Thursday, February 13, 2014
There's *Hope* America.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:51:59 PM
Subject: as of a drama
In regard to his companions his mind wavered between two opinions, according to his mood. Sometimes he inclined to believing them all heroes. In fact, he usually admired in secret the superior development of the higher qualities in others. He could conceive of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind. Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured him that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking.
His emotions made him feel strange in the presence of men who talked excitedly of a prospective battle as of a drama they were about to witness, with nothing but eagerness and curiosity apparent in their faces. It was often that he suspected them to be liars.
He did not pass such thoughts without severe condemnation of himself. He dinned reproaches at times. He was convicted by himself of many shameful crimes against the gods of traditions.
In his great anxiety his heart was continually clamoring at what he considered the intolerable slowness of the generals. They seemed content to perch tranquilly on the river bank, and leave him bowed down by the weight of a great problem. He wanted it settled forthwith. He could not long bear such a load, he said. Sometimes his anger at the commanders reached an acute stage, and he grumbled about the camp like a veteran.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040660/releaseinfo
IMDb
Oklahoma Blues (1948)
Release Info
USA 28 March 1948
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/quotes
IMDb
Glory (1989)
Quotes
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Before this war began, many of my regiment had never seen a Negro. Now the roads are choked with the dispossessed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977/quotes
IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Memorable quotes for
The Fugitive (1993) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Sheriff Rawlins: Okay boys, gather around here and listen up. We're shuttin' it down, Wyatt Earp's here to mop up.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: That's funny.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: dated 2006
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/50482b.htm
Remarks at the Republican Congressional ``Salute to President Ronald Reagan Dinner''
May 4, 1982
You know, when our friend, Pearl [Bailey] was singing the National Anthem tonight -- I don't know or have heard all the national anthems of the world, but I do know this: The only anthem of those I do know that ends with a question is ours, and may it be ever thus. Does that banner still wave ``o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?'' Yes, it does, and we're going to see that it continues to wave over that kind of a country.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: dated 2006
Interesting. That girl I met at Camp Couchdale was named Phoebe Bailey. There is also this memory of when I was a kid, elementary school, I had one of those boxes we kept our pencils and crayons in. On the lid of the box was printed that anthem and at the end of it, the "home of the brave?" part, I wrote next to it: "Yes."
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: dated 2006
I'm beginning to think I may have actually shot down an ICBM one time. Not sure when I started thinking about that. It seems like I have thought of it before this morning but I'm not sure.
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http://www.e-reading.co.uk/bookreader.php/1016699/Clancy_-_the_Bear_and_the_Dragon.html
The Bear And The Dragon
Tom Clancy
Chapter 60
Skyrockets in Flight
"Launch! Possible launch at Xuanhua!"
"What's that?" asked CINC-NORAD.
"We got a bloom, a huge--two huge ones at Xuanhua," the female captain announced. "Fuck, there's another one."
"Okay, Captain, settle down," the four-star told her. "There's a special op taking that base down right now. Settle down, girl."
In the control bunker, men were turning keys. The general in command had never really expected to do this. Sure, it was a possibility, the thing he'd trained his entire career for, but, no, not this. No. Not a chance.
But someone was trying to destroy his command--and he did have his orders, and like the automaton he'd been trained to be, he gave the orders and turned his command key.
The Spetsnaz people were doing well. Four silos were now disabled. One of the Russian teams managed to crack the maintenance door on their first try. This team, General Kirillin's own, sent its technical genius inside, and he found the missile's guidance module and blew it apart with gunfire. It would take a week at least to fix this missile, and just to make sure that didn't happen, he affixed an explosive charge to the stainless steel body and set the timer for fifteen minutes. "Done!" he called.
"Out!" Kirillin ordered. The lieutenant general, now feeling like a new cadet in parachute school, gathered his team and ran to the pickup point. As guilty as any man would be of mission focus, he looked around, surprised by the fire and flame to his north--
--but more surprised to see three silo covers moving. The nearest was only three hundred meters away, and there he saw one of his Spetsnaz troopers walk right to the suddenly open silo and toss something in--then he ran like a rabbit--
--because three seconds later, the hand grenade he'd tossed in exploded, and took the entire missile up with it. The Spetsnaz soldier disappeared in the fireball he'd caused, and would not be seen again--
--but then something worse happened. From exhaust vents set left and right of Silos #5 and #7 came two vertical fountains of solid white-yellow flame, and less than two seconds later appeared the blunt, black shape of a missile's nosecone.
Fuck," breathed the Apache pilot coded CROOK Two. He was circling a kilometer away, and without any conscious thought at all, lowered his nose, twisted throttle, and pulled collective to jerk his attack helicopter at the rising missile.
"Got it," the gunner called. He selected his 20-mm cannon and held down the trigger. The tracers blazed out like laser beams. The first set missed, but the gunner adjusted his lead and walked them into the missile's upper half--
--the resulting explosion threw CROOK Two out of control, rolling it over on its back. The pilot threw his cyclic to the left, continuing the roll before he stopped it, barely, a quarter of the way through the second one, and then he saw the fireball rising, and the burning missile fuel falling back to the ground, atop Silo #9, and on all the men there who'd disabled that bird.
The last missile cleared its silo before the soldiers there could do much about it. Two tried to shoot at it with their personal weapons, but the flaming exhaust incinerated them in less time than it takes to pull a trigger. Another Apache swept in, having seen what CROOK Two had accomplished, but its rounds fell short, so rapidly the CSS-4 climbed into the air.
Oh, fuck," Clark heard in his radio earpiece. It was Ding's voice. "Oh, fuck."
John got back on his satellite phone.
"Yeah, how's it going?" Ed Foley asked.
"One got off, one got away, man."
"What?"
"You heard me. We killed all but one, but that one got off... going north, but leaning east some. Sorry, Ed. We tried."
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/25/08 7:58 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud_missile
Scud attacks
U.S troops examine the remains of a Scud during the Gulf War.At the outbreak of the Gulf war, Iraq had an effective, if limited ballistic missile force. Besides the original Scud-B, several local variants had been developed. These included the Al-Hussein, developed during the Iran-Iraq war, the Al-Hijarah, a shortened Al-Hussein, and the Al-Abbas, an extended-range Scud fired from fixed launching sites, that was never used. The Soviet-built MAZ-543 vehicle was the prime launcher, along with a few locally-designed TELs, the Al Nida and the Al Waleed.
The first attacks occurred on January 18, 1991, and continued until February 23. In all, 46 missiles were fired at Saudi Arabia and 40 at Israel. [24] By firing missiles at Israel, Saddam Hussein hoped to provoke a retaliation from the Jewish state that would antagonize the Arab members of the U.S.-led coalition.[citation needed] He also hoped to present himself as the champion of the Arab world against Zionism.[citation needed] To pacify the Israelis and prevent a split within their alliance, the United States sent two batteries of Patriot missiles to Israel and devoted important resources to neutralizing the Iraqi missiles and their launchers.[25] Patriots were also deployed in Saudi Arabia, defending cities and coalition bases. Initially, Raytheon and the U.S. government claimed a very high success rate, with president Bush declaring that, out of 42 Scuds engaged, 41 had been intercepted.[26] However these figures were later amended, with the U.S Army stating that the Patriot systems had detected 88 Scuds, engaged 53, of which 27 had been successfully engaged.[27] A successful intercept was judged to have occurred when the Scud warhead had been destroyed, or when the missile had been blown off target. These figures did not appease critics, such as Professor Theodore Postol, who instead suggested that the rate of Patriot intercepts was lower than 10 percent, based on video evidence.[28] Much of the Patriots difficulties stemmed from the fact that it was designed as an anti-aircraft weapon, with software modifications giving it an anti-missile capability in the mid-1980's. Its purpose was not to impact its target directly, but to approach close enough to spray it with shrapnel, which was not always sufficient to neutralize incoming Scuds. Also, the modified Iraqi Al-Hussein had a tendency to break up as it re-entered the atmosphere, creating large streams of debris. The Patriot had difficulty distinguishing between the largest pieces, that tended to be the fuselage, warhead and engine compartment.[29]
In the end the Scuds were responsible for most of the coalition deaths outside of Iraq and Kuwait. They killed one Israeli directly and one Saudi security guard. Twenty-eight U.S. soldiers were killed when one struck a United States Army barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Scud hunting
Despite the limited damage inflicted by Iraqi missile, the coalition committed important air assets and special forces units to eliminate the Scuds and their launchers, essentially to persuade Israel that it did not need to intervene in the conflict.
