http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38654
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Radio Address to the Nation on Armed Forces Day and Defense Spending
May 18, 1985
My fellow Americans:
Not too long ago one of our Ambassadors visited an American armored cavalry regiment stationed on the NATO line in Germany. As he returned to his helicopter, he was followed by a young 19-year-old trooper. The trooper asked him if he could get a message to the President. Well, the Ambassador said that sometimes getting messages to the President was part of his job. And the young trooper then said, "Will you tell him we're proud to be here, and we ain't scared of nothin."
Well, not long ago the Ambassador was in Washington and told me the sequel to that incident. I'd repeated a story in a talk that was carried on our Voice of America radio program, and there in that base in Germany the young trooper heard the broadcast and knew that I'd received his message. His commanding officer said that he ran down the company street yelling: "The system works! The system works!"
Well, the system does work, but not just because Ambassadors can get messages from a 19-year-old trooper to the President. Our system—this way of life we call democracy and freedom—really works because of the dedicated Americans like that GI in Germany, who've always been willing to defend our way of life from foreign aggressors—from those who do not love freedom and seek to destroy it.
Today is Armed Forces Day, a day we set aside to remember and thank those Americans who wear our country's uniform and who serve our nation in so many places around the globe. Many are far from home, and things you and I take for granted-family, friends, all the good things that go with life in our hometowns—they've given all these things up for the sake of a challenge and to answer a call. The challenge is the task of defending freedom, and the call they've answered is summarized in three words: duty, honor, country.
So, on Armed Forces Day, let's remember the debt we owe those in uniform. News of this broadcast will be carried on the Armed Forces Network, and I know I speak for all Americans when I say to our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guardsmen: We thank you for the job you're doing and the sacrifices you're making for all of us at home. And we're grateful and proud of you for your devotion to country and to the cause of freedom.
Now, remembering to say thank you is very important, but we here at home have a greater responsibility. As you know, since my first day in office, restoring respect for America's military and rebuilding our nation's defenses has been one of my highest priorities. It remains so today.
I'm sure you've read about the discussions going on in the Congress on military spending. I'll reserve comment on them until the Congress has completed its current work, but I do want to say this much: One of the things that has most deeply disturbed Americans during the past decade, even though it isn't always talked about as much as other political issues, was the expansion of Soviet influence beyond their borders-Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Nicaragua are cases in point. This trend was of natural concern to the American people, especially right here on the continent.
The tendency of some leaders to shut their eyes to the real world, their lack of realism about our foreign adversaries and communism's unrelenting assault on human freedom requires that we face up to the need to restore effective deterrence and help our friends.
Americans don't want to take chances with our national security. It's just one of the strongest impulses in our body politic. Americans know an act of Congress can repeal vital military expenditures. They also know what an act of Congress can't repeal: the aggressive tendencies and intentions of our adversaries.
So, I want to say today I'll be conferring with the Congress and with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger on the military budget. And believe me, our attack on waste and fraud in procurement—like discovering that $436 hammer—is going to continue, but we must have adequate military appropriations. As President Kennedy said: "There is no discount on defense."
My first responsibility as President is the safety and security of the American people. So, if a suitable compromise can't be worked out, I won't hesitate to put our case before the American people and ask for your support. On this Armed Forces Day let's say thanks to all Americans in uniform, but let's make sure we give them the tools they need to do their job.
Until next week, thanks for listening, and God bless you.
Note: The President spoke at 12:06 p.m. from Camp David, MD.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences Commencement Ceremony
May 16th, 1987
Thank you all very much. And Secretary Weinberger, Chairman Olch, Dean Sanford, members of the graduating class, and ladies and gentlemen, I must tell you before I start how relieved I was when Dean Sanford told me that I was going to walk on after the procession. I thought that I was going to come in with the dean, and with his reputation, I'd been afraid that the good news was that we might perch on the backstage rafters and rappel in— [laughter] —and the bad news, that we'd jump from 10,000 feet. [Laughter] But it's a pleasure to be here to welcome you the graduates of this the West Point and Annapolis and Colorado Springs for physicians into your new profession as military and Public Health Service doctors.
When I hear about the can-do spirit of America's doctors in uniform, it reminds me of a story about a group of marines. I hope those of you in the other services will forgive me for telling this, but the get-it-done spirit applies to all of America's physicians in uniform. These marines had been sent to the Army airborne school for training. And came the day for the first jump, the training officer told them that the planes would come in at 1,500 feet, they would jump from the plane, hit the ground, and move south. The marines seemed a little disturbed by this, and they went into a huddle. Then one of them as a spokesman for the group went to the officer and asked couldn't the plane come in at 500 feet instead of 1,500? And the officer explained that if they took the plane in too low, it wouldn't give them time for the parachutes to open. And he said, "Oh, you mean we're wearing parachutes?" [Laughter]
A quarter century ago, Douglas MacArthur gave his farewell address to the Long Gray Line, the cadets of West Point. He stood in the vast hall of the academy, below the balcony they call the poop deck, and spoke about the soul, not just of the Army but of all the services that you now enter. "The Long Gray Line," he said, "has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: duty, honor, country."
