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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/09/09 3:01 AM
I pondered as I was walking outside about at least two different engagements where they watched me approach stealthily the enemy and subdue the enemy and of one time where I slipped out quietly and as a gesture to my allied soldiers, I emptied my clip of bullets into an enemy soldier that was surprised to see me sneak up on him. I was thinking also as I was walking outside that situation was the basis for the scene in the 1996 film "Star Trek: First Contact" where "Captain Picard" kills the "Borg" with the Thompson submachine gun and "Lily" comments about how he seemed to have enjoyed it and the basis for that was conversations with my father about how my allied British army soldiers thought I had enjoyed getting up close to those Argentina soldiers and killing them in front of the British soldiers. I talked with him about how this was in 1982 and I had not seen such fierce combat such the Vietnam War and that was over ten years earlier. Ten years. That was 1982 and I had not seen such fierce combat in over ten years and I had seen a lifetime worth a killing during the Vietnam War. I pondered as I walked along outside about how I might have talked with him about how alive I felt being again in such fierce combat.
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From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 8/20/1964 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks Upon Signing the Economic Opportunity Act ) is 1997 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 4/22/1971 is 1997 days
From 6/19/1968 ( the 1st United States Navy Medal of Honor date of record of my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy officer and Thomas Reagan is the only United States of America military fighter jet ace-in-single-day during the Vietnam War ) To 4/22/1971 is 1037 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 9/4/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson - Executive Order 11427 - Terminating the Maritime Advisory Committee ) is 1037 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-national-literacy-act-of-1991.html ]
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131785
abc NEWS
Who Is John Kerry?
Dec. 17
In 1971, when 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer asked John Kerry, an antiwar movement leader, "Do you want to be president?," the now Democratic White House hopeful replied, "Of the United States? No."
Now, after 19 years in the Senate, Kerry is biting his words as he wages a political battle for the presidency in 2004.
Kerry was born in Colorado, but he learned, as he puts it, to walk and talk in Massachusetts. Raised in a well-off family, he said he never thought of himself as rich or took it for granted.
"I thought of myself as privileged," he told ABCNEWS' Peter Jennings. "I had opportunity, but my parents were really clear about the sense of responsibility that one had to the world around you and that you give back. And we were all raised — all of us were raised — in that sense."
Because his father was in the Foreign Service, Kerry was sent to a series of boarding schools. He said it was sometimes lonely.
"At times, and I think particularly with my parents away, I mean that made me feel a little strange," he said. While other students' parents would visit on weekends, he said, "I don't think my parents ever came to one sporting event that I ever was involved in, or any other event, while I was there. They just weren't there."
The challenges of his youth were coupled with great opportunity. "How many kids get to ride a bike through the Brandenburg Gate and go into East Berlin and see the difference between Communism and the West at age 12?" Kerry observed.
An Unforgettable Encounter
As a young man, Kerry was serious. And excited, he says, by President John F. Kennedy.
Kerry told Jennings how he first met JFK while visiting in Rhode Island. "I happened to wind up at the house where he was staying," said Kerry. "[He] wanted to go sailing and we went out. I had an incredible moment of meeting the president and of having this just down-to-earth conversation with the guy."
When Kerry told Kennedy he was about to start college at Yale, Kennedy grimaced because he had gone to Ivy League rival Harvard. "He smiled at me, laughed and said, 'Oh, don't worry about it. You know I'm a Yale man too now,' " said Kerry. "[The president] uttered that famous comment about how he had the best of two worlds now: a Harvard education and Yale degree," referring to the fact he had received an honorary degree from Yale in 1962.
"It was an interesting moment, and one that I obviously would never forget," said Kerry.
Vietnam: ‘I Was Very Lucky’
After graduating from Yale, Kerry enlisted in the Navy and was sent to Vietnam in 1967. He served two tours of duty and won a Bronze Star, a Silver Star and three Purple Hearts. "I was very lucky," he said. "I was one of the walking wounded each time. And very blessed."
Kerry came home bitterly opposed to the war. Testifying before Congress on April 22, 1971, he inquired, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
"I think it's a question that lingers on to this day," Kerry said. "It's the test before you send people to war. It's a sad question to ask. But I thought it was the question."
Change of Heart
After unsuccessful bids for Congress in 1970 and 1972, he become a state prosecutor and later served briefly as Massachusetts' lieutenant governor. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. After serving 19 years in the Senate, he has now changed his mind about running for president.
"I did not, you know, decide to run for president four years after I'd been in the Senate or eight years after I'd been in the Senate, or 12 years after I'd been in the Senate," said Kerry. "[I've] been there 19 years. So I don't think what I'm doing is somehow bizarre."
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=26452
The American Presidency Project
Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963 - 1969
528 - Remarks Upon Signing the Economic Opportunity Act.
August 20, 1964
My fellow Americans:
On this occasion the American people and our American system are making history.
For so long as man has lived on this earth poverty has been his curse.
On every continent in every age men have sought escape from poverty's oppression.
Today for the first time in all the history of the human race, a great nation is able to make and is willing to make a commitment to eradicate poverty among its people.