The USAF organized CAPs over areas where Scud launchers were suspected to operate, namely western Iraq near the Jordanian border, where the Scuds were fired at Israel, and southern Iraq, where they were aimed at Saudi Arabia. A-10 strike aircraft flew over these zones during the day, and F-15Es fitted with LANTIRN pods and synthetic aperture radars patrolled at night. However, the infrared and radar signatures of the Iraqi TELSs were almost impossible to distinguish from ordinary trucks and from the surrounding electromagnetic clutter. While patrolling strike aircraft managed to sight their targets on 42 occasion, they were only able to acquire them three times long enough to release their ordnance.[25] In addition, the Iraqi missile units dispersed their Scud TELs and hid them in culverts, wadis, or under highway bridges. They also practiced "shoot-and-scoot" tactics, withdrawing the launcher to a hidden location immediately after it had fired, while the launch sequence that usually took 90 minutes, was reduced to half an hour. This enabled them to preserve their forces, despite optimistic claims by the coalition. A post-war Pentagon study concluded that relatively few launchers had been destroyed by coalition aircraft.[25]
Ground based special forces from the United States and the United Kingdom were sent to scout for launchers behind enemy lines, in some cases attacking them directly with MILAN man-portable missiles. A patrol that used the callsign Bravo Two Zero, led by "Andy McNab"(a pseudonym) was captured by the Iraqis.[25]
The mobility of Scud TELs allowed for a choice of firing position and increased the survivability of the weapon system to such an extent that, of the approximately 100 launchers claimed destroyed by coalition pilots and special forces in the Gulf War, not a single destruction could be confirmed afterwards. After the war, UNSCOM investigations showed that Iraq still had 12 MAZ-543 vehicles, as well as seven Al-Waleed and Al-Nidal launchers, and 62 complete Al-Hussein missiles
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http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season2/galactica-209.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X09 - FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Original Airdate (SciFi): 16-SEP-05
Duck: How could anyone fall in love with a toaster, though?
Starbuck: Same way I hear everyone was high-fiving our Sharon right before she put two in Adama's chest. The bastards frak with your head.
Hotdog: Yeah. Just ask the chief.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 8:57 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal June 25, 2006, Supplemental
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I was sitting in a class at Microsoft during the last year or so. Some guy was telling me that he had flown the Apache during the Gulf War. I didn't really believe him as I thought about it. He was watching me for reaction after he said that. That makes me now wonder if I had have flown the Apache, as well as other aircraft.
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http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 62
The Stand
From far off, she heard her voice say, “This whole thing was a script, wasn’t it? A little one-act play.”
“Dear, I don’t understand what you mean.”
“Yes, you do. The mistake was having Lloyd answer so fast. When you say frog around here, they jump. He should have been halfway down the Strip with my cycle. Except you told him to stay put because you never intended to let me go.”
“Dear, you’ve got a terrible case of unfounded paranoia. It was your experience with those men, I suspect. The ones with the traveling zoo. It must have been a terrible thing. This could be a terrible thing, too, and we don’t want that, do we?”
Her strength was draining away; it seemed to be flowing down her legs in perfect lines of force. With the last of her will, she turned her numb right hand into a fist and struck herself above the right eye. There was an airburst of pain inside her skull and her vision went wavery. Her head rocked back and struck the door with a hollow whack. Her gaze snapped away from his, and she felt her will returning. And her strength to resist.
“Oh, you’re good,” she said raggedly.
“You know who it is,” he said. He got off the desk and began to walk toward her. “You know and you’re going to tell me. Punching yourself in the head won’t help, dear.”
“How come you don’t know?” she cried at him. “You knew about the Judge and you knew about me! How come you don’t know about—”
His hands descended on her shoulders with terrible power, and they were cold, as cold as marble. “Who?”
“I don’t know.”
He shook her like a ragdoll, his face grinning and fierce and terrible. His hands were cold, but his face gave off the baking oven heat of the desert. “You know. Tell me. Who?”
“Why don’t you know? ”
“Because I can’t see it! ” he roared
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 55
“Some people through history have considered the insane and the retarded to be close to divine. I don’t think he told us anything that can be of practical use to us, but I know he scared the hell out of me. Magic, he said. How do you fight magic?”
“It’s over my head, that’s all,” Ralph muttered. “Those things he said about Mother Abagail, I don’t even want to think about them. Wake him up, Stu, and let’s get out of here as quick as we can.” Ralph was close to tears.
Stu leaned forward again. “Tom?”
“Yes.”
“Would you like to see an elephant?”
Tom’s eyes opened at once and he looked around at them. “I told you it wouldn’t work,” he said. “Laws, no. Tom doesn’t get sleepy in the middle of the day.”
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot?
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http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season2/galactica-209.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X09 - FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Original Airdate (SciFi): 16-SEP-05
The episode ends with Tyrol visiting Boomer's cell. The both pick up a phone to talk to one another. We don't see/hear the conversation.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/10/2006 12:55 PM
Another highly relevant memory is of something I thought of a great deal at Microsoft. It was from a consulting skills exercise that I worked on twice. I think it was part of the MSF training class. There was this one exercise that is the relevant subject. In the exercise, several of us got together and we were supposed to pass written messages among of us, but along a certain line of communication. We were organized something like a pyramid and there was one person at the top, one person in the middle and three other people at the bottom. The second time I did it, I was in the top position. And that time, we were all seated and I had my back to those people in the two other positions. The relevance of that exercise is in listening to the comments of the three people at the bottom of the organization and then comparing their comments with what I was thinking. It was very revealing. But I suspect now that I knew all those concepts already, all it did was awaken certain aspects of my real identity.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/10/2006 1:01 PM
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/335/
Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore--
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore--
Nameless here for evermore.
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http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season2/galactica-209.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X09 - FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Original Airdate (SciFi): 16-SEP-05
Galactica - Hangar
=========================================
Tyrol continues his inspection. The scene is mixed with his memories of sensual moments with Boomer.
Tyrol: I knew it.
He finds a serious problems and labels the viper as scrap.
Tyrol: I need a drink.
1990 film "Fire Birds" DVD video:
00:22:58
Jake Preston: Can't we at least be friends?
Billie Lee Guthrie: Yeah. We can just be best of friends.
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season2/galactica-209.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X09 - FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Original Airdate (SciFi): 16-SEP-05
Seelix: Tan, rested, ready. Look at you.
Cally: Rested, anyway. Nothing to do but eat and sleep in the can. Hey.
Jammer: "Unauthorized discharge of a firearm"? What a bogus charge.
Cally: I know.
Figurski: They should have given you a medal for popping that toaster.
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season2/galactica-209.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X09 - FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Original Airdate (SciFi): 16-SEP-05
Galactica - Hangar
=========================================
Helo: Hey! Look, chief. I never intended for sharon and I to-- You know, it just kind of evolved.
Tyrol: Just a couple lovesick kids, huh?
Helo: I know how she felt about you, okay? She loves you.
Tyrol: Did she fill you in on the rest of the plan? She and I were going to muster out at the end of our service. You know, then we would get married. Maybe we would have children. I guess I'm just a big frakkin' idiot, though, huh? Probably that goddamn toaster's plan all along.
Helo: Don't call her that.
Tyrol: Sucker some moron into giving her a kid. Hey, you know, but you know what? I should probably be grateful to you. Probably be grateful. You know why? Because that freak in her belly could have been mine.
Helo pushes Tyrol down the raptor wing.
Helo: Hey, you okay? I'm sorry.
Tyrol: Son of a--
Tyrol pucnhes him. Helo tries to end the fighting.
Helo: That's enough, Chief!
Tyrol: You don't get to call it.
They continue brawling
Helo: Enough!
Tyrol: Come on, you damn toaster lover!
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/09/07 9:43 PM
So there are probably some pointers out there to when I first flew a helicopter by myself, which I assume was when I was 6 years old.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/09/07 9:44 PM
As soon as the final key turns associated with that particular detail locked in my mind, I should know where to start finding those details.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/09/07 10:16 PM
I want to say my first helo flight by myself was before 9/2/1965 but I'm not sure. I would think it was more than 2 months before 11/14/1965 though.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/09/07 10:29 PM
So what could be that date. It's possible it is encoded into the first flight of the Apache
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/24/08 4:32 AM
From 3/14/1965 ( ) to 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford includes law degree ) is: 2970 days
From 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford includes law degree ) to 6/18/1981 ( I was test pilot Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter jet ) is: 2970 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-117
18 June 1981
The Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is a stealth ground attack aircraft
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From 1/4/1996 ( the first flight RAH-66 Comanche helicopter ) To 6/9/2000 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series "The Invisible Man" ) is 1618 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/8/1970 ( premiere US film "Colossus: The Forbin Project" ) is 1618 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-invisible-man.html ]
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-invisible-man/pilot-1-43560/
tv.com
The Invisible Man Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot (1)
AIRED: 6/9/00
http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/comanche.html
BOEING
RAH-66 Comanche
First flight: Jan. 4, 1996
Classification: Armed reconnaissance helicopter
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season2/galactica-209.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X09 - FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Original Airdate (SciFi): 16-SEP-05
Galactica - Hangar
=========================================
The blackbird is completed. It's black and angular much like a stealth fighter
Apollo: Carbon composite.
