The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 6:10 PM Thursday, December 30, 2010


My return in 1998 was different though. I returned but I am a composite version of Tom Reagan and Kerry Burgess. I am not as tall as Tom Reagan and I am as tall as Kerry Burgess but I do not have the physical scars of Kerry Burgess, such as the gunshot wound scar he had on his shoulder.










The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Stephen King

(from internet transcript)

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Roland sat awake and listened to voices in the night while the wind dried the tears on his cheeks.

Damnation?

Salvation?

The Tower.

He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would sing all their names.

The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and at last Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread:

There I will sing all their names!

- AFTERWORD

This completes the second of six or seven books which make up a long tale called The Dark Tower. The third, The Waste Lands, details half of the quest of Roland, Eddie, and Susannah to reach the Tower; the fourth, Wizard and Glass, tells of an enchantment and a seduction but mostly of those things which befell Roland before his readers first met him upon the trail of the man in black.

My surprise at the acceptance of the first volume of this work, which is not at all like the stories for which I am best known, is exceeded only by my gratitude to those who have read it and liked it. This work seems to be my own Tower, you know; these people haunt me, Roland most of all. Do I really know what that Tower is, and what awaits Roland there (should he reach it, and you must prepare yourself for the very real possibility that he will not be the one to do so)? Yes … and no. All I know is that the tale has called to me again and again over a period of seventeen years. This longer second volume, still leaves many questions unanswered and the story's climax far in the future, but I feel that it is a much more complete volume than the first.

And the Tower is closer.

Stephen King

December 1st, 1986










From 11/2/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks at a Ceremony Honoring the Apollo 7 Astronauts and Former NASA Administrator James E. Webb ) To 12/30/2010 is 15398 days

15398 = 7699 + 7699

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA ) To 12/1/1986 is 7699 days



From 12/24/1951 ( premiere US TV series "Hallmark Hall of Fame"::"Amahl and the Night Visitors" ) To 2/19/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth - the Hubble Space Telescope placed back into its own orbit of the planet Earth ) is 16494 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 12/30/2010 is 16494 days



From 4/15/1937 To 12/30/2010 is 26922 days

26922 = 13461 + 13461

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 9/10/2002 is 13461 days





Posted by H.V.O.M at 6:10 PM Thursday, December 30, 2010


Stargazer





Strange how I decided to watch one of these episodes for the first time in recent memory and how this was the episode I chose to watch today. What this reminds me of is that story about how I survived the crash of the L-1011 "Stargazer" on 27 June 1994 because I was propelled through the windshield as I was the pilot of the aircraft. The reality is the none of us actually survived the crash. The aircraft hit the ground at a tremendous speed after spiraling from forty feet above the ground and was virtually vaporized upon impact. I am the recipient of some kind of highly advanced technology that allows me to reemerge in physical form after my physical body is destroyed and I did reemerge that day but after about two days had elapsed in the real world and I was over a thousand miles from the crash point. There is some kind of force that controls that advanced technology that controlling force makes changes to the reemergence process and that was why I did not immediately reemerge. Until 1998, every time I reemerged after my physical body was destroyed, I always returned as the exact same person I was before, with knowledge in my mind up to the very second that my physical body was destroyed.

My return in 1998 was different though. I returned but I am a composite version of Tom Reagan and Kerry Burgess. I am not as tall as Tom Reagan and I am as tall as Kerry Burgess but I do not have the physical scars of Kerry Burgess, such as the gunshot wound scar he had on his shoulder.










http://hvom.blogspot.com/2010/12/stargazer.html

Posted by Kerry Burgess at 6:10 PM

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2010

Stargazer




Strange how I decided to watch one of these episodes for the first time in recent memory and how this was the episode I chose to watch today. What this reminds me of is that story about how I survived the crash of the L-1011 "Stargazer" on 27 June 1994 because I was propelled through the windshield as I was the pilot of the aircraft. The reality is the none of us actually survived the crash. The aircraft hit the ground at a tremendous speed after spiraling from forty feet above the ground and was virtually vaporized upon impact. I am the recipient of some kind of highly advanced technology that allows me to reemerge in physical form after my physical body is destroyed and I did reemerge that day but after about two days had elapsed in the real world and I was over a thousand miles from the crash point. There is some kind of force that controls that advanced technology that controlling force makes changes to the reemergence process and that was why I did not immediately reemerge. Until 1998, every time I reemerged after my physical body was destroyed, I always returned as the exact same person I was before, with knowledge in my mind up to the very second that my physical body was destroyed.

