Then there was a conference in
France where a number of internation al engineers, included in which both
French and American, were taking part.
During a break one of the
French engineers came back into the room saying
"Have you heard the
latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia
to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?" A Boeing
engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on
board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can
supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three
cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can
produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and
they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and
injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many
does France have?"
You could have heard a pin drop.
