One person can change the world

I got this great email from Andrew who attended the Hoffman Process with me. I just had to put it in here.

A thought for the day.
>
> While we were deep in the process, September 26 was the the 25th 
> anniversary of Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov's heroic decision to 
> disobey standing Soviet military orders, and to refuse to launch a 
> nuclear counterstrike against the United States in response to a 
> radar warning that several missiles were approaching Soviet 
> territory over the poles.
>
> In doing so, he prevented the massive exchange of ICBMs that would 
> certainly have followed, had he given the order to launch on 
> warning. The radar warning was a false alarm, of course, and as his 
> reward for saving the world from a nuclear holocaust, Petrov was 
> transferred to other duties  :-)
>
> Still, I find the example comforting. And inspiring.
>
> Even at its worst, a world of darkness can be stopped in its tracks 
> by a few individual acts of light. And we all have that light within 
> us.
>
> Love you all - Andrew