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I was sitting in the waiting room at the VA this morning and a thought suddenly formed in my mind about the United States Naval Academy. I started thinking about how the initials backwards are ANSU. So I started thinking, "Do I know someone named "Ann?" Then I wondered if I knew someone named Sue. I did not think I did. I remember some women with those names, but my instincts must have told me they weren’t the ones I was trying to remember. Then it hit me: Ann Sewell. AN SU EL or maybe it would be AN SU L. I don’t know what the "EL" or just an "L" could represent. So I started thinking about my "memories" of Ann Sewell, who was in my graduating class at Ashdown High School and I remembered two other details. One was of my class reunion in 1994. She was the first person I encountered as I was going to the first night of the reunion as we met down at the Fish Bowl restaurant outside Ashdown, which was a Friday. I was in that convenience store across from the Wal-Mart. She walked in to pay for gas and as I saw her, I said to her matter-of-factly because I had just remembered her name, "Ann Sewell."
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"Space: Above And Beyond"
"The Angriest Angel"
February 11, 1996
Episode 15 DVD:
00:08:32
1LT Paul Wang: Get outta here. I'm trading you. Hey, Colonel, come on. I need a new guy on my team.
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: Guy?! What do you think, we're back on the blocks smoking and joking? Hear this loud and clear, Marine. I am not your guy. I am not your joe. I am not your damn drinking buddy. And I sure as hell am not a mark in a singles bar. You hear this, C.F.B. I am not here to make friends! When this war ends and you go back to raising money for charity and you're eating dogs at Wrigley - and you go back to Mayberry - I'm still going to be out here - waiting for the next one. That's why I'm here.
00:09:47
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: "Looking darkly upon Hektor swift-footed Achilleus answered 'I cannot forgive you. As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions there can be no love between you and me. One of the other must fall before then to glut with his blood, Ares, the god who fights under the shields guard. Remember every valor of yours for now the need comes hardest upon you to be a spearman and a bold warrior. There shall be no escape for you. You will pay in a lump for all those sorrows of my companions you killed in your spear's fury.'"
00:10:37
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: In summation, gentlemen, my proposal is to flush out the bogey via the use of a diversionary squadron whose rules of engagement are to turn tail and run while an SA-43, equipped with the Sewell Fuel missile, executing a forward quarter intercept, rises from behind cover of the retreating squadron, fires the missile and terminates the enemy target.
Admiral Broden: Outstanding, Colonel. Outstanding.
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: Thank you, sir.
Lt. General Alcott: Now, if we can only find this Chiggie von Richthofen.
Commodore Ross: Intelligence is combing every known sector.
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: Gentlemen, if I may.
Admiral Broden: Go ahead, Colonel.
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: It would be the most glorious honor of a long military career if this Colonel was assigned as pilot of the intercepting SA-43.
Commodore Ross: Colonel McQueen, your flight status is grounded.
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: Yes, sir, this is due to the surgical insertion in the inner ear of a myoelectronic feedback device to counter the vestibulocochlear nerve damage sustained in battle, sir.
Commodore Ross: Then you know as well as anyone that an M.E.F. device cannot withstand the g-force demands placed upon an attack jet pilot.
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: I'll take that chance, sir.
Commodore Ross: Chance? Colonel, even the device in your thick skull does not full-on erupt during A.C.M., it would, at the very least stress your temporal lobe to the point of loss of consciousness, seizure and death. I refuse to hand the Chigs a 'gimme.'
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: Then I will have the device removed, sir.
Commodore Ross: You'll be vomiting every five steps.
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: Gentlemen, if I commit to the procedure of having the M.E.F. device removed, pass the physical requirements and achieve approved flight status will I be assigned?
Admiral Broden: Colonel, this is the single most important mission of the war.
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: That's why I should be the one to fly it, sir.
00:13:16
Mr. Howard Sewell: Refining process is nominal?
Missile technician: Yes, Mr. Sewell.
Mr. Howard Sewell: Then it's ready to go?
Missile technician: We're inserting the blast fragmentation warhead now.
Mr. Howard Sewell: This missile will change the nature of the conflict. The world will no longer be fought over galactic territory but over Sewell Fuel.
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Stay With The Dead"
December 3, 1995
Episode 10 DVD:
00:17:54
Dr. Kanellos: Hypervigilance, intrusive recollections. Intense psychological distress. These are all symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. We needn't let him suffer like this, Colonel. There are procedures that we can do that can help -
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: Electroconvulsive therapy.
Dr. Kanellos: It's helped veterans of the A.I. Rebellion. Actually, it's recommended by the V.A.
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: Then something must be wrong with it.
Dr. Kanellos: A fiber-optic laser scalpel is inserted into the posterior commissure. Then a paraldehyde solution is very carefully administered -
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: You destroy his long-term memory.
Dr. Kanellos: But consider the alternative, Colonel. Deteriation - until his condition erupts into manic violence or suicide. I'd like to believe we've come a long ways since the 20th century.
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: Doctor. I've known men - friends - who've gone through this. They're never the same. They don't remember their own families.