Starbuck: Good call, Helo.
Apollo: It's going to be hard as hell to see on dradis, but the question is, will it fly?
Starbuck: Just watch me.
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season2/galactica-209.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X09 - FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Original Airdate (SciFi): 16-SEP-05
Galactica - Launch Bay
=========================================
Starbuck: Instruments... in the green. Fuel pressure... nominal.
Dualla: Apollo, Starbuck. Blackbird flight is cleared for launch.
Starbuck: Run-up.
Kelly: Maglock secure, initiate launch sequence.
Starbuck: Oh, don't blow up on me, you bastard.
Kelly: You are clear for launch.
The blackbird launches
Dualla: Blackbird is away.
Space
=========================================
Starbuck is having some difficulty keeping the blackbird flying straight. It looks like she's showing off
Apollo: Hey! Hey. Will you take it easy? Start slow. You're testing the ship. It's not about the pilot showing off.
Starbuck: I'm not showing off.
Apollo: Gods damn it, what is this? What are you trying to prove?
Starbuck: I'm not trying to prove anything. You've got to be kidding me. Whoo! Oh, lords. Okay. Let's see what this baby can do. Yaa-ha-ha-ha!
Starbuck gains control of the ship. She presses the throttle and dissappears.
Apollo: Starbuck, where are you? Starbuck, do you hear me? Starbuck! She's gone. Galactica, Apollo, I've lost her. I've lost her.
Dualla: No dradis contact.
Apollo: Starbuck, Starbuck, where are you? Starbuck, come in. Starbuck, do you read? Kara, are you okay?
Starbuck: Of course you lost contact. It's a damned stealth ship, remember?
http://www.e-reading.co.uk/bookreader.php/1016710/Clancy_-_Debt_Of_Honor.html
Debt Of Honor
Tom Clancy
Chapter 42.
Lightning Strikes
His threat receiver was going slightly nuts. The screen was all reds and yellows, and the female voice was telling him that he'd been detected, but in this case he knew better than the computer did, Richter thought, and it was nice to know that the goddamned things didn't quite get everything right.
Just the flying part was hard enough, and though the Apache might have had the agility for the mission, it was better to be in the RAH-66. His body displayed no obvious tension. Years of practice allowed him to sit comfortably in the armored seat, his right forearm resting on the space provided while his hand worked the sidestick controller. His head traced regularly around the sky, and his eyes automatically compared the real horizon with the one generated by the sensing gear located in the aircraft's nose. The Tokyo skyline was just perfect for what he was doing. The various buildings had to be generating all manner of confusing signals for the radar aircraft he was closing on, and the best of computer systems could not defeat this sort of clutter. Better yet, he had the time to do it right.
The river Tone would take him most of the way he needed to go, and on the south side of the river was a rail line, and on the rail line was a train that would go all the way to Choshi. The train was cruising at over a hundred knots, and he took position right over it, one eye on the train below while another kept track of a moving indicator on his threat-receiver display. He held one hundred feet over the tops of the catenary towers, pacing the train exactly, just over the last car in the "consist."
"That's funny." The operator on Kami-Two noticed a blip, enhanced by the computer systems, closing in on the position of his aircraft. He keyed the intercom for the senior controller. "Possible low-level inbound," he reported, highlighting the contact and crossloading it for the crew commander.
"It's a train," the man replied at once, comparing the location with a map overlay. The problem with flying these damned things too close to land. The standard discrimination software, originally purchased from the Americans, had been modified, but not in all details. The airborne radar could track anything that moved, but there wasn't enough computer power in all the world to classify and display all the contacts that would develop from cars and trucks moving on the highways under the aircraft. To de-clutter the screens, nothing going slower than one hundred fifty kilometers per hour was passed through the computer-filtering system, but over land even that was not good enough, not over the country with the world's finest trains. Just to be sure, the senior officer watched the blip for a few seconds. Yes, it was following the mainline from Tokyo to Choshi. It couldn't possibly be a jet aircraft. A helicopter, theoretically, could do something like this, but from the weak character of the signal, it was probably just scatter off the metal roof of the train, and probably reflection off the catenary towers.
"Adjust your MTI-discriminator to two hundred," he ordered his people. It took three seconds for all of them to do that, and sure enough, that moving blip by the Tone and two other more obvious ground contacts disappeared. They had more interesting things to do
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/414057/Nicholas-I
Encyclopædia Britannica
Nicholas I
Nicholas I, Montenegrin in full Nikola Petrovic (born Oct. 7 [Sept. 25, old style], 1841, Njegoš, Montenegro—died March 2, 1921, Antibes, Fr.), prince (1860–1910) and then king (1910–18) of Montenegro
Styling himself “Royal Highness” (December 1900), Nicholas became more despotic until he was forced to grant a constitution in 1905. Political dissension, nevertheless, continued, culminating in the Cetinje bomb plot against him (1907). On Aug. 28, 1910, Nicholas declared himself king.
From 8/28/1910 ( the Kingdom of Montenegro created ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 29704 days
29704 = 14852 + 14852
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 4/27/1951 ( premiere US film "The First Legion" ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 14852 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 4/27/1951 ( premiere US film "Cold War" ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 14852 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 10/27/1955 ( premiere US film "Rebel Without a Cause" ) To 6/25/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Independence Day" ) is 14852 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 6/29/1943 ( premiere US film "Yanks Ahoy" ) To 2/26/1984 ( premiere US TV movie "Lace" ) is 14852 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 12/15/1989 ( premiere US film "Glory" ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 6043 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/20/1982 ( premiere US TV movie "Lily for President?" ) is 6043 days
From 4/7/1958 ( premiere US film "St. Louis Blues" ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 17618 days
17618 = 8809 + 8809
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/15/1989 ( premiere US film "Glory" ) is 8809 days
From 3/28/1948 ( premiere US film "Oklahoma Blues" ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 4212 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/15/1977 ( premiere US TV movie "The Father Knows Best Reunion" ) is 4212 days
From 4/22/1954 ( McCarthy Army hearings begin ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 14852 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 1/30/1959 ( premiere US film "The Last Blitzkrieg" ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) is 8660 days
From 11/19/1948 ( premiere US film "Fighter Squadron" ) To 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) is 14852 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 5/20/1950 ( the first observance of Armed Forces Day in the United States ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 14852 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 3/11/1873 ( David Horsley ) To 7/9/1954 ( premiere US film "Apache" ) is 29704 days
29704 = 14852 + 14852
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 5587 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/18/1981 ( John Knudsen Northrop deceased ) is 5587 days
From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 4912 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/15/1979 ( premiere US TV movie "The Billion Dollar Threat" ) is 4912 days
From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 4912 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/15/1979 ( the Montenegro earthquake ) is 4912 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the US space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother US Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the US Marine Corps officer and STS-71 pilot astronaut ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 4021 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/5/1976 ( premiere US film "Assault on Precinct 13" ) is 4021 days
From 3/12/1947 ( the Truman Doctrine speech ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the US space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother US Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the US Marine Corps officer and STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 10831 days
From 6/16/1955 ( premiere US film "Lady and the Tramp" ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 18644 days
18644 = 9322 + 9322
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Monaco Grand Prix ) is 9322 days
From 2/28/1927 ( construction begins on Charles Lindbergh's airplane The Spirit of St. Louis ) To 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) is 14852 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 2/1/1954 ( Billy Mumy ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 19144 days
19144 = 9572 + 9572
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1992 ( premiere US film "Freejack" ) is 9572 days
From 11/3/1961 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"It's a Good Life" ) To 7/3/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Men in Black II" ) is 14852 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 6/3/1983 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "WarGames" ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 8430 days
8430 = 4215 + 4215
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/18/1977 ( the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation introduced by Ted Kennedy ) is 4215 days
From 2/4/1902 ( Charles Lindbergh ) To 6/3/1983 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "WarGames" ) is 29704 days
29704 = 14852 + 14852
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 4/6/1917 ( Woodrow Wilson declares war on Germany ) To 8/3/1998 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) is 29704 days
29704 = 14852 + 14852
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 8/3/1998 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 2890 days
2890 = 1445 + 1445
