http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977
1977
June 6–9 – Jubilee celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate 25 years of Elizabeth II's reign.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/HMTheQueen/TheQueenandspecialanniversaries/TheQueensSilverJubilee1977.aspx
The official website of The British Monarchy
Home Her Majesty The Queen Jubilees and other milestones The Queen's Silver Jubilee, 1977
In 1977 The Queen's Silver Jubilee was marked with celebrations at every level throughout the country and Commonwealth.
The actual anniversary of The Queen's accession on 6 February 1952 was commemorated in church services throughout that month. The Queen spent the anniversary weekend at Windsor with her family and the full jubilee celebrations began in the summer of 1977.
On 4 May at the Palace of Westminster both Houses of Parliament presented loyal addresses to The Queen, who in her reply stressed that the keynote of the jubilee was to be the unity of the nation.
During the summer months The Queen embarked on a large scale tour, having decided that she wished to mark her jubilee by meeting as many of her people as possible. No other Sovereign had visited so much of Britain in the course of just three months - the six jubilee tours in the UK and Northern Ireland covered 36 counties. The home tours began in Glasgow on 17 May, with greater crowds than the city had ever seen before. The tours continued throughout England and Wales - in Lancashire over a million people turned out on one day - before culminating in a visit to Northern Ireland.
Official overseas visits were also made to Western Samoa, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, Tasmania, Papua New Guinea, Canada and the West Indies. During the year it was estimated that The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh travelled 56,000 miles.
The climax of the national celebrations came in early June. On the evening of Monday 6 June, The Queen lit a bonfire beacon at Windsor which started a chain of beacons across the country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Jubilee_of_Elizabeth_II
Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II
The Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other Commonwealth realms. It was celebrated with large-scale parties and parades throughout the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth throughout 1977, culminating in June with the official "Jubilee Days," held to coincide with the Queen's Official Birthday.
June celebrations in London
On 6 June, the Queen lit a bonfire beacon at Windsor Castle, whose light spread across the night in a chain of other beacons throughout the country. On 7 June, crowds lined the procession to St Paul's Cathedral, where the royal family attended a Service of Thanksgiving alongside many world leaders, including United States President Jimmy Carter, as well as all of the living former Prime Ministers, stretching back from Harold Macmillan all the way to Harold Wilson. The service was followed by lunch in the Guildhall, hosted by the Lord Mayor of the City of London Peter Vanneck. At the reception, the Queen was quoted as saying,
"When I was twenty-one I pledged my life to the service of our people and I asked for God's help to make good that vow. Although that vow was made in my salad days, when I was green in judgement, I do not regret nor retract one word of it."
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30614FD355D167493C4A9178DD85F438785F9
The New York Times Archives
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A British Jubilee Commemorates 25 Tough Years; British Marking the Queen's Jubilee With a Week of Celebrations
By R.W. APPLE Jr. Special to The New York Times
June 6, 1977, Monday
Section: The Week In Review, Page 61, 1230 words
LONDON, June 5 On a February morning in 1952, Princess Elizabeth awoke at Treetops, the African game lodge, to find that she had become Queen Elizabeth II on the death of her father.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B13FD355D167493C5A9178DD85F438785F9
The New York Times Archives
Article Preview
100 Bonfires Mark Elizabeth's Jubilee; 100 Bonfires Blaze Across Britain To Mark Queen's Silver Jubilee
By R.W. APPLE Jr. Special to The New York Times
June 7, 1977, Tuesday
Page 1, 1058 words
LONDON, June 6 Queen Elizabeth II inaugurated a week-long celebration of her silver jubilee on the British throne tonight by lighting a 30-foot bonfire on a hill near Windsor Castle.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:48 PM
http://www.cswap.com/2005/Batman_Begins/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_03
Batman Begins
:03:58
Who are you?
:03:59
My name is merely Ducard,
but I speak for Ra's al Ghul...
:04:03
...a man greatly feared
by the criminal underworld.
:04:06
A man who can offer you a path.
:04:09
What makes you think I need a path?
:04:11
Someone like you
is only here by choice.
:04:14
You have been exploring
the criminal fraternity...
:04:16
...but whatever
your original intentions...
:04:20
...you have become truly lost.
http://www.cswap.com/1996/Star_Trek:_First_Contact/cap/en/25fps/a/00_55
Star Trek: First Contact
:55:00
- I wish I had a picture of this.
- What?
:55:06
In the future, this whole area
becomes an historical monument.
