There Is No Spoon (Rest Squat Eye Flat Face)

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Simpson Tide

Original airdate on FOX: 29-Mar-1998


% But first, a commercial for the Navy comes on.



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Simpson Tide (1998)

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[Homer is watching a television ad for the Naval Reserve]

Naval Recruiter: Daybreak, Jakarta. The proud men and women of the Navy are protecting America's interests overseas, but you're in Lubbock, Texas hosing down a statue, because your in the Naval Reserve. Once you complete basic training, you only work one weekend a month, and most of that time your drunk off your ass.










http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-07-17/news/1994198014_1_admiral-boorda-naval-operations-chief-of-naval

THE BALTIMORE SUN


New Chief Tries to Get Navy on the Correct Course

July 17, 1994 By GILBERT A. LEWTHWAITE

WASHINGTON — Washington. -- In the drawer of the desk in his Pentagon office, Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, the new chief of naval operations, has a bottle of stomach-calming Maalox.

"I have taken it out a couple of times, but I have not had the need to drink it just yet," the Navy's top admiral says. "I'm still having fun."

Eight weeks into his job of revitalizing a service shamed by sex and cheating scandals, battered by downsizing and challenged by global crises, Admiral Boorda, 55, appears to be thriving under pressure.

The Maalox was left by his predecessor, Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, who took early retirement in April in the wake of the Tailhook scandal, an episode of sexual harassment that brought shame and embarrassment to a service that Admiral Boorda aims to imbue with a renewed sense of honor and mission.

That's not all that's required of him. He must also define the Navy he thinks the country needs for the 21st century, persuade Congress to fund it and make sure it can serve the nation's interests -- all with less money, fewer ships and smaller ranks.

That is no small order for a high school dropout from South Bend, Ind., a grandson of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine who ran away from home, enlisted at 17 and rose to the top without attending the Naval Academy, the usual breeding ground for the service's elite, or joining a college ROTC unit, the main alternate route to a commission.

Mr. Boorda was selected in 1962 -- under the "Seaman to Admiral Program" -- for Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island and the Naval War College.

"Going from seaman to CNO is an extraordinary feat and should serve as an inspiration for the young sailors in the fleet today," Navy Secretary John Dalton said of Admiral Boorda's appointment.

Admiral Boorda has had several tours at the Pentagon. Just before his appointment as the top Navy admiral, he was the top U.S. admiral in Europe, commanding NATO air patrols over the former Yugoslavia.

Being the first chief of naval operations to rise from the enlisted ranks in modern times has given Admiral Boorda the reputation of being a "people's" person.

"I would rather talk about people than anything else," he said in a recent interview in his office.

He will, however, have to talk about more than people in Washington, where Congress is grappling with how big defense budgets should be, what the military should be able to do and how it should be structured.

"His greatest vulnerability is he doesn't understand yet what a shark pit he is in in Washington," said a member of his staff who requested anonymity.

There is also some concern that by concentrating on "people issues," Admiral Boorda may not focus sufficiently on the machines of war. There is a strong constituency for constantly upgrading weapons.

One of the admiral's "hardware" challenges is deciding what type of plane the Navy should be flying in the early 21st century. The Navy is now relying on an upgraded FA-18 fighter. But the FA-18 is not a "stealthy" plane, able to avoid enemy radar and air defenses.

"The Navy's aircraft-modernization plans are in an absolute shambles," said Loren B. Thompson, deputy director of Georgetown University's National Security Studies program.

Admiral Boorda must also decide what kind of force the Navy, lacking a Soviet threat, needs.

Above all, the chief challenge for Admiral Boorda is resurrecting the service's sullied image and reviving morale.

"The Navy is tired of being pummeled," said an officer who works for Admiral Boorda, asking that his name not be used. "We are trying to deal with some of the problems we have had, whether it's cheating at the academy, the Tailhook scandal or sexual harassment."

The admiral said: "There's a lot of talk about having to change the culture. Let me tell you, the culture in the Navy has changed. We pay a lot of attention to things that got us into trouble before."

He has a reputation for personally trying to solve sailors' problems. When a female sailor told him that her husband had left her a week after they arrived in Italy for a three-year "accompanied" assignment, he ordered her tour to be cut to two years -- the normal assignment for a single sailor.

Admiral Boorda asserted in his interview with The Sun that the Navy seemed "to be having trouble getting away from things that happened in the past that we have learned from."

