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From CNA:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It started out as a regular Saturday morning for most Hawaiians, including Dallas and Monica Carter and their five children.<\/p>\n

Monica was getting breakfast ready for the kids before a busy day when the warning blared across smartphone screens throughout the island:<\/p>\n

BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.<\/p>\n

It was the same kind of warnings Hawaiians are used to receiving for tsunamis and hurricanes \u2013 the kind of warning they\u2019re used to heeding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was quite terrifying, of course,\u201d Dallas Carter, a theology lecturer for the Diocese of Honolulu, told CNA. Immediately, Dallas and Monica sprang into action, albeit in different ways.<\/p>\n

Looking back, \u201cit was a great dynamic to see how we reacted together but in different ways to the same crisis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dallas said he had four thoughts once he had processed the alert. The first was: \u201cOh (no) I haven\u2019t gone to confession yet!\u201d It was Saturday, and the family often goes on Sundays before Mass.<\/p>\n

\u201cNumber two was, ok, how do I do this perfect contrition thing? Number three was we have to get the kids praying rosary, and number four was \u2018where\u2019s my whiskey,\u2019\u201d he recalled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Pixabay<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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