:55:11
You're standing on the exact spot
where your statue is going to be.
:55:16
Statue?
:55:19
It's marble, about 20 metres tall.
You're looking up at the sky.
:55:24
Your hand
is reaching toward the future.
:55:28
I've got to take a leak.
:55:32
Leak? I'm not detecting any leak.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:48 PM
From 3/4/1976 ( my 17th birthday UK enroute to comet in the outer solar system ) to 12/1/2002 ( premiere TV episode "The Simpsons, Helter Shelter" ) is: 9768 days
9768 = 4884 + 4884
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 11/28/1976 ( I launched from the Jupiter moon Callisto for Earth and home ) is: 4884 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Shelter
Orig. airdate December 1, 2002
After Homer suffers a brain injury at work, Mr. Burns offers his family tickets in a luxury sky box at a hockey game as compensation. Lisa receives a player's hockey stick for shouting advice to him during the game. However, termites, which were living in the stick, end up eating away at the entire Simpson house. An exterminator says their house should be tented and fumigated, and they cannot return for six months. However, the family has no place to go. They tried to stay with Lenny and then Comic Book Guy but their apartments were too weird. At Moe's, their last resort, Barney and Carl inform the Simpsons about a reality show, where a family is put in a Victorian house, where they must live like it was the year 1895. Homer is reluctant at first, but then they go to the reality show.
At the studio, the executives screen many families and finally they settle on the Simpsons, after viewing Homer's overreactions over nothing. They are taken to the Victorian house and shown around by the Network Executive, who says that they will be filmed round the clock. The only thing of the 20th century there is a "Confessional Room", which is a small room with a video camera where they say what they feel about the lifestyle. The family struggles with all of the drastic changes in their daily life and are pretty miserable, much to the delight of the show's audience. Homer tries to lighten up the family, saying they should be glad on TV, and begin to conform to their new lives cheerily. This is not deemed as entertaining, however, and viewership begins to drop. In attempts to save the show, the executives decide to introduce Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley into the household. But even his presence (and that of a taser which he uses on Homer) does not boost the ratings. Finally, one of the executives comes up with an idea. The house is airlifted at night and put into a river.
The Simpsons are shocked to find what had happened the next morning, and the house finally washes up on shore and falls apart, with Squiggy in it. The network crew is filming it and loving the drama that unfolds. They then break for lunch, but deny the Simpsons any of it so they go to eat some bugs. Later on, the family is confronted by a bunch of savage-looking people, who turn out to be contestants in other reality shows, whom the network ditched after they failed in their tasks. They decide to overpower the crew and return to civilization. Together with the Simpsons, they attack the crew, overpowering them. Homer then tried to crush the helicopter with a giant boulder but he was pushed into the ground. Finally at home, Homer decides to watch scripted TV shows, as he has had it with reality shows, but the family finds more pleasure in watching him continually spraying himself in the eye with the hose.
Trivia
This is the last time to date that Bart has prank called Moe, this time via morse code.
http://awards.universalpictures.com/pdf/breach.pdf
189 INT. HANSSEN HOME - GARAGE - NIGHT 189
Hanssen opens the TRUNK of his Taurus. Inside we find that LAWN & LEAF BAG, sealed.
HANSSEN (V.O., CONT’D)
Something has aroused the sleeping tiger. Perhaps you know better than I.
http://www.cswap.com/1996/Star_Trek:_First_Contact/cap/en/25fps/a/00_03
Star Trek: First Contact
:04:13
Authorisation: Picard 47-AT.
:04:16
- Did I catch you at a bad time?
- No, Admiral, of course not.
:04:21
I've just heard that our colony on
Ivor Prime has been destroyed.
:04:27
- Long-range sensors...
- Yes, I know. The Borg.
:04:34
Captain's log: Stardate 50893.5.
:04:38
The moment I have dreaded for
nearly six years has finally arrived.
:04:43
The Borg, our lethal enemy, have
begun an invasion of the Federation.
:04:49
This time
there may be no stopping them.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Cmdr. William Riker: Captain, why we are we out here chasing comets?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Let's just say Starfleet has every confidence in the Enterprise and her crew - they're just not sure about her Captain. They believe that a man who was once captured and assimilated by the Borg should not be put in a situation where he would face them again. To do so would introduce "an unstable element to a critical situation."