The admiral also attracted attention during his Senate confirmation when he suggested that media coverage of Tailhook and other scandals had "created a public outcry" against the Navy. The public, he said, realized that the scandal was caused by individuals, not the institution.

RTC But Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, a think tank on military personnel issues, accused Admiral Boorda himself of institutionalizing double standards in the Navy by giving preferential treatment to women.










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The Seattle Times


Wednesday, June 15, 1994

Son Of Bush Navy Secretary Got Soft Penalty, Court Finds

By Barton Gellman

Washington Post

WASHINGTON - A criminal case against the son of the Bush administration's Navy secretary was "infected throughout by senior naval officers" who acted improperly to protect him and "dispose of an awkward situation," according to a senior military appellate court.

The opinion by the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review, issued Monday and made public yesterday, described a systematic attempt by the Navy chain of command to shield Yeoman Sailor H. Lawrence Garrett IV after he admitted to marijuana use, lying under oath and credit-card fraud.

The three-judge panel said Garrett received "extremely lenient" treatment on charges for which "any other sailor in the U.S. Navy" would have been court-martialed. Garrett was restricted to base for 30 days and fined $880. One of his collaborators in the credit-card scheme received a two-year prison sentence, a bad-conduct discharge and $14,000 in revoked pay.

The court's rebuke comes as another black mark on a naval justice system that repeatedly has been found wanting in cases involving suspects with rank or influence. Two of those singled out in the opinion, former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III and retired Rear Adm. Duvall Williams, former chief of the Naval Investigative Service (NIS), already had been forced out in part for failing to hold senior officers accountable in the Tailhook sexual abuse scandal.

Some of those criticized by the court in the Garrett case remain in important posts. Among them is Adm. Jeremy Boorda, then chief of naval personnel and now the Navy's top-ranking admiral, who granted the younger Garrett an unusual transfer to Washington at his father's behest.

Two officers who played far more central roles in shielding the sailor, according to the court, have since risen to the top of the Navy justice system. Rear Adm. Carlson LeGrand - who chose to try Garrett in a "captain's mast," an administrative hearing reserved for minor infractions - is now chief of the Naval Legal Service Command. Capt. Peter Fagan, who was legal adviser to the Navy secretary, is about to become southwest regional chief of that command.

The court found that Fagan helped arrange for an extraordinary telephone call to the younger Garrett from his mother, the secretary's wife, which interrupted a polygraph interrogation and effectively ended it. At the senior Garrett's request, the court found, Fagan also gave legal advice to the younger man and warned him about "NIS interrogation techniques."

The senior Garrett denied in an interview that he asked Boorda to transfer his son from San Diego, where the investigation was centered. He said he did not recall asking Fagan to advise his son and did not know his wife planned to interrupt the interrogation, but added he saw "nothing sinister" about either event. "I scrupulously avoided any involvement," he said.

Rear Adm. Kendell Pease, the Navy spokesman, declined last night to make "any speculative remarks" about the effect of the case on Fagan and LeGrand. Fagan said he did nothing for Garrett that he would not have done for any other sailor. LeGrand was traveling in Japan and could not be located to comment. Williams, who declined to discuss the substance of the case, said the court made its findings without "any semblance of due process."

Because Garrett was punished administratively, the court had no authority over his case. Its opinion came in the appeal of Yeoman Seaman Apprentice Chad Kelly, an acquaintance of Garrett who was convicted of credit-card theft following the same investigation and stood trial at a general court martial, a type of trial reserved for the most serious cases.

The appellate court found that the "disparate treatment" resulted "solely from (Garrett's) status as the son of the secretary of the Navy."










From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) To 4/23/1994 is 1192 days

1192 = 596 + 596

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 6/21/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks Upon Presenting the Young American Medals for Bravery and Service ) is 596 days



From 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 ) To 4/23/1994 is 1192 days

1192 = 596 + 596

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 6/21/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks Upon Presenting the Young American Medals for Bravery and Service ) is 596 days



From 5/25/1990 ( premiere US film "Fire Birds" ) To 4/23/1994 is 1429 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 10/1/1969 ( premiere US film "Some Kind of a Nut" ) is 1429 days



[ See also: To Be Continued? ]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


Chief of Naval Operations

Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda, USN

Chief of Naval Operations

April 23, 1994 - May 16, 1996


SPEECHES


Remarks at the Change of Command at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. - Apr. 23, 1994










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The American Presidency Project

Lyndon B. Johnson

XXXVI President of the United States: 1963 - 1969

275 - Remarks Upon Presenting the Young American Medals for Bravery and Service.