My return in 1998 was different though. I returned but I am a composite version of Tom Reagan and Kerry Burgess. I am not as tall as Tom Reagan and I am as tall as Kerry Burgess but I do not have the physical scars of Kerry Burgess, such as the gunshot wound scar he had on his shoulder.

The reason I am different, I want to say initially, is that this is some kind of punishment for me, similar to what I know basically as the biblical notion of purgatory, of which I know little about in terms of the details of that concept.

The reality is that I am not human. I was sent here to fulfill a specific role and that is to give people a chance to feel a certain type of gratitude for their very lives. I sense no such gratitude among the people that I chose to try to save, among this population of primitives here behind the lines of enemy insurrection in Washington State and these people are all permanently damned to Hell when the time comes.





http://my.excite.com/tv/prog.jsp?id=EP000013450093&sid=49928&sn=KIRODT2&st=201012301730&cn=117

excite

Dragnet (Repeat)

117 KIRODT2: Thursday, December 30 5:30 PM

Docudrama, Crime

Auto Theft: Dog-Nappers

Thieves take dogs from parked cars.

Original Air Date: Feb 26, 1970










http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/S/Star_Trek_Generations_CD2.html

Star Trek Generations


- Help me build my castle.|- I will in a few minutes.


Posted by Kerry Burgess at 6:10 PM December 30, 2010










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29220

The American Presidency Project

Lyndon B. Johnson

XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969

574 - Remarks at a Ceremony Honoring the Apollo 7 Astronauts and Former NASA Administrator James E. Webb.

November 2, 1968

GOOD MORNING, ladies and gentlemen. We are delighted to have you here on this eventful occasion.

Captain Schirra, Colonel Eisele, Mr. Cunningham, Jim Webb, Dr. Paine:

This morning we are celebrating a beginning--a beginning of what we think is great promise. It is the opening of a new era in the history of manned space flight. We are ready to take that first great step out into the solar system and onto the surface of the nearest of the many mysterious worlds that surround us in space.

Captain Schirra, Colonel Eisele, and Mr. Cunningham, your flight in the new Apollo spacecraft was one of the most successful space missions that has ever been undertaken by this country or by any other country. We just don't see how you could have done any better. I am told that you accomplished as many mission objectives--56 of them--in this one flight as were accomplished in the first five manned flights of the Gemini spacecraft.

You logged the most man-hours ever in a single flight mission--more than 780 hours. This, incidentally, is more man-hours than have been logged in all the Soviet manned flights to date. They still lead us only in woman hours in space.

For nearly 11 days, much longer than is required to go to the moon and back, you operated this complex, new spacecraft without a failure in any major system.

In short, you proved beyond doubt that you were flying the world's most advanced and most versatile manned space vehicle.

I want to pay tribute here, too, to our private enterprise system and the industry that made that possible, as well as the scientists who provided that great leadership.

You proved that the United States today leads in space accomplishments.

This is not important as either a game or a contest. But it is important because the United States of America must be first in technology if it is to continue its position in the world. And I believe today, as I did when we had our original hearings that created the Space Administration, that the United States must be first.

So this morning we have asked you three gentlemen to come here, first to welcome you back, next to present to each of you NASA's Exceptional Service Medal.

Captain Schirra, you have received so many awards already that I am afraid I am going to have to ask you to settle for just a cluster on your medal.

I understand you have been made an honorary member of the American Federation of Musicians for your harmonica rendition of "Jingle Bells."

Dr. Paine will now read the citations.

[Dr. Thomas O. Paine, Acting Administrator of NASA, read the three citations, the texts of which follow.]

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AWARDS TO R. WALTER CUNNINGHAM THE NASA EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE MEDAL

For outstanding contributions to space flight and engineering as Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 7. During the eleven days of the first manned flight test of the Apollo spacecraft, the most complex system ever flown, he participated in maneuvers to demonstrate a CSM rescue type of rendezvous with the separated S--IVB, completed eight successful maneuvering tests of the service module propulsion engine, and evaluated the performance of all spacecraft systems. His high professional skill led to the successful completion of all planned flight tests, significantly advancing the nation's capabilities in space.

Signed and sealed at Washington, D.C. this first day of November Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Eight

T. O. PAINE

Acting Administrator

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AWARDS TO DONN F. EISELE THE NASA EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE MEDAL

For outstanding contributions to space flight and engineering as Command Module Pilot of Apollo 7. During the eleven days of the first manned flight test of the Apollo spacecraft, the most complex system ever flown, he participated in maneuvers to demonstrate a CSM rescue type of rendezvous with the separated S-IVB, completed eight successful maneuvering tests of the service module propulsion engine, and evaluated the performance of all spacecraft systems. His high professional skill led to the successful completion of all planned flight tests, significantly advancing the nation's capabilities in space.

