To: elmatador who wrote (87352 ) 2/21/2012 7:23:55 PM From: Maurice Winn 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to You mean Virtuous Victorian Values ElM. You are right. But he wasn't writing about doing nothing < I’ve always planned on doing some form of work when I retire; after all your early forties is a bit early to stop. Some ideas include: Becoming a fee-only financial planner, freelance writing, working at our local library or perhaps just reduce the hours at my day job. > What I have done for 20 years since retirement is do what I want. What I have done is more valuable than what I did at a real job doing what managers told me to do. Sometimes it's good to do nothing and keep even my mind from moving. The two Chinese characters forming the word Gung Ho are translated individually as "Work" and "Together". The term was picked up by United States Marine Corps Major Evans Carlson from his New Zealand friend, Rewi Alley , one of the founders of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives . Carlson explained in a 1943 interview: "I was trying to build up the same sort of working spirit I had seen in China where all the soldiers dedicated themselves to one idea and worked together to put that idea over. I told the boys about it again and again. I told them of the motto of the Chinese Cooperatives, Gung Ho. It means Work Together-Work in Harmony...." > I have a signed copy of a booklet by Rewi Alley who my parents met a few decades ago in China somewhere. I'll give it to Wai Ying, my grandson.
