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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=34325&st=&st1=
Proclamation 5662—National Day of Mourning for the Victims of United States Ship Stark
May 23rd, 1987
Every year, in the beautiful springtime, the American people pause on a special day to pay the heartfelt tribute of love and remembrance to all the sons and daughters of our land who have laid down their lives on the altar of liberty. This year, our Memorial Day remembrance is tinged with fresh sorrow as we honor and mourn the brave men taken from us a short week ago.
No words of ours can pay them the full tribute that is their due: their service, sacrifice, and love of country crown their memory on this day of grief and will do so as long as there is an America that defends freedom and honors its heroic champions. Let us pay tribute, then, to the dead and injured of United States Ship STARK by making their faithfulness and courage and love our own, ever and always. Without Americans like them, there would be no land of the free and no home of the brave; because of Americans like them, the lamp of liberty burns on undimmed, unvanquished, and unquenchable.
In solemn recognition of the valiant crew members of United States Ship STARK who lost their lives or were injured, the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 290, has designated May 25, 1987, as "National Day of Mourning for the Victims of the U.S.S. STARK" and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this day.
Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby appoint Monday, May 25, 1987, as National Day of Mourning for the Victims of United States Ship STARK. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 23rd day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eightyseven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eleventh.
RONALD REAGAN
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:54 a.m., May 26, 1987]
That book was published in 1976. It looks like he was actually an F-4 Phantom pilot and not the A-6 pilot I wrote of earlier. I am quite certain I have not watched this movie in the past 10 years but I can visualize certain scenes from it. There was that part where he radioed that something was wrong with his aircraft and then, I think, they didn't hear from him again and he had crashed into the ocean.
From 7/2/1976 to 10/26/1979 (Friday) is: 3 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days
33-34 (probable objective)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079239/
The Great Santini (1979)
Release Date: 26 October 1979 (USA)
From 2/3/1943 to 6/7/1976 (Phoebe) is: 33 years, 125 days
125 / 365 = 0.34 year
From 2/3/1943 to 6/7/1976 is: 33.34 years
33-34
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001100/
Blythe Danner
Date of Birth: 3 February 1943
The Great Santini (1979) .... Lillian Meechum
