My dad worked at General Grid, which was bought out by
American Cyanamid, which was bought out by Alcore, which was bought out by M.
C. Gill Company. When you have a good
product, everyone wants in on a piece of the action. Their product was super-thin, super tough
aluminum foil glued into a honeycomb pattern.
The foil is only about 3 thousandths of an inch thick, but when properly
fabricated, it can support a man standing on it. The aluminum honeycomb was used in aircraft
wings, ship bulkheads, and roll-up truck doors.
In 1960, I was on a kite making binge.
My brothers and the neighbor boys made and flew kites up on Mr. Cochran’s
hill. I bought several rolls of string
and would get my kite out so far that it was almost out of sight. I would leave it tied to a fence post
overnight, but the dew overnight would loosen the tissue paper and down it
would come. Which gets me back to my
dad’s job. I convinced him to bring me
home some durable foil to make the ultimate box kite. My aluminum foil kite stayed up for almost
four days. A record for any
middle-school boy living on Clayton Road.
Ha, ha! Hey, but nothing lasts
forever. That is nothing on this old
earth. But when we factor in God and our
eternal life, well that’s a different story.
The apostle Peter said in I Peter 1:23, “Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and
abideth for ever. Hey, God’s Word is forever,
and God’s promises are forever. A
metal-skinned kite may stay up for a long time, but eternal life is for … well
… eternity. And that’s a REALLY long
time.
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