Our text for the day comes from that immortal television series, The A-Team. At the conclusion of each show the leader would light up his cigar and say, "I love it when a plan comes together." He's right! It is great when a plan comes together. 

In 1943 Great Britain was planning an invasion of Sicily. In order to carry out this invasion successfully British planners had to convince the Germans and Italians that the invasion would occur elsewhere. And so the British came up with a plan that would be worthy of James Bond. They secured a corpse of a recently deceased young man ” with the permission of the deceased's parents. Then they gave the corpse a fictitious life. Its name was to be Major William Martin, a man with a penchant for high living who had a fiancee named Pam and fictitious p…