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UNITED STATES ARMY
Medal of Honor Recipients
Vietnam War
NORRIS, THOMAS R.
Rank and Organization: Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, SEAL Advisor, Strategic Technical Directorate Assistance Team, Headquarters, U.S. Military Assistance Command
Place and Date: Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam, 10 to 13 April 1972
Date of Issue: 03/06/1976
Citation: Lt. Norris completed an unprecedented ground rescue of 2 downed pilots deep within heavily controlled enemy territory in Quang Tri Province. Lt. Norris, on the night of 10 April, led a 5-man patrol through 2,000 meters of heavily controlled enemy territory, located 1 of the downed pilots at daybreak, and returned to the Forward Operating Base (FOB). On 11 April, after a devastating mortar and rocket attack on the small FOB, Lt. Norris led a 3-man team on 2 unsuccessful rescue attempts for the second pilot. On the afternoon of the 12th, a forward air controller located the pilot and notified Lt. Norris. Dressed in fishermen disguises and using a sampan, Lt. Norris and 1 Vietnamese traveled throughout that night and found the injured pilot at dawn. Covering the pilot with bamboo and vegetation, they began the return journey, successfully evading a North Vietnamese patrol. Approaching the FOB, they came under heavy machinegun fire. Lt. Norris called in an air strike which provided suppression fire and a smoke screen, allowing the rescue party to reach the FOB. By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, undaunted courage, and selfless dedication in the face of extreme danger, Lt. Norris enhanced the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
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Congressional Medal of Honor Society
NORRIS, THOMAS R.
Rank: Lieutenant
Organization: U.S. Navy
Company: Strategic Technical Directorate Assitance Team
Division: U.S. Army Support Command
Born: 14 January 1944, Jacksonville, Fla.
Date of Issue: 03/06/1976
Place / Date: Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam, 10 to 13 April 1972
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 2:24 PM Monday, December 10, 2007
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NORRIS, THOMAS R.
Rank and organization: Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, SEAL Advisor, Strategic Technical Directorate Assistance Team, Headquarters, U.S. Military Assistance Command. Place and date: Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam, 10 to 13 April 1972. Entered service at: Silver Spring, Md. Born: 14 January 1944, Jacksonville, Fla. Citation: Lt. Norris completed an unprecedented ground rescue of 2 downed pilots deep within heavily controlled enemy territory in Quang Tri Province. Lt. Norris, on the night of 10 April, led a 5-man patrol through 2,000 meters of heavily controlled enemy territory, located 1 of the downed pilots at daybreak, and returned to the Forward Operating Base (FOB). On 11 April, after a devastating mortar and rocket attack on the small FOB, Lt. Norris led a 3-man team on 2 unsuccessful rescue attempts for the second pilot. On the afternoon of the 12th, a forward air controller located the pilot and notified Lt. Norris. Dressed in fishermen disguises
and using a sampan, Lt. Norris and 1 Vietnamese traveled throughout that night and found the injured pilot at dawn. Covering the pilot with bamboo and vegetation, they began the return journey, successfully evading a North Vietnamese patrol. Approaching the FOB, they came under heavy machinegun fire. Lt. Norris called in an air strike which provided suppression fire and a smoke screen, allowing the rescue party to reach the FOB. By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, undaunted courage, and selfless dedication in the face of extreme danger, Lt. Norris enhanced the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
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Nickname: Tommy, Ratso
Place of birth: Jacksonville, Florida
Allegiance: United States Navy
Battles/wars: Vietnam War
Awards: Medal of Honor
Other work: FBI agent
Thomas R. Norris, USN (Retired) (born 14 January 1944) is a retired a U.S. Navy SEAL awarded the Medal of Honor for his ground rescue of two downed pilots in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam on April 10-April 13, 1972. At the time of the action, Lieutenant Norris was a SEAL Advisor with the Strategic Technical Directorate Assistance Team.
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 3 Episode 20
It's a Small World After All
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Apr 28, 1996 on ABC
Lois and Clark go to Lois' high school reunion, and there, she finds out about the disappearance of two of her classmates' partners- disappearing, because another of their classmates wants revenge for her unpopularity in high school. She's shrinking them using a formula created at her successful cosmetics company, and now she has Clark in her sights. Now Lois needs to uncover her secret, or Clark will be continue to shrink until he disappears forever.
AIRED: 4/28/96
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Springfield! Springfield!
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Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'
Do we really need to, uh settle Abe Simpson? I mean, I'm familiar with his physical state and perhaps if we wait, nature will assassinate him for us.
