Wednesday noon link under "Listen Now."

http://www.paulharvey.com