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/17/1969 ( premiere US TV series episode "Hogan's Heroes"::"The Gasoline War" ) is 1445 days
From 8/1/1961 ( the United States Defense Intelligence Agency established ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 16406 days
16406 = 8203 + 8203
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis - my biological brother US Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan and I US Navy FC2 Kerry Wayne Burgess are both at the same time onboard the United States Navy warship USS Wainwright CG 28 when it evaded a Harpoon anti-ship missile from hostile Iran-Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush-Axis of Evil-Soviet Union-Communist forces but 2 United States Marine Corps aviators launched from USS Wainwright CG 28 killed this day ) is 8203 days
From 9/23/1957 ( premiere US TV series "The Restless Gun" ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 17814 days
17814 = 8907 + 8907
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/23/1990 ( premiere US film "Pretty Woman" ) is 8907 days
From 12/7/1952 ( premiere US film "Babes in Bagdad" ) To 8/6/1993 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "The Fugitive" ) is 14852 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 14852 days
From 12/25/1950 ( Karl Rove ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 20278 days
20278 = 10139 + 10139
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/6/1993 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "The Fugitive" ) is 10139 days
From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 12608 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/10/2000 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Battlefield Earth" ) is 12608 days
From 3/24/1970 ( George Walker Bush was never a pilot qualified or even capable of controlled flight in any jet aircraft of any branch of the United States of America military ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 13249 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/10/2002 ( premiere US TV series episode "Futurama"::"Love and Rocket" ) is 13249 days
From 9/21/1997 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 3206 days
3206 = 1603 + 1603
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/24/1970 ( George Walker Bush was never a pilot qualified or even capable of controlled flight in any jet aircraft of any branch of the United States of America military ) is 1603 days
From 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) To 7/2/2006 ( premiere US TV series episode "There's Hope America"::"Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines" ) is 2764 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/28/1973 ( premiere US TV series "Praise the Lord" ) is 2764 days
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There's Hope America (TV Series)
Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines (2006)
Release Info
USA 2 July 2006
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There's Hope America: Season 23, Episode 27
Capt. Scott O'Grady: His Amazing Survival Story Behind Enemy Lines (2 Jul. 2006)
TV Episode
Scott O'Grady ... Himself (as Capt. Scott O'Grady USAF)
Release Date: 2 July 2006 (USA)
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Cold War (1951)
Release Info
USA 27 April 1951
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Independence Day [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
:30:00
- How did you do that?
- I gave it a cold.
:30:05
I gave it a virus. A computer virus.
:30:09
Are you telling us you can send out a signal
that will disable all their shields?
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Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Release Info
USA 27 October 1955
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Independence Day (1996) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Release Info
USA 25 June 1996 (Westwood, California) (premiere)
1996 film "Independence Day" 'Special Edition' DVD video:
01:17:59
Thomas Whitmore: Why don't you show them what you've discovered so far, figure out what they haven't thought of yet, and we'll see if you're as smart as we all *hope* you are.
Dr. Brackish Okun: What code?
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Yanks Ahoy (1943)
Release Info
USA 29 June 1943
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TCM
Lace (1984)
Aired in United States February 26, 1984
Aired in United States February 27, 1984
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Lace (1984 TV Movie)
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USA 26 February 1984
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Lace (1984 TV Movie)
Full Cast & Crew
Phoebe Cates ... Lili
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Lily for President? (1982 TV Special)
Release Info
USA 20 May 1982
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Glory (1989)
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USA 15 December 1989
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Glory (1989)
Full Cast & Crew
Matthew Broderick ... Col. Robert Gould Shaw
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WarGames (1983)
Quotes
Joshua: Shall we play a game?
David Lightman: Oh!
Jennifer: [giggles] I think it missed him.
David Lightman: Yeah. Weird isn't it?
Jennifer: Yeah.
David Lightman: [typing] Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
[Jennifer laughs]
David Lightman: [typing] Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
Joshua: Fine.
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The Last Blitzkrieg (1959)
Release Info
USA 30 January 1959 (New York City, New York)
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The Last Blitzkrieg (1959)
The fanatical son of a Nazi General leads a squad of German commandos, disguised as American Troops, behind the lines in order to sabotage the Allied Forces.
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Fighter Squadron (1948)
Release Info
USA 19 November 1948 (New York City, New York)
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Shadow Warriors (2002)
Clancy, Tom - Nf - Commanders
XII
SHADOWS IN THE STORM
From the very beginning, the air campaign was seen as essential to the success of the mission. The coalition planners hoped to decimate and terrorize the Iraqis before launching ground troops. Not only would that increase the odds of quick success, but it would lessen the number of casualties, an important political consideration.
The air attack itself could be broken into distinct phases. The most critical would occur at the very beginning, when the Iraqis' vast network of integrated antiair defenses had to be neutralized. Based largely on a Soviet model and heavily reliant on Russian weapons, Iraqi air defenses included a sophisticated network of advance warning and localized radars, a wide range of surface-to-air missiles, front-line fighters like the MiG-29, and a large number of antiaircraft artillery batteries that, though primitive, remained deadly. The multilayered defenses had to be neutralized as quickly as possible to give coalition aircraft freedom to operate over Iraq at will.
The first strike had to be massive and quick, but it also had to be stealthy. That meant cruise missiles and the still largely untested F-117A Stealth Fighter would have key roles in the operation. But there were too few of these to cover the vast number of Iraqi air defense units, and the sheer size of the country made it difficult to orchestrate an effective attack everywhere at once.
As plans developed, it became clear that one of the keys to the first-day mission would be the destruction of two Iraqi early-warning radars guarding the country's southwestern frontier. While most of Iraq's early-warning radars were sited to cover one another (if one went out, others made up for the loss), eliminating these two sites would provide a "black" corridor for planes flving north.
The hole would be especially useful for F-15E Strike Eagles targeted to hit Scud missiles in the first hours of the air war. Destroying those missiles had become a top priority, since their launch against Israel might prompt retaliatory raids, which in turn could threaten the fragile allied coalition.
However, striking the radars, though obviously desirable, brought serious problems. An attack on these sites would take resources from other high-priority Iraqi assets. More important, it could also warn the rest of the defense network. To avoid such a result, the sites would have to be knocked out simultancously, but the large number of individual radars and support facilities at each site made it difficult to coordinate comprehensive, effective bombing raids that would achieve that end.
As General Glosson contemplated the plans, a Special Forces officer, Captain Randy O'Boyle, joined his staff to help coordinate Special Forces operations. An experienced flight examiner and planner, Captain O'Boyle had particular expertise with MH-53J Pave Low helicopters, which had come to the Gulf with the 20th Special Operations Squadron, part of the Air Force Special Operations Command. In September, he became the helicopter advisor in the planning cell for the air campaign.
After examining the developing plans, O'Boyle realized that the early-warning radars would be perfect targets for Special Operations ground forces. Glosson agreed. General Schwarzkopf did not. When this plan was presented to him, he exploded. The CINC was not prepared to commit ground forces across the border until he was ready. An alternative had to be found.
In the meantime, the radars were moved back about twenty miles from their original position a mile or so from the border. A ground assault became impractical.
Jesse Johnson then considered making the attack with his Pave Lows, but while the MH-53s were highly capable aircraft, they were optimized for clandestine insertion and extraction missions, not blowing things up. They were big and fast, and able to operate in bad weather and at night, but their heaviest weapons were only. 50-caliber machine guns. The helicopters' commander, Lieutenant Colonel Rich Comer, believed his machine guns could destroy the large dishes, but probably not before the Iraqis had time to call their headquarters.
There were helicopters in the Gulf that had more than enough firepower to eliminate the dishes quickly, however--Army Apaches. Decked out with I Iellfire missiles and 30mm chain guns, the AH-64s could make short work of the installations.
If they could find them. Though their pilots were well-versed in night fighting, the Apache helicopters were primarily designed for engagements with tanks and armored formations, which are easy to find, even at night. The desert in that part of the world is empty, landmarks arc virtually nonexistent, and Apaches did not come equipped with the sophisticated navigation and sensor equipment aboard the Air Force birds. The Apaches would have trouble finding the targets at night.