June 21, 1967

Attorney General Clark, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, distinguished Members of Congress, distinguished award winners, ladies and gentlemen:

This is one of the pure pleasures of the office that I hold--recognizing the courage, the commitment, the idealism of young Americans.

These are the fundamental values of a democratic society. Each of them gives great meaning to the others:

--Idealism without commitment is like a bright light burning in a vacuum.

--Commitment without idealism can easily become frenzied and destructive.

--Without courage, those values may fail at the moment of testing--for nations, as well as for men.

Today we come here to the Cabinet Room to honor three young Americans who have demonstrated their idealism, their commitment, and their great courage.

Their achievements are unique. But in a deeper sense these three, whom we honor, represent the great numbers of American youth who share their values:

--those who are fighting at this very hour to make it possible to have a decent future for the Vietnamese people, as well as freedom and liberty everywhere in the world;

--those Peace Corpsmen--and women-who are sharing their knowledge and their experience with people whom history has never before given any chance;

--those VISTA volunteers, and those members of the Teacher Corps, who are enriching the lives of their fellow Americans.

It is easy--particularly when you have witnessed and survived the perils of teenage culture in your own family--to question the customs of the young.

But the hard fact is this: The basis of improvement, in our civilization, has been that each generation set out to improve on its parents. Sometimes there has been more posturing than progress. But, in perspective, I hope that all of you will be able to improve on us, as much as we think we improved upon those Victorians who peer sternly out of family albums at us.

And I trust that you will retain the hard core of democratic idealism that has been each generation's most treasured legacy to its children.

Today it is my proud privilege to award Young American Medals to Gloria Cassidy, to Nathaniel Curry, and to Drusilla Akamine.

Gloria--you and Nathaniel demonstrated outstanding bravery in rescuing children from burning homes.

"Courage," as Mark Twain once said, "is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."

Your physical courage has set a magnificent example to your generation--as well as to your elders.

Drusilla--your work with retarded children has brought a precious sense of belonging to youngsters who often are sentenced to life imprisonment, in a cell of callous neglect.

What you have done requires great perseverance--immense inner strength-and a maturity of spirit. Yours is the moral courage that leads men and women to endure disappointment and heartbreak, for the sake of others.

All of you are here this morning because, long before you performed the acts that we come here to honor today, there was instilled in you an idealism, a sense of commitment, and a capacity for courage. Either by accident or design, those values were called upon--at an hour of need for someone else. And when called upon, each of you responded.

I pray that this great Nation of yours, like you, will always respond when called upon--as you have responded when you were called upon.

Thank you very much.

Note: The President spoke at 12:32 p.m. in the Cabinet Room at the White House. In his opening words he referred to Attorney General Ramsey Clark and J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The President presented the gold Young American Medals to the following: Gloria Cassidy, 15, of New York City, who at the age of 13 rescued her two younger brothers from the family's burning apartment; Nathaniel Tyrone Curry, 18, of Opa Locka, Fla., who at the age of 16 rescued a 2-year-old child from a neighboring house which had caught fire; and Drusilla Chiyono Akamine, 20, of Honolulu, Hawaii. For 5 years Drusilla had done varied volunteer work with the Hawaii Association to Help Retarded Children, organizing weekly "teen canteens" for the retarded, planning a "teen march" which collected $5,000 for the Association, and forming a teen group to inform the public on problems of mental retardation. The group also successfully petitioned the legislature to approve additional classes for the retarded.

Winners were selected by the Young American Medals Committee, composed of Mr. Hoover, Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold, and Clifton F. Sessions, Director of Public Information, Department of Justice.










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Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda, USN

Chief of Naval Operations

Change of Command Remarks

Annapolis, Maryland, 23 April 1994

Good morning, Secretary Deutch, Secretary Dalton, General Shalikashvili, Admiral Kelso, General Mundy -- I could go on -- this is about two pages of names, I think I'll just stop and say that if you're not a friend of Frank Kelso's, Mike Boorda's or the United States Navy, you're in the wrong ceremony.