Signed and sealed at Washington, D.C. this first day of November Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Eight

T. O. PAINE

Acting Administrator

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AWARDS TO WALTER M. SCHIRRA, JR. THE NASA EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE MEDAL

For outstanding contributions to space flight and engineering and for his leadership as Commander of Apollo 7. During the eleven days of the first manned flight test of the Apollo spacecraft, the most complex system ever flown, he participated in maneuvers to demonstrate a CSM rescue type of rendezvous with the separated S-IVB, completed eight successful maneuvering tests of the service module propulsion engine, and evaluated the performance of all spacecraft systems. His high professional skill led to the successful completion of all planned flight tests, significantly advancing the nation's capabilities in space.

Signed and sealed at Washington, D.C. this first day of November Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Eight

T. O. PAINE

Acting Administrator

[Following the reading of the three citations, Captain Schirra spoke briefly. The President then resumed speaking.]

We have one other medal to present this morning.

It is NASA's Distinguished Service Medal. And it is to be presented to NASA's most distinguished alumnus--James Webb.

After working with NASA and its astronauts for more than a decade now, I am running out of words to say about the accomplishments and progress that this organization has made.

So I think I am going to be very brief and just say to Jim Webb: You are the best.

I will read the citation for the benefit of those of you who are here, and at least Patsy--Mrs. Webb. Jim doesn't seem to be interested in any praise from any of us, just as long as we will support NASA.

[The President read the citation, the text of which follows.]

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AWARDS TO JAMES E. WEBB THE NASA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL

For outstanding leadership of America's space program from 1961 to 1968 as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Once referred to as "the outstanding Administrator in Government," he provided the clear vision, driving energy and management skill which, in the space of seven years, moved the United States forward to a position of leadership in space and aeronautics. Understanding the broad role of the space program, he successfully forged the capabilities of American academic, industrial, and governmental institutions into a mighty partnership, and in the process greatly strengthened each. He has been unsurpassed in his understanding of and dedication to the strong and proper functioning of our system of government, and to the advancement of science, technology, and public administration as the cornerstones on which the success of our national enterprises must be built. More than any other individual, he deserves credit for the great achievements of the United States in the first decade of space and for helping man reach outward toward the stars.

Signed and sealed at Washington, D.C. this first day of November

Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Eight

THOMAS O. PAINE

Acting Administrator

HOME R E. NEWELL

Associate Administrator

I want to add just this one word. President Kennedy asked me as Chairman of the Space Council and Vice President to undertake a search and try to secure the best man available in this country to bring the academic community, the industrial community, the political community, including the Congress and the executive department, together. As I recall it, I interviewed some 19 men from coast to coast--great industrialists, leading educators, good administrators, and so forth.

I finally concluded that Mr. Webb should be the man to head this venture. He had been Director of the Budget. He had been Under Secretary of State. He had had a career in Government that is unequalled and unexcelled.

I asked him to come to the Capital and tendered him the job. He promptly declined and told me the many reasons why he could not take it. I went ahead and spent several days interviewing the other 18. And I kept coming back to Jim Webb every time.

So finally I got on the phone and asked him to come back; I told him the problems that his country faced, that his Government faced, and that I thought he had as much obligation to put on the uniform and become head of NASA as he did to put on the uniform when he enlisted in the Marines.

So he took this assignment and he put together one of the finest teams that has ever been assembled. He put together a team in the Congress and a team in the executive department.

Both Presidents have supported him all the way through. The Congress has generally supported all of his requests. They have not given him what he should have had in appropriations. We will have to try to remedy that as time goes on. But as I look back, I have never had a prouder moment than the day I said to President Kennedy over the telephone, "I think I found the man you want."

He said, "Who is he?" I said, "Jim Webb." He said, "Can you bring him to the White House now?" And I said, "Yes, sir."

In 10 minutes we were there and President Kennedy called the press in and announced Mr. Webb's appointment.

So this is kind of a going-away for Jim Webb. We are so proud of you, but we are so sorry to see you leave.

Thank you very much.

Note: The President spoke at 10:30 a.m. in the hangar at the LBJ Ranch, Johnson City, Texas. In his opening words he referred to the astronauts, Capt. Walter M. Schirra, Jr., USN, Lt. Col. Donn F. Eisele, USAF, and R. Walter Cunningham, to James E. Webb, former National Aeronautics and Space Administrator, and to Dr. Thomas O. Paine, Acting Administrator of NASA.