The obvious solution was to combine Pave Lows (for guidance) with Apaches (for firepower). And that was the solution chosen. The Pave Lows would lead the Apaches to the sites, then step aside as their smaller brethren went to work. A simple notion, yet one that had never been tried, even in training. And it wasn't simply a situation where Air Force guys would climb in their birds, take off, and let the Army guys hang on to their tails. Different service cultures had to be coordinated; likewise communications gear. There were other, even more practical, problems: The Apaches' limited range would have to be increased, and their weapons, optimized for armor attacks, would have to be tested for effectiveness against radars and their vans.
The Apache commander, Lieutenant Colonel Dick Cody, quickly came on board and adapted his unit's tactics and aircraft for the mission. He welded 1,500-gallon tanks to the bottom of his helos and conducted live-fire practice sessions with Hellfire antitank missiles to make sure they would explode when striking the comparatively soft targets.
They did. The plan--called EAGER ANVIL--proceeded.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Opera 2006
Raid On The Sun
Looks like an interesting book. Judging by all the people trying to look at the book cover as I was walking by them, there must be a great deal of interest in the topic.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Opera 2006
I am eager to finish this book. But I am having a lot of trouble concentrating.
I read about one sentence and then my mind drifts off for about 2 minutes. Now it'll be 3 minutes as I know people will start watching me reading.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
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DTIC DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER
THE GULF WAR
AN AIRMAN'S PERSPECTIVE
Page 16
To prepare for the initiation of hostilities while keeping the full scope of the Phase I strategic air campaign secret, the Black Hole developed a highly simplified version of the ATO to cover the first 48 hours of war. This was later expanded to 72 hours. Known as "the Master Attack Plan" and code named Operation Eager Anvil, this plan was constantly revised up to the final days before implementation. Few at any level in the theater were privy to the complete plan. The success of this mechanism in allowing planners to maintain a coherent picture of air campaign objectives, while ensuring complete surprise at the outbreak of hostilities, was one of the unqualified achievements of the war.
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a573930.pdf
DTIC DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER
THE GULF WAR
AN AIRMAN'S PERSPECTIVE
Page 19
What Happened - Execution
Day One of Desert Storm
On the day before the Operation Eager Anvil attack plan was initiated. Coalition forces displayed no change in the intensity of operations. F-16s substituted for F-15s on CAP missions so that the latter could gain downtime in the hours immediately before war, and Glosson had planned a simulated F-117 crash to distract the Iraqis. The latter was cancelled because the AWACS that was to "report" the crash air-aborted and there was not enough time to get the personnel involved back on station. As it happened, the simulation proved unnecessary. The pattern of activity in the last minutes of peace was sufficiently familiar to mislead Iraqi controllers. They failed to react until the hammer blows had begun falling.
In the last hours before war, the mood among senior American military leaders was one of cautious optimism. Veterans of the misshapen air campaigns against North Vietnam, they felt confident that preparations for combat in the Gulf - at both the tactical and operational levels - were significantly better. At the strategic level, Coalition political leaders had given them clear goals, accepted their plans to achieve those goals, and provided the forces they had requested. Warriors and politicians had never seemed to work in harness better. Nevertheless, these men remembered the confusion, uncertainty, and lack of resolve that had surfaced time and again to interfere with operations in Southeast Asia, and they knew the terrible environment into which they were committing their forces. Baghdad was more heavily defended than Hanoi had been at any time during the Vietnam War and posed a more formidable array of antiaircraft missiles and guns than any Eastern European city during the Cold War.
The First Night
H-hour was chosen for 0300 on 17 January 1991, the precise time at which Allied probing had revealed Iraqi defenses to be at their ebb. The initial steps on the road to Desert Storm had been taken the day before at 1535 (Baghdad time), when the first of seven B-52s armed with conventional air-launched cruise missiles lumbered down the runway at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, and began a 17-hour journey to their launch position in Saudi Arabia. Some 8 hours later, while the venerable "Buffs" were still little more than halfway to the theater. Coalition air forces began to lift off into the night towards the showdown that Saddam had made necessary. At 0130 on 17 January, the Coalition committed itself to combat with the launch of 52 conventionally armed Tomahawk cruise missiles (tactical land attack missiles or TLAMs) from USN warships ringing the AOR. Unlike manned aircraft, the TLAMs were incapable of being recalled. The air battle had begun in earnest; there was no turning back.
Planners in the Black Hole had anticipated that the first shots to hit the enemy would be those of F-15Cs assigned to down Iraq's AWACS aircraft, Adnan I and Baghdad 1, at 0230. Neither aircraft flew that night, so the first blood went to "Task Force Normandy," a force of three Apache helicopters. Guided to their targets by three MH-53 Pave Low helicopters, the Apaches struck two early warning sites in the air defense "seam" on the Iraqi frontier at 0239, 21 minutes before H-hour. This first mission opened a corridor for several packages of aircraft tasked to attack Scud sites, airfields, and chemical weapon storage bunkers in the first few minutes of the war.
http://www.defense.gov/afd/history.aspx
U.S. Department of Defense
Armed Forces Day History
On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy and Air Force Days. The single-day celebration stemmed from the unification of the Armed Forces under one department -- the Department of Defense. Each of the military leagues and orders was asked to drop sponsorship of its specific service day in order to celebrate the newly announced Armed Forces Day. The Army, Navy and Air Force leagues adopted the newly formed day. The Marine Corps League declined to drop support for Marine Corps Day but supports Armed Forces Day, too.
In a speech announcing the formation of the day, President Truman "praised the work of the military services at home and across the seas" and said, "it is vital to the security of the nation and to the establishment of a desirable peace." In an excerpt from the Presidential Proclamation of Feb. 27, 1950, Mr. Truman stated:
"Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 20, 1950, marks the first combined demonstration by America's defense team of its progress, under the National Security Act, towards the goal of readiness for any eventuality. It is the first parade of preparedness by the unified forces of our land, sea, and air defense".
The theme of the first Armed Forces Day was "Teamed for Defense." It was chosen as a means of expressing the unification of all the military forces under a single department of the government. Although this was the theme for the day, there were several other purposes for holding Armed Forces Day. It was a type of "educational program for civilians," one in which there would be an increased awareness of the Armed Forces. It was designed to expand public understanding of what type of job is performed and the role of the military in civilian life. It was a day for the military to show "state-of- the-art" equipment to the civilian population they were protecting.
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/armed-forces-day
timeanddate.com
Armed Forces Day in United States
The first Armed Forces Day was celebrated on Saturday, May 20, 1950. The theme for that day was “Teamed for Defense”, which expressed the unification of all military forces under one government department. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the day was designed to expand public understanding of what type of job was performed and the role of the military in civilian life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977/quotes
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The Fugitive (1993)
Quotes
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Newman, get rid of the helicopter!
Newman: Why?
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: 'Cause I don't want to get shot.
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David Horsley
Biography
Date of Birth 11 March 1873 , West Stanley, England, UK
Date of Death 23 February 1933 , Sunland, California, USA
On January 18, 1884, while on an errand for his mother, young David was struck down by a coal train locomotive as he crossed the tracks and lost three fingers, severed by the train wheels. Ultimately, his arm was amputated
When he was 19, Horsely opened up a bicycle shop, hand-making bicycles despite his handicap. In 1903, he bought a piece of land and built a pool hall in Bayonne, becoming its proprietor. Unfortunately, his business was wiped out by the Panic (or recession) 1907. He and one of his regular customers, Charles Gorman, decided to try their hand in the movie business. Gorman had been a scenic artist at the Biograph Motion Picture Co, in New York, but had lost his job during the recession. Gorman had the know-how about the movie industry, and Horsely had the land for a crude studio and also possessed the mechanical skills to build a movie camera from the parts of old projector.
The Centaur Film Co. struggled during the first three years of its existence, subsisting on borrowed money from relatives. It faced a monumental crisis at the end of its first year of operation, when the Patents Company was created in 1908 to pool motion picture equipment patents, including the Lanham loop that was necessary for film to be fed correctly into a movie camera. The Patents Co. refused to give Centaur a license to operate as it was such a fly-by-night operation, turning down Horsely's application for a license three times. The Patent Co. figured that by denying Horsely a license, they would drive Centaur out of business. The Patent Co., which became known as "The Trust," aimed to monopolize the manufacture, distribution, and exhibition of films.
The Patents Co. created the General Film Co. to deal with film exchanges and to rent films to the exhibitors. The General Film Co. collected a weekly licensing fee of $2 on every projector in the United States for the use of the Lanham loop, a situation that was deeply resented by exhibitors. Exhibitors who refused to pay the $2 license fee were denied films, and thus were deprived of their livelihood. The General Film Co. opened its own film exchanges to rent films, and it cut off the supply of films to other film exchanges.