Cmdr. William Riker: That's ridiculous. Your experience with the Borg makes you the perfect man to lead this fight.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Admiral Hayes disagrees.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:48 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_%28Quantum_Leap_episode%29
Originally shown on Easter Sunday, 1989, the pilot was a two-hour movie simply known as Quantum Leap. When the show returned for new episodes in September of that year, however, NBC aired a severely edited (90-minute) version of the pilot called "Genesis."
Original airdate 1989-03-26
A man wakes up in a bed, thinking, "I did it!" His next thought is, "Did what?" His name is Tom Stratton. It's 1956. He works for the Air Force flying planes, and he's got a beautiful wife and a nice son. There's just one problem: he's pretty sure that his name's not Tom Stratton, it's Sam. But he can't even remember his last name. In fact, he's also pretty sure that the year shouldn't be 1956. And worst of all, he's never flown a plane in his life. (OK, make that more than one problem.)
Help (such as it is) comes along in the form of a man named Al. There's just one problem with Al: he's not really there. He's just a hologram. And holograms didn't exist back in 1956. And Al has the tendency to walk through invisible doors. Sam -- whoever he is -- is having a very bad day.
Eventually, Al explains to Sam that he's a part of a time-travel experiment from the future. He "leaped" into the past, but somehow wound up as Tom Stratton. But Tom Stratton died when attempting to fly the Mach-2...which, for Sam, is coming up in just a couple of days. If Sam can survive that, he'll change history, Al says, and hopefully "leap" again.
However, the leap doesn't take Sam home, as he hopes. Instead, he winds up as a minor-league baseball player back in 1968, trying to win his last game for his team.
Sam is really fed up with Al, and wants to know whose hairbrain idea this whole project was in the first place. Al tells him: it's Sam himself. Project Quantum Leap was his idea. "If anyone can figure out how to get you home," Al tells Sam, "it's you."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krusty
Herschel Shmoikel Pinkus Yerucham Krustofsky , more commonly known as Krusty the Clown (or Krusty the Klown), is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. According to his fictional biography, as pieced together from various episodes and comic books, he is a world professional clown who is currently signed to Krustylu Studios clowning on its enterprise brand.
In the Simpsons' world, there are everything from Krusty alarm clocks, to his own brand of legal documents
From 3/4/1976 ( my 17th birthday UK enroute to comet in the outer solar system ) to 12/1/2002 ( premiere TV episode "The Simpsons, Helter Shelter" ) is: 9768 days
9768 = 4884 + 4884
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 11/28/1976 ( I launched from the Jupiter moon Callisto for Earth and home ) is: 4884 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Shelter
Orig. airdate December 1, 2002
After Homer suffers a brain injury at work, Mr. Burns offers his family tickets in a luxury sky box at a hockey game as compensation. Lisa receives a player's hockey stick for shouting advice to him during the game. However, termites, which were living in the stick, end up eating away at the entire Simpson house. An exterminator says their house should be tented and fumigated, and they cannot return for six months. However, the family has no place to go. They tried to stay with Lenny and then Comic Book Guy but their apartments were too weird. At Moe's, their last resort, Barney and Carl inform the Simpsons about a reality show, where a family is put in a Victorian house, where they must live like it was the year 1895. Homer is reluctant at first, but then they go to the reality show.
At the studio, the executives screen many families and finally they settle on the Simpsons, after viewing Homer's overreactions over nothing. They are taken to the Victorian house and shown around by the Network Executive, who says that they will be filmed round the clock. The only thing of the 20th century there is a "Confessional Room", which is a small room with a video camera where they say what they feel about the lifestyle. The family struggles with all of the drastic changes in their daily life and are pretty miserable, much to the delight of the show's audience. Homer tries to lighten up the family, saying they should be glad on TV, and begin to conform to their new lives cheerily. This is not deemed as entertaining, however, and viewership begins to drop. In attempts to save the show, the executives decide to introduce Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley into the household. But even his presence (and that of a taser which he uses on Homer) does not boost the ratings. Finally, one of the executives comes up with an idea. The house is airlifted at night and put into a river.
The Simpsons are shocked to find what had happened the next morning, and the house finally washes up on shore and falls apart, with Squiggy in it. The network crew is filming it and loving the drama that unfolds. They then break for lunch, but deny the Simpsons any of it so they go to eat some bugs. Later on, the family is confronted by a bunch of savage-looking people, who turn out to be contestants in other reality shows, whom the network ditched after they failed in their tasks. They decide to overpower the crew and return to civilization. Together with the Simpsons, they attack the crew, overpowering them. Homer then tried to crush the helicopter with a giant boulder but he was pushed into the ground. Finally at home, Homer decides to watch scripted TV shows, as he has had it with reality shows, but the family finds more pleasure in watching him continually spraying himself in the eye with the hose.