Well, I can't risk it. I won't allow that Simpson boy to take the Hellfish bonanza. And I can't get it without his key. Ah, just the man I need. Fernando Vidal, the world's most devious assassin.
- Hola.
- Fernando, it's M. B.
Ah, Marion Barry. Is it time for another shipment already?
- Oi! This is Montgomery Burns!
- Oh, caramba.
I'm sending you a photo over the Faxtrola. I need you to fly to Springfield and assassinate this man posthaste.
Ah, Del Monte. Enjoy them, old man. They will be your last.
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Springfield! Springfield!
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Sid Watkins
Biography
Date of Birth 6 September 1928, Liverpool, England, UK
Date of Death 12 September 2012, London, England, UK
Birth Name Eric Sidney Watkins
He became the Formula One's race doctor in 1978 and was Chief Medical Delegate until 2005. He was President of the Formula One Association's Institute for Motor Sport Safety until 2011.
He earned his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He served in Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He completed his medical studies at University of Oxford in Oxford Oxfordshire, England. He became a professor of neurosurgery at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York in the early 1960s. He returned to England to become a professor at London Hospital in the early 1970s.
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The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 13
From Within
Aired Friday 9:00 PM Apr 28, 1996 on Showtime
Quotes
[Opening Narration]
Control Voice: The Bible says, "Judge not, for ye shall be judged." If we look beyond the weaknesses of those among us we call feeble, we may find surprising power buried within.
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The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 13
From Within
Aired Friday 9:00 PM Apr 28, 1996 on Showtime
Quotes
Sheila: Those parasites must have been hibernating in that cavern for million years waiting for another susceptible species to come along.
Howie: So?
Sheila: So that means they found it...Us!
Howie: You and me?
Sheila: No, Howie, people.
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The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 13
From Within
Aired Friday 9:00 PM Apr 28, 1996 on Showtime
Quotes
[Closing Narration]
Control Voice: Mankind puts the strong, the athletic, the genius, on a pedestal. If we treated the less fortunate among us as equals we would see that they can also become heroes.
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TV Series)
It's a Small World After All (1996)
Quotes
Superman: [after being shrunk] Look at me! I look like Mighty Mouse!
From 1/14/1944 ( Thomas R. Norris ) To 4/28/1996 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 4/13/1972 ( the date of record of the 2nd United States Navy Medal of Honor for my biological brother Thomas Reagan circa 1972 the United States Navy Commander ) To 4/28/1996 is 8781 days
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From 9/6/1928 ( Sid Watkins ) To 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) is 11135 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/28/1996 is 11135 days
From 5/3/1981 ( premiere US film "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" ) To 4/28/1996 is 5474 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/1/1973 ( the graduation of my biological brother Thomas Reagan from the University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree for my brother Thomas Reagan ) is 2737 days
From 3/24/1989 ( George Bush - Remarks on Greeting the Crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery ) To 4/28/1996 is 2592 days
2592 = 1296 + 1296
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/21/1969 ( the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD ) is 1296 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/24/1969 ( premiere US film "Switcheroo!" ) is 1452 days
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 4/28/1996 is 1928 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/12/1971 ( premiere US film "Raid on Rommel" ) is 1928 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 4/28/1996 is 1928 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/12/1971 ( premiere US film "Raid on Rommel" ) is 1928 days
From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as 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 United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/28/1996 is 1195 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/9/1969 ( the Boeing 747 aircraft first flight ) is 1195 days
From 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) To 4/28/1996 is 1813 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/20/1970 ( Richard Nixon - Remarks in Asheville, North Carolina ) is 1813 days
From 1/19/1933 ( the United States Mint 1933 Double Eagle ) To 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) is 11135 days
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From 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and my United States of America military service continues as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) To 4/28/1996 is 2176 days
2176 = 1088 + 1088
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/25/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Spectre of the Gun" ) is 1088 days
From 6/25/1964 ( premiere US film "Circus World" ) 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 11135 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/28/1996 is 11135 days
From 7/29/1928 ( Calvin Coolidge - Address Dedicating a Memorial to Col. William Colvill, Cannon Falls, Minn. ) 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 22270 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/28/1996 is 11135 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 4/28/1996 is 1870 days
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The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 22
Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Apr 28, 1996 on FOX
AIRED: 4/28/96
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Yesterday's Target (1996 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 28 April 1996
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Yesterday's Target (1996 TV Movie)
Plot Summary
Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuck in the past.