The Eastman Kodak Co. refused to sell Horsely raw film stock to make his one-reel pictures, as their contract with the Patents Co. and General Film Co. had them boycott non-Trust filmmakers. Horsely thus had to import his raw film stock from the Austin Edwards Co. in England.
When film exchange executives converged on New York to challenge the monopoly implemented by the Trust, they were directed to meet David Horsley, whose Centaur Film was holding up under the challenge. In order to improve his ability to compete successfully against the Patents Co. and General Film, Horsely decided to help the film exchange people become producers of movies like himself as he knew he wouldn't be able to survive for long against The Trust without some help.
Carl Laemmle and Robert H. Cochrane formed the Independent Motion Picture Co. and opened a studio in New York producing one-reel movies called IMPS, while Edwin S. Porter started up Rex pictures and Edwin Thanhauser opened a studio at New Rochelle, New York, while Pat Powers' created Power Pictures. Other companies formed by film exchange personnel to ensure that they received product were Bison, Champion, and Reliance. By 1910, there were as many independent film companies making pictures as there were companies that were part of The Trust. It was difficult for indies to obtain cameras and film as domestically made cameras and film stock were covered by the Patent Co.'s patents and thus would not be sold to filmmakers outside The Trust. Producers were forced to go abroad to get the English Prestwich or Williamson camera, or to France to get a camera from DeBrie, Gaumont, Pathe, or Prevost. Or, they could follow the example of Horsely in the United States or Léo-Ernest Ouimet in Canada and create their own equipment.
To fight The Trust legally, the indies banded together as the Sales Co., headquartered at 14th Street in New York City. The Sales Co. operated as a central exchange, with producers delivering their one-reel films to 14th Street, from whence their product was shipped C.O.D. to buyers at the cost of $100 per reel. The Sales Co. remitted $95 per reel to the filmmaker and kept a $5 per reel fee in order to finance the fight against The Trust. Horsely's Centaur Co. was making one Western, one drama and one Mutt & Jeff comedy per week, all one-reelers, for an output of 120 prints per week. This meant it was remitting $600 per week to the Sales Co., which had an income of about $5,000 to $7,500 per week from all the independent production companies. With these funds, the Sales Co. retained first rate patent attorneys to sue the Patents Co. and put an end to its attempt at monopolizing the motion picture business. The indies eventually won, and even the $2 per week royalty on each projector was terminated by the courts.
The Trust, which had concentrated on technology rather than on the quality of films, had failed to keep up with the development of the crowd-pleasing narrative film, continuing to churn out simple-minded pictorial essays that found little favor with the maturing movie-going audience. Eventually, all the production companies that had dominated the industry before the rise of the indies went out of business, including Edison, Biograph, and Essanay. The last remaining Trust member, Vitagraph, was acquired by Warner Bros.
Due to bad weather conditions in the summer and early fall of 1911, making motion pictures in the New York City area became difficult. In response, Horsely moved Centaur to California, opening the first motion picture studio in Hollywood at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street on October 27, 1911.
He died on February 23, 1933, a forgotten man, barely remembered as one of the men who saved the film industry from The Trust and pioneered Hollywood as a movie making center.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046719/releaseinfo
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Apache (1954)
Release Info
USA 9 July 1954
http://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/truman-doctrine
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE of the HISTORIAN
Milestones: 1945–1952
The Truman Doctrine, 1947
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in far away conflicts.
The Truman Doctrine arose from a speech delivered by President Truman before a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947. The immediate cause for the speech was a recent announcement by the British Government that, as of March 31, it would no longer provide military and economic assistance to the Greek Government in its civil war against the Greek Communist Party. Truman asked Congress to support the Greek Government against the Communists. He also asked Congress to provide assistance for Turkey, since that nation, too, had previously been dependent on British aid.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-space-shuttle-docks-with-russian-space-station
HISTORY
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Jun 29, 1995:
U.S. space shuttle docks with Russian space station
On this day in 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 25, 2006
I also noted that it was exactly a month later when I started that contract job at Microsoft in 1995. I think it was the previous year I drove back to Ashdown for her birthday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-71
The primary objectives of this flight were to rendezvous and perform the first docking between the Space Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir on June 29.
I just realized that the Jeep Grand Cherokee I used to have could represent the space shuttle. Something about that lift gate on the back makes me think about the cargo hold on the shuttle. And that J.G.C. was white too. Could 1995 be the first time I was the commander of a shuttle mission?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 25 July 2006 excerpt ends]
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsref-toc.html
SPACE SHUTTLE
NSTS 1988 News Reference Manual
FLIGHT CREW COMPLEMENT AND CREW TRAINING
The orbiter crew consists of the commander and pilot. Additional crew members are a mission specialist and one or more payload specialists. The commander and a pilot, or pilot-qualified mission specialist, are needed to operate and manage the orbiter.
The commander is responsible for the safety of the crew and has authority throughout the flight to deviate from the flight plan, procedures and assignments if necessary to preserve crew safety or vehicle integrity. The commander is also responsible for the overall execution of the flight plan in compliance with NASA policy, mission rules and Mission Control Center directives.
The pilot, second in command of the flight, assists the commander in all phases of orbiter flight and is delegated certain responsibilities (e.g., during two-shift orbital operations). The commander or the pilot is also available to perform specific payload operations.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/419990/John-Knudsen-Northrop
Encyclopædia Britannica
John Knudsen Northrop
John Knudsen Northrop, (born Nov. 10, 1895, Newark, N.J., U.S.—died Feb. 18, 1981
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ultra
Dictionary.com
ultra
a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, with the basic meaning “on the far side of, beyond.” In relation to the base to which it is prefixed, ultra- has the senses “located beyond, on the far side of”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/space
Dictionary.com
space
the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
1992 film "Freejack" DVD video:
00:56:30
Reporter: You got a name, sugar?
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Julia Roberts
Biography
Date of Birth 28 October 1967 , Smyrna, Georgia, USA
Birth Name Julia Fiona Roberts
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/hall/spirit.asp
CHARLES LINDBERGH
The Spirit of St. Louis Story
February 28, 1927, The Spirit of St. Louis begins
Officially starting work on February 28, this meant long hours of design, weight & balance analysis, stress analysis, drafting, inspection (Hall doubled as the parts inspector), performance analysis, and flight-test engineering. At one point Hall worked 36 hours straight, since his design work had to be finished if the Ryan manufacturing teams were to remain busy. Hall would eventually log eight 90-hour weeks to reach his 60-day goal. Utilizing the best of successful military and commercial airplanes, while incorporating a few parts from the M-2 that were practical to save time and cut costs, Hall relied on his aeronautical experience and Lindbergh's piloting expertise to push the limit.
http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/a-mailplane-for-lindbergh-161680374/
AIR & SPACE Smithsonian
A Mailplane for Lindbergh
Donald Hall's 1927 rush job.
By Tom Leech
Air & Space Magazine
July 2011
Leech: When did the Spirit activity get started? Did it take you just 60 days?
Hall: The contract was signed Friday, February 25. We started about the 28th
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The Fugitive (1993)
Quotes
Marshal Henry: I may be crazy but that train sounds like an el.
Cosmo Renfro: St Louis doesn't have an elevated train.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: How do you know it's an elevated train?
Marshal Stevens: I think he's right, I lived under an el for 20 years.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Then you can explain the difference in the sound of an elevated train as opposed to a train that's running along the ground. You must have ears like a eagle, play that back, I wanna hear the sound of an elevated train.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052234/releaseinfo
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St. Louis Blues (1958)
Release Info
USA 7 April 1958
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Glory (1989)
Quotes
Major Forbes: [as Col. Shaw is writing, Maj. Forbes approaches him with a letter from President Lincoln] They've done it.
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: [Shaw reads the letter] Assemble the men.
[54th is in formation in the pouring rain in the Camp Readville common area]
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: In accordance with President Lincoln's wishes, you men are advised that the Confederate Congress has issued a proclamation. It reads: 'Any negro taken in arms against the Confederacy will immediately be returned to a state of slavery. Any negro taken in Federal uniform will be summarily put to death. Any white officer taken in command of negro troops shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection and shall likewise be put to death.' Full discharges will be granted in the morning to all those who apply. Dismissed.
http://www.cswap.com/1993/The_Fugitive/cap/en/25fps/a/00_43
The Fugitive
:43:49
All right, we got him. He shacked up
with some babe over in Whiting.
:43:52
She left work tonight and took him home.