Trivia
This is the last time to date that Bart has prank called Moe, this time via morse code.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 30 January 2008 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/13/10 2:05 PM
Two of the last three scenes from a dream just before I awoke just now from a nap are too vague to describe in a lot of detail. In that first scene of the last three I was in a small room that I keep wanting to say was a bus terminal but it must have been a room with seats for, I don't know, about ten people and was a small room but I was vaguely aware of the tile floor and the walls and vaguely some chairs. I was also aware of something about having to be in that room for a long time and I seemed to be weighing the pros and cons of my existence in that room. I was also vaguely aware of the sense that I might have been hoarding food as I was in there. I am also vaguely aware that President Clinton might have also been in there. The second scene of the last three has mostly vanished from my mind by now as I was writing about that first scene. The last scene has me, vaguely, getting out of a car and waking towards a US military building that is the entrance to some kind of US installation and I can visualize the details fairly well and I am walking through the surrounding structures and I am going there to pass through a security checkpoint as though I am entering a US installation. I am vaguely aware of some familiar dialog but that is too vague to describe. I am holding up my identification for the people inside the building and although I cannot see anybody inside, as is probably the design of the building, I get the sense no one is really looking at my identification. I hold it up the entire time I walk around the outside of the building and I even walk to the entrance of that rectangular building and I see that the door is slightly ajar and I hold up my I.D. to that open door and I have the briefest moment where I look through the slightly open door and the inside is dark and I cannot see anything but I have the sense of a presence of a US military person inside at his post in that building. I decide they must have seen my I.D. and I continue walking. As I think about that scene I think to myself that I actually make a circle around that building and I am walking back to the car I came there in. As I walk back I have an image in my mind where I am looking at the text on the back of my I.D. card and the only details I remember is that there is a sections that is labeled "Votes" and the value associated with that caption is in the range of 11 million, 2 hundred thousand but I cannot remember the precise number or what it even means. When I get back to the car though, the people inside are different but I cannot now recall who was in there before and I am left with the vague sense that the difference is simply because the watch has changed, as though they are a different shift and are a different group there at work at their assignment, whatever that is. In the car this are Patrick Stewart at the wheel of what I guess is a black Camaro and next to him is William Shatner. I get into the front seat and I wonder if one of us should get in the back seat because William Shatner is all compressed in the middle and I see his feet as he stuggles to, I don't know. He seems real uncomfortable because of the seating. I notice Patrick Stewart is eating a sandwich. He mentions that he "started a strike" today although that is not his exact dialog but I know what he means because I think that was relevant to the second scene which I do not now recall. I think the dream might have lasted a few more seconds after that dialog but I am not certain. I had the sense that Patrick Stewart was trying to visually identify me as I walked to the car because I was wearing sunglasses. I think I took off the sunglasses as I got into the car. The dialog about the strike has something to do with a labor strike, and I thought that would jog my memory as I write this about that earlier scene but it seems to be completely gone from my memory now. I remember something about how a different term was being used for that strike but I do not now recall what was being used. Since that dialog I have also been wondering if it was actually a reference to that dialog in the 1991 film "Flight of the Intruder" and about how "Grafton" only needed a strike of the match.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/13/10 2:27 PM
That last scene in the car also reminds me of that dialog from "Mission To Mars" about the unlikely success of three captains in one ship.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 13 March 2010 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:48 PM
http://www.cswap.com/2000/Pitch_Black/cap/en/25fps/a/00_38
Pitch Black
:39:02
What?
:39:03
It's the winner of the look-alike contest.
:39:23
-Who were these people, anyway? Miners?
-Looks like geologists.
:39:26
An advance team,
moves from rock to rock.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:48 PM
http://www.cswap.com/1996/Star_Trek:_First_Contact/cap/en/25fps/a/00_55
Star Trek: First Contact
:56:00
Reports of my assimilation
are greatly exaggerated.
:56:04
I found something you lost.
:56:10
- I am a Klingon.
- Mr Worf, report.
:56:14
The Borg control over half the ship.
There's no power to the bridge.
:56:21
I've accessed
a Borg neural processor.
:56:26
They're transforming the deflector
dish into an interplexing beacon
:56:31
to establish a link with the Borg
living in the 21st century.