Whatever our situation in life, whatever our partisan affiliation, we can be grateful and proud that we are able to pledge ourselves this morning to this historic course. We can be especially proud of the nature of the commitments that we are making.
This is not in any sense a cynical proposal to exploit the poor with a promise of a handout or a dole.
We know--we learned long ago--that answer is no answer.
The measure before me this morning for signature offers the answer that its title implies--the answer of opportunity. For the purpose of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 is to offer opportunity, not an opiate.
For the million young men and women who are out of school and who are out of work, this program will permit us to take them off the streets, put them into work training programs, to prepare them for productive lives, not wasted lives.
In this same sound, sensible, and responsible way we will reach into all the pockets of poverty and help our people find their footing for a long climb toward a better way of life.
We will work with them through our communities all over the country to develop comprehensive community action programs--with remedial education, with job training, with retraining, with health and employment counseling, with neighborhood improvement. We will strike at poverty's roots.
This is by no means a program confined just to our cities. Rural America is afflicted deeply by rural poverty, and this program will help poor farmers get back on their feet and help poor farmers stay on their farms.
It will help those small businessmen who live on the borderline of poverty. It will help the unemployed heads of families maintain their skills and learn new skills.
In helping others, all of us will really be helping ourselves. For this bill will permit us to give our young people an opportunity to work here at home in constructive ways as volunteers, going to war against poverty instead of going to war against foreign enemies.
All of this will be done through a program which is prudent and practical, which is consistent with our national ideals.
Every dollar authorized in this bill was contained in the budget request that I sent to the Congress last January. Every dollar spent will result in savings to the country and especially to the local taxpayers in the cost of crime, welfare, of health, and of police protection.
We are not content to accept the endless growth of relief rolls or welfare rolls. We want to offer the forgotten fifth of our people opportunity and not doles.
That is what this measure does for our times.
Our American answer to poverty is not to make the poor more secure in their poverty but to reach down and to help them lift themselves out of the ruts of poverty and move with the large majority along the high road of hope and prosperity.
The days of the dole in our country are numbered. I firmly believe that as of this moment a new day of opportunity is dawning and a new era of progress is opening for us all.
And to you men and women in the Congress who fought so long, so hard to help bring about this legislation, to you private citizens in labor and in business who lent us a helping hand, to Sargent Shriver and that band of loyal men and women who made up this task force that brings our dream into a reality today, we say "Thank you" for all the American people. In the days and years to come, those who have an opportunity to participate in this program will vindicate your thinking and vindicate your action.
Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke in midmorning in the Rose Garden at the White House. Among those attending the ceremony were Members of Congress who sponsored the bill and other supporters of the antipoverty program. The President specifically referred to Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps, who was later appointed Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity.
As enacted, the bill (S. 2642) is Public Law 88452 (78 Stat. 508).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/quotes
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Quotes
Willard: [voice-over] I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.
From 2/6/2004 ( my final day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the deputy director of the United States Marshals Service and the active duty United States Marine Corps brigadier general circa 2004 ) To 3/11/2008 is 1495 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 12/6/1969 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop"::"Big Bagdad Danger" ) is 1495 days
From 9/9/1948 ( premiere US film "The Gentleman from Nowhere" ) 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 ) is 15470 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 3/11/2008 is 15470 days
From 8/17/1929 ( Francis Gary Powers ) 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 15470 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 3/11/2008 is 15470 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-private-eyes.html ]
http://www.tv.com/shows/jericho/termination-for-cause-1182439/
tv.com
Jericho Season 2 Episode 5
Termination for Cause
Aired Tuesday 10:00 PM Mar 11, 2008 on CBS
AIRED: 3/11/08
http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/A/Apocalypse_Now_-_Redux.html
Apocalypse Now - Redux
Saigon.
Shit.
I'm still only in Saigon.
Every time, I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle.
When I was home after my first tour, it was worse.
I'd wake up, and there'd be nothing.
I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce.
When I was here, I wanted to be there.
When I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle.
I'm here a week now.
Waiting for a mission...
getting softer.
Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker.
And every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger.
Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/quotes
IMDb
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Quotes
Willard: Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.
http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/A/Apocalypse_Now_-_Redux.html
Apocalypse Now - Redux
- What do you want? - Are you all right, Captain?
What does it look like?
- Are you Willard, 505th Battalion? - Affirmative.
- 173rd Airborne? - Yeah.
- Assigned to SOG? - Hey, buddy, gonna shut the door?
We have orders to escort you to the airfield.
- What are the charges? - Sir?
- What'd I do? - There's no charges, Captain.
You have orders to report to Com-Sec Intelligence at Nha Trang.
- I see. - All right?
- Nha Trang, for me? - That's right.
Come on, Captain. You still have a few hours to get cleaned up.
- I'm not feeling too good. - Captain?
Dave, come here and give me a hand. We got a dead one.
Come on, Captain. Let's take a shower.
- Don't be an ass. - Get a hold of him good.
We're gonna take a shower, Captain. In we go.
Stand underneath this, Captain.
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