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January 1933
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in January 1933:
January 19, 1933 (Thursday)
The first 100 of 312,500 1933 Double Eagle $20 gold pieces were delivered by the United States Mint to the US Treasurer. Because the coins were never put into circulation, and nearly all would be melted into gold bricks, they became the most rare and valuable of American coins. A single one sold at a 2002 auction for $7,590,020.
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UNITED STATES MINT
Press Releases
February 7, 2002
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO SELL THE FAMED 1933 DOUBLE EAGLE,THE MOST VALUABLE GOLD COIN IN THE WORLD
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Illegal Tender: Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle
By David Tripp
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"The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate in N.A.: 28-Apr-96
Boom! Boom, it went! Boom! Just like that! They took a photo of my keister for Stars and Stripes. At least they told me it was for Stars and Stripes.
-- Abraham J. Simpson, "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
Back to the closing days of the war, as the Hellfish had just flushed some Germans out of an abandoned castle, Burns holds a painting, and carts it away. Sgt. Simpson threatens to report Burns to Commander Flanders.
Sgt.: Just leave [the paintings], Burnsie.
Burns: Leave them for whom, the Germans, the folks who shoot at us all day? Let's just take them. We'll all be rich, rich as Nazis.
Etch: Think of what a guy could get himself with that kind of scratch!
Skinner: Yeah, I could buy chicken dinners three times a day!
Wiggum: I could buy a brand-new studebaker, one with a fan on the dashboard!
Gumble: I could pay my way into high- [belches] society!
Sgt.: Well, I don't feel right about it, but I could use a nest egg for retirement. I'd hate to wind up in one of them old folks homes...
Burns: Then it's agreed. Of course, we can't sell the paintings now, we'd be caught. How many of you are familiar with the concept of a "tontine"?
[all stare at him, until Ox raises his hand]
Burns: All right, Ox. Why don't you take us through it?
Ox: Duh, essentially, we all enter into a contract whereby the last surviving participant becomes the sole possessor of all them purty pictures.
Burns: Well put, Oxford.
"Now remember, you can't _all_ sign with an X."
Abe: So, we sealed up the paintings knowing only one of us would ever look upon them again. Ox was the first to go; he got a hernia carrying the crate out of the castle. Five more men died in the Veteran's Day float disaster of '79. Now, with Asa gone, it's down to me and Burns.
Bart: Great story Grampa, could've used a vampire though. 'Night.
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Circus World (1964)
Release Info
USA 25 June 1964
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Circus World (1964)
Full Cast & Crew
John Wayne ... Matt Masters
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Switcheroo! (1969)
Release Info
USA 24 October 1969
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J.C. Penney
American businessman
J.C. Penney, in full James Cash Penney (born Sept. 16, 1875, Hamilton, Mo., U.S.—died Feb. 12, 1971, New York, N.Y.), merchant who established one of the largest chains of department stores in the United States.
Penney’s first job was clerking in a general store for a salary of $2.27 per month. For medical reasons he moved to Colorado in 1897 and was soon hired by local dry-goods merchants Guy Johnson and T.M. Callahan. The company opened another store in Kemmerer, Wyo., in 1902, and young Penney became a one-third partner for an investment of $500 and a promissory note for $1,500. Five years later Penney bought out his partners’ shares and launched the beginning of what became the J.C. Penney Co.
As each new store opened, Penney offered a profit-sharing plan to its manager. Even in 1927, when the company ceased operating as a partnership and sold its stock publicly, managers were given stock in the company, and eventually all employees were included in profit-sharing plans.
Offering a wide variety of relatively inexpensive general merchandise, J.C. Penney stores appeared in every state in the United States. Before his death in 1971 at the age of 95, Penney saw his company grow from a frontier-town dry-goods store to the second largest nonfood merchandiser in the country, behind Sears, Roebuck and Co.
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Raid on Rommel (1971)
Release Info
USA 12 February 1971
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Calvin Coolidge
XXX President of the United States: 1923 - 1929
Address Dedicating a Memorial to Col. William Colvill, Cannon Falls, Minn.
July 29, 1928
Fellow Citizens:
Heroic deeds have about them an element of immortality. We stand in reverence before those who perform them and cherish their memory down through the ages because we recognize in them the manifestation of a spiritual life, the evidence of things not seen, a presence which was without beginning and is without end, a power that lifts men above the things of this earth into the realm of the divine. Except as we cherish a belief in these realities, we should have no requirement for heroic deeds and no reverence for those who do them. Because of their very nature, because a knowledge of them inspires us to higher things, it is altogether fitting that we should assemble on this Lord's Day to reconsecrate ourselves by dedicating a memorial to one of the heroes of the Battles of Gettysburg. Because we believe in the reality of right and truth and justice, and recognize the necessity of supporting them with every necessary sacrifice, including life itself, we could not be engaged in any more devotional action than in reverencing the memory of those who have nobly responded to that high conception of eternal duty.