From 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford with law degree ) to 2/16/2007 ( premiere US movie "Breach" ) is 15 days, 9 months, 33 years
'1-59-33' ( my birth date US )
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401997/
Breach (2007)
Release Date: 16 February 2007 (USA)
Tagline: Inspired by the true story of the greatest security breach in U.S. history
Plot Outline: Based on the true story, FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was ultimately convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
Ryan Phillippe ... Eric O'Neill
Laura Linney ... Kate Burroughs
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=5662
Gerald Ford
XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977
176 - Remarks on Awarding the Congressional Medal of Honor to Four Members of the Armed Forces.
March 4th, 1976
Medal of Honor recipients and their families, distinguished Members of the Congress, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Middendorf, Secretary Reed, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ladies and gentlemen:
We are gathered here today to honor four Americans for exceptional military gallantry in the service of our Nation. All four of these men distinguished themselves above and beyond the call of duty. I deeply regret that one of the awards, to the late Captain Lance P. Sijan, of the United States Air Force, is posthumous. The other three, Rear Admiral James P. Stockdale, United States Navy; Colonel George E. Day, United States Air Force; and Lieutenant Thomas R. Norris, United States Naval Reserve, are here with us today.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 07/18/10 8:44 PM
I guess that after looking at the map of
I started thinking that I would paint those numbers on the side of the road at the intersection of Highway
which is a crossroads that has a secondary street labeled as
Road that runs a short distance to the river.
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"Battlestar Galactica"
"Islanded in a Stream of Stars"
USA 6 March 2009
Episode 18 Season 4 DVD video:
00:09:42
Colonel Saul Tigh - Colonial Fleet Battlestar Galactica Executive Officer: That frakking Cylon rep Sonia wanted to know when you'd be transferring your flag.
"Battlestar Galactica"
"Islanded in a Stream of Stars"
USA 6 March 2009
Episode 18 Season 4 DVD video:
00:11:12
Number Six - Cylon-Human Alliance representative: Let me speak! As you all know, we agreed to accept Admiral Adama's military authority in return for a seat on this Council.
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season4/galactica-405.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
4X05 - THE ROAD [ LESS ] TRAVELED
ORIGINAL AIRDATE (SciFi): 02-MAY-2008
Anders: What did you just say?
Leoben: Forward guard, right? I saw a couple games. You were good. But after all the celebrity and acclaim, what were you? Just another face selling magazines, another piece of scoreboard trivia, and you always knew you were destined for more. You were just waiting for your singular moment of clarity.
[ Anders: ] Well, maybe I just found it.
Leoben: You kill me, Kara's dream dies with me.
Anders: I don't think so. I think you download into another Leoben body and you spew more lies.
[ Leoben: ] No one's coming back. We were lured out of resurrection range. Ship was attacked. We survived. The baseship was damaged. We were set adrift.
Anders: What are you talking about? Who attacked you?
[ Leoben: ] War has broken out between the Cylon. Battle lines have been drawn between those who embrace their nature, and those who fear it.
Anders, leaving: Good. You can blow yourselves to hell for all I care.
[ Leoben: ] That's one way, that's one way. There's another. An alliance. Allow our paths to converge. You save us from our savage brothers. And our old one, the Hybrid, will show Kara the righteous path. And together, they'll lead us to the Promised Land. Together, we will find Earth.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38835
Proclamation 5356—National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day, 1985
June 27th, 1985
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Since the Revolutionary War, America's men and women have made unselfish sacrifices to defend freedom. In each of America's wars, America's prisoners of war have faced extraordinary hardships and overcome them through extraordinary sacrifices. The bravery, suffering, and profound devotion to duty of our P.O.W.s and M.I.A.s have earned them a preeminent place in the hearts of all Americans. Their heroism is a beacon to follow forever. Their spirit of hope and commitment to the defense of freedom reflects the basic tenets of our Nation.
This country deeply appreciates the pain and suffering endured by families whose fathers, sons, husbands, or brothers are today still missing or unaccounted for. These families are an example of the strength and patriotism of all Americans. We as a people are united in supporting efforts to return the captive, recover the missing, resolve the accounting, and relieve the suffering of the families who wait. We accept our continuing obligation to these missing servicemen. Until the P.O.W./M.I.A. issue is resolved, it will continue to be a matter of the highest national priority. As a symbol of this national commitment, the P.O.W./M.I.A. Flag will fly over the White House, the Departments of State and Defense, the Veterans' Administration, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on July 19, 1985, and over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
By Senate Joint Resolution 87, the Congress has designated July 19, 1985, as "National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day." On this day, we recognize the special debt all Americans owe to our fellow citizens who gave up their freedom in the service of our country; we owe no less to their families.
Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Friday, July 19, 1985, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day. I call on all Americans to join in honoring all former American prisoners of war, those still missing, and their families who have endured and still suffer extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of this country. I also call upon State and local officials and private organizations to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eightyfive, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and ninth.
RONALD REAGAN
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/21486b.htm
Executive Order 12548 -- Grazing Fees
February 14, 1986
Excerpt from copy of book, "The Reagan Diaries": 1986 Wednesday, February 19
Watched two short films - one on my unfavorite actor, Quadafy & one on how C.I.A. officers are made. [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reagan_Diaries
Publication date May 22, 2007
The Reagan Diaries is an edited version of diaries written by President Ronald Reagan while in the White House.
http://www.cswap.com/2001/Behind_Enemy_Lines/cap/en/25fps/a/00_24
Behind Enemy Lines
:24:38
- Any beacon activity?
- Not yet, Admiral.
:24:41
We have a radar plot of flight path
from feet dry to last contact.
:24:45
Here in yellow is the assigned path.
:24:51
ln the red is actual.
:25:00
Lost contact is here.
:25:03
They're off-mission. What the hell happened?
:25:05
lt'll be tough to pick up a beacon signal,
even from a satellite.
:25:10
The terrain is extremely rough.
:25:12
Damn weather's sure not helping.
:25:14
Contact Admiral Piquet,
alert NATO chain of command.
:25:17
Make sure we have a FLASH op rep
out over all US national circuits.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=37786
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Proclamation 5520 - National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day, 1986
August 28, 1986
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Courage and sacrifice are no strangers to America. In every war since our first struggle for independence, America's prisoners of war have endured terrible hardships and have been called upon to make extraordinary sacrifices. The bravery, perseverance, and profound devotion to duty of our POWs and MIAs have earned them a place of honor in the hearts of all Americans. Their heroism is an inspiration to future generations. Their spirit of hope and their commitment to the defense of freedom are a claim on our loyalty to them.
RONALD REAGAN
Saturday, February 20, 2010 Posted by H.V.O.M at 1:09 PM
Scout
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Saturday, February 20, 2010 Posted by H.V.O.M at 1:13 PM
Beacon
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Proclamation 6794 - Loyalty Day, 1995
April 29, 1995
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Our country's rich diversity of peoples and cultures has been called "the noble experiment." From its beginnings, our great democracy has guaranteed its citizens the blessings of freedom and the right of self-determination. Each year, with the coming of spring and the rebirth of nature, we pause to consider the progress of our Nation and to reaffirm our allegiance to the American experiment.
Two hundred and twenty years ago in Lexington, Massachusetts, a ragged group of colonial Americans faced a column of British soldiers. As the smoke cleared from the "shot heard round the world," eight American "Minutemen" lay dead—their blood spilled along the path to a new Nation on this soil. Their gift of freedom is held sacred to this day.
All Americans can be proud of the heritage of courage and sacrifice that has extended unbroken through generations of our citizens. The success of the United States today is seen both in our continued prosperity and strength and in our role as an international beacon of liberty. As we recall those who gave their lives for our freedom, we see our Nation's history reflected in their ranks—from the tireless "Minutemen" in Lexington to the brave men and women who fought in the Persian Gulf. These fine citizens, along with their families and those who have served on the home front, deserve our profound respect and gratitude. Let history forever record our loyalty to their legacy.
The Congress, by Public Law 85-529, has designated May 1 of each year as "Loyalty Day." We spend this day in celebration of our Constitution and our precious Bill of Rights and in honor of the sacrifices that have enabled this great charter to endure.
Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 1995, as Loyalty Day. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities, including public recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States. I also call upon government officials to display the flag on all government buildings and grounds on this day.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and nineteenth.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Sometimes_a_Great_Notion
Sometimes a Great Notion
Episode No. Season 4, Episode 11
US airdate January 16, 2009
Overview
Kara Thrace learns that the dire predictions of the Cylon Hybrid might be correct, and a devastating discovery plunges the Fleet into chaos and despair.
Act 2
Kara Thrace and Leoben continue to narrow in on the Colonial signal when she finds the beacon: a standard issue Colonial device used for all aircraft, part of their inertial navigation system.