:43:55
-About two hours ago, her boss said.
-They spotted her car outside her house.
:44:00
Does she run with anyone?
:44:02
No one we could find. No family either.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930808&slug=1714886
The Seattle Times
Sunday, August 8, 1993
England -- Playing The Palace: Royal Open House Has Begun
By William Tuohy
Los Angeles Times
LONDON - Like many of her noble subjects, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is bowing this summer to the sometimes cruel realities of modern economics.
Over the years, most of the stately homes in Britain have admitted the paying public to help finance upkeep. The list includes parts of Windsor Castle and the Princess of Wales' ancestral estate, Althorp House.
But never - until now - has the world's most famous royal residence and headquarters of the British monarchy been opened for public tours.
For eight weeks (beginning yesterday), however, that all is changing as Buckingham Palace hosts an anticipated 450,000 visitors willing to pay an adult admission of $12 for a peek at 18 of the more than 600 rooms in the palace.
The queen's motive for inviting the public to view the sumptuous staterooms of Buckingham Palace is a variation on the one that has opened all those other stately homes: She hopes to help pay for restoration of Windsor Castle, which was badly damaged in a fire last November.
The mother of all queues
The decision is being widely applauded here as giving her subjects a chance to see their monarchical heritage up close. And the anticipated lineup for the 7,000 tickets to be sold daily is already being referred to as "the mother of all queues."
"It's going to be the No. 1 attraction," said Isabel Coy, an official with the British Tourist Authority. "It's our living heritage. The real Royal Family runs a business from there. It's only open for a limited time, so there's a sort of exclusive cachet."
2003 television miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" DVD video:
00:00:01
Number Six: Are you alive?
Colonial Armistice officer: Yes.
Number Six: Prove it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article788752.ece
From The Sunday Times January 15, 2006
The top 10 footballers' Page 3 playmates
By John Aizlewood
5 Dean Holdsworth and Linsey Dawn McKenzie Psychologists are still baffled as to what attracted Dean Holdsworth to 36GG teenage glamour model Linsey Dawn McKenzie in 1996. Even so, they were soon at it like Duracell bunnies on the bonnet of the then Wimbledon striker’s £83,000 BMW. Alas, there was no future for the bonking duo, for Holdsworth had neglected to mention he was married. “I thought he was a nice bloke, and I wasn’t very happy with the way he rubbished me in the papers,” she wailed. “The press made me out to be a marriage wrecker, and I’m not.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F08.html
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Original airdate in N.A.: 26-Nov-95
Bart: Way to guard the parking lot, Top Gun.
Guard: I have three medals for this.
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The Fugitive (1993)
Quotes
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Newman, what are you doing?
Newman: I'm thinking.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Well, think me up a cup of coffee and a chocolate doughnut with some of those little sprinkles on top, while you're thinking.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044389/releaseinfo
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Babes in Bagdad (1952)
Release Info
USA 7 December 1952
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The Fugitive (1993)
Release Info
USA 6 August 1993
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977/fullcredits
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The Fugitive (1993)
Full Cast & Crew
Tommy Lee Jones ... Samuel Gerard
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977/quotes
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The Fugitive (1993)
Quotes
Newman: I can't hear anything, my ear is... I can't believe you did that.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: You think I should have bargained with that guy?
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The Fugitive (1993)
Quotes
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: [after taking credit for Kimble's saving of his partner and declaring all prisoners dead] Oh. Wow. Gee Whiz. Looky here. You know we're always fascinated when we find leg irons with no legs in them. Who held the keys sir?
Old Guard: Me.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Where those keys at?
Old Guard: I don't know.
Poole: Care to revise your statement, sir?
Old Guard: What?
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Do you want to change you bullshit story, sir?
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The Fugitive (1993)
Quotes
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Give it up. It's time to stop running.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/915036/Karl-Rove
Encyclopædia Britannica
Karl Rove
Karl Rove, in full Karl Christian Rove (born Dec. 25, 1950, Denver, Colo., U.S.), American political consultant and principal architect of U.S. Pres. George W. Bush’s two presidential election campaigns (2000, 2004).
Rove was political even as a young child. He pasted campaign stickers for Richard M. Nixon on his bicycle in 1960
1993 film "The Fugitive" DVD video:
01:24:30
Reporter: Detective Kelly, he's taking all these chances coming back to Chicago, do you now feel that perhaps he might be innocent, that there may be a one-armed man -
Chicago Police Detective Kelly: No, he's not innocent, he was convicted - he was convicted in a court of law. He's guilty.
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The Fugitive (1993)
Quotes
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Sheriff Rawlins, with all due respect, I'd like to suggest check points on a 15 mile radius out here on I-57, I-24 and on route 13 out of Chester...
Sheriff Rawlins: Whoa, whoa, whoa. The prisoners are all dead and the only thing checkpoints are gonna do is get a lot of good people frantic around here and flood my office with calls.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: [deadpan] Well, shit, sheriff, I'd hate to see that happen, so I guess I'll just take over your investigation.
Sheriff Rawlins: [flustered] You? On what authority?
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The Fugitive (1993)
Quotes
Dr. Anne Eastman: Hey, Do you have a particular interest in our paitient's X-Rays?
Dr. Richard Kimble: What do you mean?
Dr. Anne Eastman: I saw you looking at that boy's chest film.
Dr. Richard Kimble: It's a hobby of mine.
Dr. Anne Eastman: It's a hobby, really? What are your other hobbies - brain surgery?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977/quotes
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The Fugitive (1993)
Quotes
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: How'd you lose that arm?
Sykes: In the line of duty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugitive_(TV_series)
The Fugitive (TV series)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fugitive is an American drama series created by Roy Huggins and produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble
Characters
The One-armed Man
A shadowy figure, the one-armed man (Bill Raisch) is seen fleeing Kimble's house by Kimble after the murder of Helen. In the series, not much is revealed about the man's personal life, and how or when he lost his right arm.
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gwbush/bushang.html
FindLaw
Lt. George W. Bush 1972-'73
Texas Air National Guard flight status
Memo ordering Bush's suspension from the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron "due to failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards and failure to meet annual physical examination (flight) as ordered."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deserter
deserter
To forsake one's duty or post, especially to be absent without leave from the armed forces with no intention of returning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Mexico
Crime in Mexico
Crime is among the most urgent concerns facing Mexico, as Mexican drug trafficking rings play a major role in the flow of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana transiting between Latin America and the United States.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/releaseinfo
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Battlefield Earth (2000)
Release Info
USA 10 May 2000 (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/synopsis
IMDb
Synopsis for
Battlefield Earth (2000)
After a week of training, the rebels launch a mass uprising against the Psychlos using Harrier jump-jets
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The Fugitive (1993)
Quotes
Marshal Biggs: This is hinky, this guy's a college graduate, he went to medical school, he's not gonna come through all the security, go to the county lockup, to find someone his one people say does not exist. Hinky.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Well, what does that mean Biggs, 'hinky'?
Marshal Biggs: I don't know. Strange.
Marshal Henry: Weird.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Well, why don't you say strange or weird? I mean hinky, that has no meaning.
Marshal Biggs: Well, we say hinky.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: I don't want you guys using words around me that have no meaning. I'm taking the stairs and walking.
Marshal Biggs: How about 'bullshit?' How about 'bullshit', Sam?
http://www.tv.com/shows/futurama/love-and-rocket-114638/trivia/
tv.com
Futurama Season 4 Episode 4
Love and Rocket
Aired Wednesday 10:00 PM Feb 10, 2002
Quotes
Lrrr: This is ancient Earth's most foolish program. Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?
Nd-Nd: Perhaps they are saving that for sweeps.
Guard: Exalted leaders, the Earth messengers have arrived bearing a peace offering from their weak and fearful government.
Lrrr: Oh, very well. This is a Joey-heavy episode anyway.
http://www.tv.com/shows/futurama/love-and-rocket-114638/trivia/
tv.com
Futurama Season 4 Episode 4
Love and Rocket
Aired Wednesday 10:00 PM Feb 10, 2002
Quotes
Fry: Bender! Are you OK?
Bender: Aw, what crazy thing am I going to date next?
http://www.tv.com/shows/futurama/love-and-rocket-114638/trivia/
tv.com
Futurama Season 4 Episode 4
Love and Rocket
Aired Wednesday 10:00 PM Feb 10, 2002
Quotes
Bender: Fry, in order for me to get busy at maximum efficiency, I need a girl with a big 400-ton booty.
Leela: Bender, dating your co-worker and primary mode of transportation is immoral, illogical and a violation of interstellar shipping statute 437-B.