Heroism is not only in the man but in the occasion. While there is a certain glamor which attaches itself to the peril which the highwayman and the bandit incur in their criminal activities, it is not genuinely heroic. It will not survive analysis. It leads nowhere. Having no moral quality, it provides no inspiration. It is only a counterfeit of the reality. If it is remembered at all, it is not as a blessing but as a curse.
The memorial which we dedicate to-day is not only to the physical courage of men of high character displayed in an hour of great peril, but also in behalf of a great cause. There was in their deed no element of selfishness, no hope of personal gain. It stands as an exhibition of pure patriotism, of supreme sacrifice for the integrity of the Union, and the inviolate sovereignty of the Federal Constitution. It is these qualities which bring the great concourse of our citizens to do honor to the action of Colonel Colvill and his regiment more than three score years after the event. That same honor will continue to be paid them not only so long as the Nation which they served shall endure, but so long as self-sacrificing devotion to high ideals commends itself to the heart of men.
The story of Col. William Colvill and the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry is too well known to need extended repetition. When President Lincoln called for volunteers to prevent the dissolution of the Union, this was the first regiment offered. It gave valiant service upon many a resolutely contested field, but its most conspicuous record was made at Gettysburg on the second day of that decisive battle. When the forces under the command of General Sickles advanced into action a little after noon, the First Regiment, of which only eight companies were present, numbering 262 men, took the position they vacated. The overwhelming forces of the Confederates under Longstreet and Hill repulsed and drove back the command of General Sickles and were advancing on the left flank of the Union Army, which was in grave danger of being rolled up in defeat. It was at this juncture that General Hancock ordered this depleted regiment to charge the advancing Confederates.
The gallant First Minnesota, led by Colonel Colvill, at once responded with an impetuosity that broke the first and second line of the enemy and stopped the advance. When the action was over but 47 men of the 262 who began the charge were still in line. The remaining 215 lay dead or wounded on the field. In all the history of warfare this charge has few, if any, equals and no superiors. It was an exhibition of the most exalted heroism against an apparently insuperable antagonist. By holding the Confederate forces in check until other reserves came up, it probably saved the Union Army from defeat. What that defeat would have meant to the North no one can tell. Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and the whole heart of the North would have been open to invasion, and perhaps the Union cause would have been lost. So far as human judgment can determine, Colonel Colvill and those eight companies of the First Minnesota are entitled to rank as the saviors of their country.
We may well stop to consider on this Sabbath Day what Power it was that stationed these men at this strategic point on this occasion, which held so much of the hope of humanity. We can only infer that it was the same Power which guided the path of the Mayflower, which gave our country Franklin and Washington, which brought this northwestern territory into the Union through the miraculous victory of George Rogers Clark at Vincennes and peopled it with a freedom-loving immigration, which raised up Lincoln and Grant, which went to the rescue of liberty in Cuba and on the fields of France. Was it not the same Power which set these men as Its sentinels on that July day to guard the progress of humanity? As we behold it all we can but conclude in the words of Holy Writ that, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
The time has come when our whole country can take a more dispassionate view of the long train of events that led up to Appomattox and the new constitutional guaranties of freedom to every inhabitant under our flag. Our national life was begun without any adequate and final declaration of the principle of freedom or demarcation of the line separating the authority of the States and the authority of the Federal Union. Some of the ablest minds of the country honestly differed in their interpretation of our institutions.
As the intensity of opinions and their application to the practical affairs of life of each side developed, they necessarily gave rise to what was described as an irrepressible conflict. That generation of the South found itself involved in a net of circumstances which very much of its best thought undoubtedly deplored, but from which it was totally unable to extricate itself. We can see now that instead of being charged with all the blame, they were in many ways entitled to sympathy. Our country was all involved in a great national tragedy from which it could extricate itself only by an appalling national sacrifice. That tragedy involved both the North and the South. The conditions which brought about the great conflict were national conditions. It was humanly impossible for either section of itself to furnish an adequate solution. If there was to be an extension of freedom under constitutional guaranties it had to be brought about by national action. Any adequate expiation required the cleansing of the heart of the whole Nation. This could only be accomplished through an immeasurable sacrifice made in the tears of our women and the blood of our men.