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Gore


Robert W. Gore

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert W. "Bob" Gore (born April 15, 1937) is an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman. Gore has led his family's company, W. L. Gore & Associates, in developing applications of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) ranging from computer cables to medical equipment to the outer layer of space suits. His most significant breakthrough is likely the invention of Gore-Tex





https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20120013873.pdf


NASA/TM—2012-217682

Degradation of Spacesuit Fabrics in Low Earth Orbit

August 2012

AIAA–2012–3573

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Glenn Research Center

Cleveland, Ohio 44135

Prepared for the

42nd International Conference on Environmental Systems

sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

San Diego, California, July 15–19, 2012


PGA: pressure garment assembly


page 5

PGA design has progressed since the Apollo era, and the suits worn by astronauts in their return to the Moon will probably not have an outer layer of woven FEP. The current PGAs used in Space Shuttle and International Space Station EVAs use Ortho-fabric (Fabric Development) as the outermost layer. Orthofabric is a two layer plain weave face tied to back of 400 denier Gortex (W.L. Gore & Associates)










http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/03/tomorrowland.html

Posted by Kerry Burgess

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2016



From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 1/9/1996 ( premiere US TV series "3rd Rock from the Sun" ) is 13461 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 9/10/2002 is 13461 days



From 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) To 9/10/2002 is 3778 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 3/7/1976 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"Big Brother" ) is 3778 days



[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-omega-man.html ]


http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2002/02-171.txt


September 10, 2002


Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.


RELEASE: 02-171

NASA ANNOUNCES CONTRACT FOR NEXT-GENERATION SPACE TELESCOPE NAMED AFTER SPACE PIONEER

NASA today selected TRW, Redondo Beach, Calif., to build a next-generation successor to the Hubble Space Telescope in honor of the man who led NASA in the early days of the fledgling aerospace agency.

The space-based observatory will be known as the James Webb Space Telescope, named after James E. Webb, NASA's second administrator. While Webb is best known for leading Apollo and a series of lunar exploration programs that landed the first humans on the Moon, he also initiated a vigorous space science program, responsible for more than 75 launches during his tenure, including America's first interplanetary explorers.

"It is fitting that Hubble's successor be named in honor of James Webb.










http://www.tv.com/shows/hallmark-hall-of-fame/amahl-and-the-night-visitors-323097/

tv.com


Hallmark Hall Of Fame Season 1 Episode 1

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Aired Sunday 9:00 PM Dec 24, 1951 on CBS

Episode Summary

The story of Amahl a poor crippled boy and his mother who are visited by the Three Wise Men who stay the night. Amahl's mother steals their jewels during the night in order to take care of her family but is caught.

AIRED: 12/24/51



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amahl_and_the_Night_Visitors


Amahl and the Night Visitors

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television from that venue as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America.


The booklet with the original cast recording contains the following anecdote:

This is an opera for children because it tries to recapture my own childhood. You see, when I was a child I lived in Italy, and in Italy we have no Santa Claus. I suppose that Santa Claus is much too busy with American children to be able to handle Italian children as well. Our gifts were brought to us by the Three Kings, instead.

I actually never met the Three Kings—it didn't matter how hard my little brother and I tried to keep awake at night to catch a glimpse of the Three Royal Visitors, we would always fall asleep just before they arrived.










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo

Apollo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.


Origins

The cult centers of Apollo in Greece, Delphi and Delos, date from the 8th century BCE. The Delos sanctuary was primarily dedicated to Artemis, Apollo's twin sister. At Delphi, Apollo was venerated as the slayer of Pytho. For the Greeks, Apollo was all the Gods in one and through the centuries he acquired different functions which could originate from different gods. In archaic Greece he was the prophet, the oracular god who in older times was connected with "healing". In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil. Walter Burkert discerned three components in the prehistory of Apollo worship, which he termed "a Dorian-northwest Greek component, a Cretan-Minoan component, and a Syro-Hittite component."

From his eastern origin Apollo brought the art of inspection of "symbols and omina", and of the observation of the omens of the days. The inspiration oracular-cult was probably introduced from Anatolia. The ritualism belonged to Apollo from the beginning. The Greeks created the legalism, the supervision of the orders of the gods, and the demand for moderation and harmony. Apollo became the god of shining youth, the protector of music, spiritual-life, moderation and perceptible order. The improvement of the old Anatolian god, and his elevation to an intellectual sphere, may be considered an achievement of the Greek people.



- posted by Kerry Burgess 06:37 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 20 July 2018