1971 film "The Omega Man" DVD movie:
01:18:20
Richie: You know, someone ought to do something about those people. How about it? You going to give them the serum?
US Army Colonel Robert Neville: Fat chance.
Richie: How come?
US Army Colonel Robert Neville: Well, we'd have to be here for a few more months, for one thing. For another thing, they're homicidal maniacs, for God's sake.
Richie: Hey man, they're humans. I mean, they're sick, you know?
US Army Colonel Robert Neville: They're vermin.
Richie: Okay, then. If you don't want to cure them, then kill them.
US Army Colonel Robert Neville: If I just knew where they're at.
01:19:10
Richie: You've been looking to kill them for practically two whole years now. Either kill them or cure them, damn it.
US Army Colonel Robert Neville: No need. They're half-dead right now.
Richie: You know what, mister? You're hostile. You just don't belong.
US Army Colonel Robert Neville: Nice of you to let me hang around.
Richie: At times, you scare me more than Matthias does.
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1-05 - You Can't Go Home Again 11/15/04
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-105.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1X05 - YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN
Original Airdate: February 4, 2005 (USA)
Unnamed Moon - Inside the Raider
Starbuck: First on the list: seal you up
http://www.lyrics007.com/Oingo%20Boingo%20Lyrics/Dead%20Mans%20Party%20Lyrics.html
Title: Oingo Boingo - Dead Mans Party lyrics
I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go
Walkin' with a dead man over my shoulder
Waiting for an invitation to arrive
Goin' to a party where no one's still alive
Chorus
I was struck by lighting
Walkin' down the street
I was hit by something last night in my sleep
It's a dead man's party
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/Still/1987/Navy/DN-ST-87-11415.JPEG
ID: DN-ST-87-11415
Service Depicted: Navy
An F-14A Tomcat aircraft enters a barricade during an emergency landing aboard the aircraft carrier
The recovery was successful
Camera Operator: PH3 HALL
http://www.cswap.com/1990/The_Hunt_for_Red_October/cap/en/12_Parts/j/01_11
The Hunt for Red October
1:11:43
This business will get out of control
and we'll be lucky to live through it.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38654
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Radio Address to the Nation on Armed Forces Day and Defense Spending
May 18, 1985
My fellow Americans:
Not too long ago one of our Ambassadors visited an American armored cavalry regiment stationed on the NATO line in Germany. As he returned to his helicopter, he was followed by a young 19-year-old trooper. The trooper asked him if he could get a message to the President. Well, the Ambassador said that sometimes getting messages to the President was part of his job. And the young trooper then said, "Will you tell him we're proud to be here, and we ain't scared of nothin."
Well, not long ago the Ambassador was in Washington and told me the sequel to that incident. I'd repeated a story in a talk that was carried on our Voice of America radio program, and there in that base in Germany the young trooper heard the broadcast and knew that I'd received his message. His commanding officer said that he ran down the company street yelling: "The system works! The system works!"
Well, the system does work, but not just because Ambassadors can get messages from a 19-year-old trooper to the President. Our system—this way of life we call democracy and freedom—really works because of the dedicated Americans like that GI in Germany, who've always been willing to defend our way of life from foreign aggressors—from those who do not love freedom and seek to destroy it.
1971 film "The Omega Man" DVD movie:
01:20:00
US Army Colonel Robert Neville: Hey, Dutch!
Dutch: How's Richie?
US Army Colonel Robert Neville: Beautiful. It works.
Dutch: It works. It works? It works! It works! It works! It works. Oh my God, it's a beautiful world.
http://www.cswap.com/1985/Back_to_the_Future/cap/en/4_Parts/a/00_48
Back to the Future
:48:34
I've had enough jokes for one evening.
Good night, future boy!
:48:37
- No, wait, Doc.
:48:38
The bruise on your head.
I know how that happened. You told me.
:48:43
You were standing on your toilet
hanging a clock...
:48:45
...and you fell
and hit your head on the sink.
:48:47
That's when you got the idea
for the flux capacitor which...
:48:51
...is what makes time travel possible.
:49:07
There's something wrong with
the starter, so I hid it here.
:49:21
After I fell off my toilet...
:49:24
...I drew this.
:49:29
The flux capacitor.
:49:48
It works!
:49:51
It works!
:49:54
I finally invent something that works!
:49:57
You bet your ass it works.
2007 film "I Am Legend" DVD movie:
00:36:57
US Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Neville: GA series, serum 391, Compound 6 ineffective on humans.