It is our custom in the Navy, when an officer takes command, that he will make a few very brief remarks -- certainly not talk about changes -- and sit down quickly. And I'm going to do that, but there are a few things I should say. And Frank there will be one big change now that you're leaving and I'm coming in. The podiums are going to be a lot smaller for the next four years. For the people in the front row, there is an admiral back here somewhere.

First, instead of saving it for the end, I want to say right up front how much I appreciate and love wy wife Bettie for her hard work on behalf of the Navy, on behalf of our family, and on behalf of her husband all these many years. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you and I wouldn't want to be here without you. At a moment like this, I have to tell you the truth. When we went to Europe I told Bettie, "its going to be kind of a quiet tour and I'll probably retire when this is over and you'll see a lot of me for the next few years," and then there was Yugoslavia.










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"V" Device

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The "V" Device is a miniature bronze 1/4 inch letter "V" with serifs that is authorized to be worn on certain medals and ribbons awarded to members of the United States Army and Air Force. The Navy and Marine Corps gold colored version of the "V" and the Coast Guard's bronze version is referred to as the Combat Distinguishing Device or Combat "V".

The criteria for wear of the "V" device differ between the services.


Criteria and wear

The "V" device must be specifically authorized in the award citation for wear on the award. Although a service member may be cited for heroism in combat many times and be awarded several awards authorizing the device, only one "V" may be worn on the same award. The criteria vary between the services:

Army – the "V" is worn solely to denote "participation in acts of heroism involving conflict with an armed enemy".

Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard – the "V" is worn to denote combat heroism or to recognize individuals who are "exposed to personal hazard during direct participation in combat operations".

Air Force – the "V" is worn on the Bronze Star Medal to denote heroism in combat, on the Commendation Medal and Achievement Medal to denote heroism or being "placed in harms' way" during contingency deployment operations, and on the Outstanding Unit Award and Organizational Excellence Award to indicate the unit participated in direct combat support actions.

For the Medal of Honor, the Department of Defense, Manual of Military Decorations and Awards, 2010 currently specifies, "for each succeeding act that would otherwise justify award of the Medal of Honor, the individual receiving the subsequent award is authorized to wear an additional Medal of Honor ribbon and/or a "V" device on the Medal of Honor suspension ribbon."


Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard

The Combat "V" may be worn alone or in conjunction with gold or silver 5/16 Inch Stars on Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard service ribbons. The "V" is always worn in the center. Any stars are added to the right and left of the "V" in balance, starting with the right side from the wearer's perspective.


History

In December 1945, the Army authorized the "V" Device as an attachment to be worn on the Bronze Star Medal, to distinguish 'valor' recipients from 'meritorious achievement' recipients. The Secretary of the Navy authorized the Combat "V" for the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal on February 13, 1946. The device is currently authorized for certain decorations and awards to denote valor in combat, combat participation, or combat support participation.










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Some Kind of a Nut (1969)

Release Info

USA 1 October 1969 (New York City, New York)










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IMDb


Some Kind of a Nut (1969)

Quotes


Pamela Anders: Behind every great man is a woman. Behind that woman is his wife.










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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary


For Immediate Release May 21, 1996

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT


His first words upon becoming Chief of Naval Operations were, "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Bettie, and I wouldn't want to be here without her."

To Bettie and David and Edward and Robert and Anna, your families, I know there is nothing we can say or do










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/10/07 11:31 AM

I had a very clear dream of me back in uniform and given a new assignment on a base. I can remember seeing that I was wearing the USN Captain insignia on my khakis. I walked into a room where a change of command was going on. I'm not sure if I was told this in the dream or if I am assuming that is what's happening. I know or assume that the two officer's in the change of command were subordinate officers to me and that they were Commander's. Their command was a subordinate command to mine. I remember from the dream shaking hands with one of them and introducing myself as Captain. I can't remember the name I gave her but I think I said Captain Thomas Ray. There is also some kind of element to that part of the dream; something about it seeming silly to introduce myself by stating my rank because that was obvious or I was stating the obvious. And another unusual part was that they wouldn't tell me which one of them was taking command during that ceremony and which one was relinquishing command. I felt comfortable being back in that role, but yet, I felt as though I was still missing a few too many pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that is my mind, for my comfort. I probably serve better now for a while as an independent operative rather than an officer in charge of a large command where subordinates have certain expectations of their Captain.