Bender: That's what makes it so nasty!
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/bush_records/index.html
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/bush_records/PressReleases.pdf
From Immediate Release
spl to The Houston Post
and The Houston Chronicle
w/art
Office of Information
147th Combat Crew Training Group
Texas Air National Guard
Houston, Texas 77034
Ellington AFB, Tex., March 24, 1970---George Walker Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed. Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics[;he just does not call it narcotics but it has always been narcotics. ]
After his [ FRAUDULENT AND NON-EXISTENT FLIGHT ]solo, a milestone in the career of any fighter pilot, Lt. Bush couldn't find enough words to adequately express the feeling of [ FRAUDULENT AND NON-EXISTENT FLIGHT ]solo flight.
Lt. Bush[ GEORGE WALKER BUSH WAS NEVER A PILOT QUALIFIED TO FLY ANY JET AIRCRAFT WITH ANY BRANCH OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY. GEORGE WALKER BUSH WAS NEVER CAPABLE TO FLY ANY JET AIRCRAFT CIVILIAN OR MILITARY ] is the son of [ ESTABLISHED NATIONAL TRAITOR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND SEVERELY TREASONOUS AGENT OF FOREIGN POWER ]U.S Representative George Bush, who is a [ SEVERELY TREASONOUS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND FRAUDULENT ]candidate for the U.S. Senate seat of Senator Ralph Yarborough.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/the-city-of-new-york-vs-homer-simpson-1464/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 9 Episode 1
The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Sep 21, 1997 on FOX
Quotes
Homer: Hehe, Homer one. New York nothin'.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19981207&slug=2787736
The Seattle Times Search
Monday, December 7, 1998
Gates: Smile Would Have Helped, But He Told Truth
By James V. Grimaldi
Seattle Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Bill Gates said he wished he'd smiled more during his videotaped deposition taken before the Microsoft antitrust trial started
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:41:06 -0800 (PST)
From: "Kerry Burgess"
Subject: domestic eavesdropping program
To: "Kerry Burgess"
On the very day I started at Microsoft, December 7, 1998
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 29 July 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.tv.com/shows/praise-the-lord/episodes/
tv.com
Praise the Lord
Premiered May 28, 1973
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949135/releaseinfo
IMDb
Praise the Lord (TV Series)
Let's Just Praise the Lord (1973)
Release Info
USA 28 May 1973
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949135/
IMDb
Praise the Lord: Season 1, Episode 1
Let's Just Praise the Lord (28 May 1973)
TV Episode
This inaugural broadcast of Trinity Broadcasting Network's flagship TV program demonstrates how a ministry's humble beginnings were indeed a miracle in the making!
Release Date: 28 May 1973 (USA)
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/341819/Charles-A-Lindbergh
Encyclopædia Britannica
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh, in full Charles Augustus Lindbergh (born February 4, 1902, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died August 26, 1974, Maui, Hawaii), American aviator
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/releaseinfo
IMDb
WarGames (1983)
Release Info
USA 3 June 1983
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/fullcredits
IMDb
WarGames (1983)
Full Cast & Crew
Matthew Broderick ... David
Ally Sheedy ... Jennifer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078863/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Billion Dollar Threat (1979 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 15 April 1979
http://podgorica.usembassy.gov/commemoration_30_anniversary_of_the_earthquake.html
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
PODGORICA MONTENEGRO
United States Commemorates 30th Anniversary of the Earthquake in Montenegro
On Wednesday, April 15, U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro Roderick W. Moore will participate in a series of events in Bar and Budva to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the earthquake that hit Montenegro, with particularly devastating effects on the coastal region.
An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale, with its epicenter in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Montenegro, struck at 07:19 a.m. on Sunday, April 15, 1979.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_trauma
Ballistic trauma
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.
The degree of tissue disruption caused by a projectile is related to the size of the temporary versus permanent cavity it creates as it passes through tissue.
Non-fatal gunshot wounds frequently have severe and long-lasting effects, even after the victim has made a successful recovery. Typically, the consequences involve some form of major disfigurement and/or permanent disability.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/modestmouse/floaton.html
MODEST MOUSE [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
"Float On"
I backed my car into a cop car the other day
Well he just drove off sometimes life's ok
I ran my mouth off a bit too much oh what did I say
Well you just laughed it off it was all ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on any way well
Well, a fake Jamaican took every last dime with that scam
It was worth it just to learn from sleight-of-hand
Bad news comes don't you worry even when it lands
Good news will work its way to all them plans
We both got fired on the exactly the same day
http://www.cswap.com/1996/Independence_Day/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_22
Independence Day [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
:22:26
- Is it an earthquake?
- Not even a four-pointer.
http://www.cswap.com/1996/Independence_Day/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_25
Independence Day [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
:25:35
Hey! Come on!
:25:37
He's just trying to impress you.
:25:40
If you wanna impress me, you need to get
a job and stop slobberin' all over my shoes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043537/releaseinfo
IMDb
The First Legion (1951)
Release Info
USA 27 April 1951 (New York City, New York)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1739291/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Father Knows Best Reunion (1977 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 15 May 1977
http://www.marines.mil/news/publications/Documents/SecNavInst%201650.1H.pdf
SECNAV INSTRUCTION 1650.1H
From: Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)
Subj: NAVY AND MARINE CORPS AWARDS MANUAL
1. Purpose. To provide guidance and regulations concerning awards available for recognizing individuals and units in the Naval Service.
2. Navy Cross
a. Authorization. 10 U.S.C. S6242.
b. Eligibility Requirements
(1) Awarded to individuals who, while serving in any capacity with the Navy or Marine Corps, distinguish themselves by extraordinary heroism, not justifying the award of the Medal of Honor.
(a) While engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States;
(b) While engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or
(c) While serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force, in which the United States is not a belligerent party.
(2) To warrant this distinctive decoration, the act or execution of duty must be performed in the presence of great danger, or at great personal risk, and must be performed in such a manner as to set individuals apart from their shipmates or fellow Marines. An accumulation of minor acts of heroism normally does not justify the award. The high standards SECNAVINST 1650.1H demanded must be borne in mind when recommending the award.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mccarthy-army-hearings-begin
HISTORY
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Apr 22, 1954:
McCarthy Army hearings begin
Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army, which he charges with being "soft" on communism. These televised hearings gave the American public their first view of McCarthy in action, and his recklessness, indignant bluster, and bullying tactics quickly resulted in his fall from prominence.
In February 1950, Senator McCarthy charged that there were over 200 "known communists" in the Department of State. Thus began his dizzying rise to fame as the most famous and feared communist hunter in the United States. McCarthy adeptly manipulated the media, told ever more outrageous stories concerning the communist conspiracy in the United States, and smeared any opponents as "communist sympathizers" to keep his own name in the headlines for years. By 1954, however, his power was beginning to wane. While he had been useful to the Republican Party during the years of the Democratic administration of President Harry S. Truman, his continued attacks on "communists in government" after Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower took over the White House in 1953 were becoming political liabilities.
In an effort to reinvigorate his declining popularity, McCarthy made a dramatic accusation that was a crucial mistake: in early 1954, he charged that the United States Army was "soft" on communism. McCarthy was indignant because David Schine, one of his former investigators, had been drafted and the Army, much to McCarthy's surprise, refused the special treatment he demanded for his former aide. In April 1954, McCarthy, chairman of the Government Operations Committee in the Senate, opened televised hearings into his charges against the Army.
The hearings were a fiasco for McCarthy. He constantly interrupted with irrelevant questions and asides; yelled "point of order" whenever testimony was not to his liking; and verbally attacked witnesses, attorneys for the Army, and his fellow senators. The climax came when McCarthy slandered an associate of the Army's chief counsel, Joseph Welch. Welch fixed McCarthy with a steady glare and declared evenly, "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness...Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" A stunned McCarthy listened as the packed audience exploded into cheers and applause. McCarthy's days as a political power were effectively over. A few weeks later, the Army hearings dribbled to a close with little fanfare and no charges were upheld against the Army by the committee. In December 1954, the Senate voted to censure McCarthy for his conduct. Three years later, having become a hopeless alcoholic, he died.
http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/G/Glory.html
Glory
What about you, buck?|Whereabouts you from?
I'm trom around Tennessee.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/quotes
IMDb
Glory (1989)
Quotes
John Rawlins: Where about you from?
Trip: I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
Sharts: What ya doin' since then?
Trip: I run for President.
[laughter]
Trip: I didn't win though.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 4:26 PM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Thursday 13 February 2014
