Saturday, February 27, 2010

Be still.














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DF-ST-82-07193

SGT Jim Hendricks checks to be sure that the Mark 82 bombs are secured under the wing of the F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft.

Photographer's Name: MSGT Don Sutherland

Location: FLESLAND AIR STATION










1978 film "Capricorn One" DVD movie:

01:23:08


Kay Brubaker: What are you after?

Robert Caulfield: I'm taking a terrible risk telling you this. I don't think your husband is the kind of man who makes mistakes no matter how far away he may be. I think he was trying to tell you something.

Kay Brubaker: What?

Robert Caulfield: What did you do at Flat Rock?

Kay Brubaker: Nothing much. We came home after one day because Charles got sick.

Robert Caulfield: What'd you do that one day?

Kay Brubaker: I don't remember. We took a tour of the town they had those tours and I don't remember we took some home movies.

Robert Caulfield: Do you have them?

Kay Brubaker: Yes.

Robert Caulfield: May I see them?

Kay Brubaker: Yes. They were making a movie the day we were there. Bru got a big kick out of it. He never knew it took so much time to just do one simple scene. Charles loved that one. He wasn't in the greatest mood though. He didn't know it but he was sick. Bru was fascinated with the detail. He couldn't get over how something so fake could look so real. He kept on saying that with that kind of technology you could convince people of almost anything.










2008 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" DVD movie:

01:32:51


Jacob Benson: Mom.

Dr. Helen Benson: What's happening to him? Jacob.

Klaatu: They're inside him. He's dying.

Dr. Helen Benson: Help him.










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=37238&st=&st1=

Ronald Reagan

XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989

Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom

May 12th, 1986

The President. Well, thank you all for being here. Nancy and I want to welcome you all to the White House for this happy occasion. On days like this and at lunches like this, I find myself looking up and thinking what a wonderful job I have. We're here today to present the Medal of Freedom to seven Americans. This medal is the highest civilian honor our nation can bestow. And I've always thought it highly significant that we call it not the Medal of Talent or the Medal of Valor or the Medal of Courage or Genius but the Medal of Freedom. I think that says a lot about our values and what we honor and what we love.

Freedom is important to all of us. As someone who spent many years making speeches, I have quoted many definitions of freedom—some very moving and eloquent. But I've always liked George Orwell's blunt and unadorned statement. He said, "Freedom is the right to say no." There's something kind of happily rebellious about that definitions and I thought of it this morning because I decided this year's recipients of the Medal of Freedom are distinguished by this. You're a group of happy rebels. In your careers and in the way you have lived your lives, you've all said no—a most emphatic no—to mediocrity, to averageness, to timidity. You've said no to the rules of the game and the regulations of the day. You've said no to the conventional wisdom, no to the merely adequate, no to the limits and limitations on yourselves and others.

But it's probably true that there is little point to freedom unless it's accompanied by a big yes! And each of you has uttered a resounding Whitmanesque yes to many things



When a soldier rising, sword in hand, reaches to protect an idea—freedom, liberty, human kindness—the world is, for a moment, hushed. Greatness is often born in quiet, in stillness. And so it was that night in June of 1944 when General Matthew B. Ridgway prayed the words God spoke to Joshua.. "I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." D-day saved a continent, and so, a world. And Ridgway helped save D-day. Heroes come when they're needed; great men step forward when courage seems in short supply.










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The "quietness." I think I know what "the quietness" means. I have these memories, with some kind of vague anxiety associated with them from what I remember as being on the Taylor. The was these times that some machinery would stop running and it suddenly got very quiet. You weren't really aware of all the noise until it stopped. And there was a brief period when the noise stopped and you were wondering why it got so quiet and then the alarms started going off. As I remember it, it was the engines stopping that caused the period of quietness.

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SGT John Halonder checks to be sure that the Mark 82 bombs are secured under the wing of the F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft in preparation for the first bombing run on the Microsoft Redmond campus. The aircraft are participating in OPERATION KILL BILL, the first strike against domestic terrorists in the War On Terror.

Date Shot: 12 Aug 2006

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