DURING AN ENTRANCE interview with the Air National Guard, my niece was asked, “How long have you wanted to be a pilot?” She answered by recounting an adorable story of how she was videotaped by her mother at the age of five saying she wanted to grow up to be a “princess pilot.” Her evaluator, unmoved, responded, “Princess interviews are next week, so we’ll just focus on the pilot questions, OK?”
MARK GARVEY, Concord, Massachusetts
I ASKED MY DAD, a Navy guy, how far from land his ship was while on the ocean. “We were always just a few miles from land,” he said. “Straight down.”
PAUL TRUSH, Sussex, New Jersey
THE PEN IS mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun.
STEPHEN COLBERT
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