When the great tragedy was passed, when the tumult of the conflict had ceased, the North found itself depleted, but the South was entirely prostrated. It was under the necessity of rebuilding its whole social and economic structure. The recovery of the North began more early, because it was not compelled to establish its methods of life and of business on new theories. It was possible to build on the solid foundations that were already laid. In the South it was necessary to go through the long and painful process of erecting an entirely new structure. The old methods of existence and of business had to be discarded and new systems established. This would have been most difficult under any circumstances. Coming at the end of four years of conflict, it was well-nigh impossible. But the task was performed slowly and imperfectly at first, but in recent years with a rapidity that seemed scarcely possible.
The agriculture which had been the dominant activity of the old South was gradually revived. Then came the development of its natural resources of coal, iron, and water power, and the growth of great manufacturing enterprises. Minerals and manufactured products are to-day almost twice the value of its agriculture. Of our overseas commerce, nearly 40 per cent of the tonnage is from southern ports. Since 1900 the value of manufactured products increased from about $1,500,000,000 to about $9,500,000,000. Capital invested in cotton manufacturing increased from about $130,000,000 to about $1,000,000,000. Deposits in banks in the same period have risen from $700,000,000 to $7,000,000,000. In public improvements the progress has been very marked. In 1904 less than $13,000,000 were spent on highways. In 1925 this amount had reached $316,000,000. In 1900 only about $35,000,000 were laid out for public schools. In 1924 this amount had risen to over $350,000,000. It is perfectly apparent that in progess and prosperity the South is going forward in a way which it could never have done under the old system. It is no wonder that it is referred to now as the new South.
It has been demonstrated that what never could have been created under a condition of servitude is the almost natural result of a condition of freedom. Human nature has been so designed that men are only at their best when they are permitted to live like men. It is when they are released from the bondage of the body, given control over their own actions, receive the returns from their own labor, and released from bondage of the mind so that ignorance and superstition are replaced by education and moral influences, that most progress is made toward an enlightened civilization.
Meantime, our whole Nation has risen into a new life with unparalleled swiftness. Out of the sacrifices that were made in our war labor was given a new dignity throughout the whole country. Since that time its position has almost constantly improved, until to-day the value of human effort is recognized in this country by a system of wages and a standard of living never before reached in all past history. We have been taught that it is profitable not only that labor should be free but that it should be well paid. Under that practice our national income advanced from about $65,000,000,000 in 1921 to about $90,000,000,000 in 1927. These material results would not have been possible without the spiritual regeneration of our country.
One result of the war which retarded our national progress for many years was the bitterness, hatred, and sectional animosities that it left in its wake. For many years, both for the North and for the South, these were unfortunately stimulated and kept alive for the political advantage that the sponsors of such action hoped to secure. The time has long since passed when to hold or express such hostile sentiments should ever be permitted to work to the advantage of anyone. Those who resort to them should find that their standing in the public confidence is thereby seriously impaired. While isolated outbreaks may continue to occur in unresponsible quarters, I am firmly convinced that the responsible elements both in the North and the South each look with pride and satisfaction upon the brilliant contribution which the other is making to the national welfare and are just as eager to help the other as they are to help themselves. A notable example of this occurred in the last session of the Congress when the flood-relief measure for the lower Mississippi Valley, which will probably equal in cost the Panama Canal and a very large amount of which will be paid for by Northern States, passed by practically a unanimous vote. The day for sectionalism is passed. We are a united Nation.
It is in accordance with these conceptions that we have come to-day to dedicate this memorial and to rededicate ourselves to the support and preservation of those principles which have been revealed to us through the human understanding to be true and demonstrated through long experience to be sound. We have come to increase our admiration for all that is heroic in life, to express our reverence for those who have made sacrifices for the well-being of their fellow men, to renew our fealty to the Constitution of the United States, to rejoice in the universal freedom which it guarantees and in the perfect Union which it has created, and finally for all these blessings in gratitude and humility to acknowledge our dependence upon the Giver of every true and perfect gift.
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The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 22
Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Apr 28, 1996 on FOX
Quotes
Bart: And then, he claimed he was the one who turned cats and dogs against each other. Why is he always making up those crazy stories?
Homer: Maybe it's time we put Grampa in a home.
Lisa: You already put him in a home.
Bart: Maybe it's time we put him in one where he can't get out.
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Night Gallery (TV Series)
Release Info
USA 16 December 1970
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Night Gallery: Season 1, Episode 1
TV Episode
Release Date: 16 December 1970 (USA)
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