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From 10/14/1943 ( the 2nd Schweinfurt Raid ) To 3/14/1994 is 18414 days

18414 = 9207 + 9207

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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days



From 10/14/1943 ( the 2nd Schweinfurt Raid ) To 3/14/1994 is 18414 days

18414 = 9207 + 9207

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 1/17/1991 ( 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 9207 days



From 2/17/1909 ( Geronimo deceased ) To 11/8/1965 ( premiere US TV series "Days of Our Lives" ) is 20718 days

20718 = 10359 + 10359

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 3/14/1994 is 10359 days



From 9/27/1984 ( "UA from class from 0600-0800" ) To 3/14/1994 is 3455 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 4/19/1975 ( Gerald Ford - Remarks at the Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts ) is 3455 days



From 11/29/1981 ( premiere US TV movie "Of Mice and Men" ) To 3/14/1994 is 4488 days

4488 = 2244 + 2244

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 12/25/1971 ( 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 ) is 2244 days



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The Seattle Times


Thursday, March 3, 1994

King-TV Gets Radar

By Chuck Taylor

KING-TV (Channel 5) will begin using its own Doppler weather radar system during newscasts on March 14.



http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=49807

The American Presidency Project

William J. Clinton

XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001

Statement on Nominations for the Department of the Navy

March 14, 1994

I am pleased to announce that I have nominated Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda to succeed Admiral Frank A. Kelso II as Chief of Naval Operations.

Admiral Boorda is currently serving as Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe/ Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe where he is responsible for coordinating and planning NATO military actions over Bosnia-Herzegovina and in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas.

Admiral Boorda brings to the job of Chief of Naval Operations a keen appreciation of operational requirements in the post-cold-war world and an outstanding ability to work with our allies in complex and challenging circumstances. He has distinguished himself as one of the foremost military leaders serving in the armed services today, and his counsel and guidance on the many national security issues facing our Nation will be of great value.

Admiral Boorda assumes the post of Chief of Naval Operations at an important time in the history of the United States Navy. I will depend on him to continue the progress that Admiral Kelso has made in restructuring the Navy to meet the new domestic and international security environments.

I have also nominated Vice Admiral Leighton W. Smith, Jr., U.S. Navy, to relieve Admiral Boorda and be promoted to the rank of admiral. As the former Director for Operations, U.S. European Command, and the current Deputy thorough understanding of NATO structure and Chief of Naval Operations, Plans, Policy and the requirements of the European theater of Operations, Vice Admiral Smith possesses a operations.










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4847

The American Presidency Project

Gerald Ford

XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974-1977

198 - Remarks at the Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts.

April 19, 1975

Thank you very, very much, Mr. Suter. Governor Dukakis, Mr. Ambassador, Senator Brooke, Senator Kennedy, Members of the House of Representatives, distinguished guests, and fellow, Americans:

Two hundred years ago today, American Minutemen raised their muskets at the Old North Bridge and answered a British volley. Ralph Waldo Emerson called it "the shot heard round the world." The British were in full retreat soon afterwards and. returned to Boston. But there was no turning back for the colonists--the American Revolution had begun.

Today, two centuries later, the President of 50 united States and 213 million people stands before a new generation of Americans who have come to this hallowed ground.

In these two centuries, the United States has become a world power. From a newborn nation with a few ships, American seapower now ranges to the most distant shores. From a militia of raw recruits, the American military stands on the frontlines of the free world. Our fliers and our planes eclipse one another in power and in speed with each succeeding new breed of airmen and aircraft.

From a nation virtually alone, America is now allied with many free worlds [nations] in common defense. The concepts of isolationism and "Fortress America" no longer represent either the reasoning or the role of the United States foreign policy.

World leadership was thrust upon America, and we have assumed it. In accepting that role, the United States has assumed responsibility from which it cannot and will not retreat. Free nations need the United States, and we need free nations. Neither can go it alone.

There are some in the world who still believe that force and the threat of force are the major instruments of national and international policy. They believe that military supremacy over others is [the] logical and legitimate [end] of their revolutionary doctrines. Such aims have left a trail of tyranny, broken promises, and falsehood.

Tyranny by any other name is still tyranny. Broken promises in any other language are still promises unkept. And falsehood by any other description is still a lie.

This is not the rhetoric of the past. It is reason about the present because history keeps repeating itself. Force as an instrument of national and international policy continues to be a major instrument of change in the world. Reasonable societies and reasonable people must do all in their power to reconcile all threats to peace. Now is a time for reconciliation, not recrimination. It is a time of reconstruction, not rancor.

The world is witnessing revolutionary technological, economic, and social change--a massive and rapid breaking of barriers.

We, all men and women of all lands, must master this change. We must make this revolution an evolution--to make and accept change with greater order and greater restraint.

How can we achieve, how can we accomplish this evolution? It is not enough to call upon material resources. No material resources are sufficient to themselves to inspire the continued confidence of men in reasonable change. We must summon higher, greater values as we proceed. These higher values are found in the principles of this Republic, forged by our forefathers in the Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson wrote of change in the light of American principles, and he said, "Nothing, then, is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man." Jefferson accepted change in the ordinary course of human events, but he rejected any fundamental change in the principles of our Republic, the inalienable rights of man.

Often, change is healthy for a people and a nation. That is why America has always been a land of new horizons and new hopes. Free choice, the consent of the governed, represents the American philosophy of change.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are sacred rights, not to be given or not to be taken by shifting winds or changing moods. It is important to recall these truths, because the men and women of America must renew that faith, their courage, and their confidence. Our belief, our commitment to human rights, to human liberties, must also represent belief and commitment to ourselves.

It is a time to place the hand of healing on the heart of America--not division and not blame. When all is said and done, the finest tribute that may ever be paid this Nation and this people is that we provided a home for freedom.

Freedom was nourished in American soil because the principles of the Declaration of Independence flourished in our land. These principles, when enunciated 200 years ago, were a dream, not a reality. Today, they are real. Equality has matured in America. Our inalienable rights have become even more sacred. There is no government in our land without consent of the governed.

Many other lands have freely accepted the principles of liberty and freedom in the Declaration of Independence and fashioned their own independent republics. It is these principles, freely taken and freely shared, that have revolutionized the world. The volley fired here at Concord two centuries ago, "the shot heard round the world," still echoes today on this anniversary.

One hundred years from now, a new generation of Americans will come here to rededicate this Nation and renew the spirit of our people in the principles that inspire us on this occasion. Let it be said that those of us who came to Concord today reaffirmed these final words of the Declaration of Independence: "We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
Thank you very, very much.

Note: The President spoke at 9:54 a.m. at Patriots Day ceremonies at the bridge.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:17 AM Pacific Time Seattle USA Friday 22 February 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/02/chain-reaction.html


Back in the year 2003 I wrote a letter on my computer at home and I printed it out on to paper and I put that letter in a stamped envelope for the postal service and I sent that letter through the United States Postal Service. I had the envelope of the letter addressed specifically to the Chief of [ Naval ] Operations United States Navy and I referenced a special projects branch I had found on the internet.

I wrote about a computer program I created for the guided missile computer complex system that would transfer memory from one of the computers to the other when we were in the Persian Gulf in 1988. We had two identical systems in place. They were twins you could say. The transfer of code was problematic and the solution was not obvious.

I mailed the letter to the Chief of Operations United States Navy and told them I should have received the Silver Star.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 February 2013 excerpt ends]










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Stephen King

The Langoliers


Chapter 8

Refuelling. Dawn’s Early Light. The Approach of the Langoliers. Angel of the Morning. The Time-Keepers of Eternity. Take-off.


“We’re waiting, Craig,” the president of his own banking institution said. Craig felt momentary surprise — Mr Parker hadn’t been scheduled to attend this meeting — and then the feeling was overwhelmed by happiness.

“No procedures at all!” he screamed joyfully into their shocked faces. “I just bought and bought and bought! I followed No... PROCEDURES... AT ALL!”

He was about to go on, to elaborate on this theme, to really expound on it, when a sound stopped him. This sound was not miles away; this sound was close, very close, perhaps in the boardroom itself.

A whickering chopping sound, like dry hungry teeth.

Suddenly Craig felt a deep need to tear some paper — any paper would do. He reached for the legal pad in front of his place at the table, but the pad was gone. So was the table. So were the bankers. So was Boston.

“Where am I?” he asked in a small, perplexed voice, and looked around. Suddenly he realized... and suddenly he saw them.

The langoliers had come.

They had come for him.

Craig Toomy began to scream.

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Brian could see them, but could not understand what it was he was seeing. In some strange way they seemed to defy seeing, and he sensed his frantic, overstressed mind trying to change the incoming information, to make the shapes which had begun to appear at the east end of Runway 21 into something it could understand.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:42 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 21 September 2014