That just caught up with me. Along the girl named Phoebe that Kerry Burgess picked out randomly on a dance floor in 1981, he also asked a girl to dance in 1986 one night in Wisconsin and that he knew long enough for me to now remember details about.
In the context of my artificial memory, I was stationed at the United States Navy base in Great Lakes Illinois and as a United States Navy Fire Controlman 3rd Class Petty Officer I was attending the Class A school for the Fire Controlman occupational rating and which teaches the fundamentals of the computer equipment that rating maintains for the weapons systems of United States Navy warships and other ships that have defensive weapons systems.
I do not recall the day I met her. That must have been the summer of 1986 and I think was about four to six weeks after I had arrived in Illinois after I had left an earlier school in Orlando Florida.
I just caught the association. Her birthday was 2 September 1965. I always remember that because it was exactly two months before my birthdate.
I don't recall the name of the bar but I remember it was a popular place and it was a fairly long drive from the US Navy base in North Chicago to that dance club in Wisconsin. There were a lot of women in that bar that night. I walked up and asked her to dance and we dated for a long time after that. I was thinking of a her again recently when I watched the 1986 film "Short Circuit" on television.
She was from Arlington Heights. I stayed there several times in that condo in Arlington Heights.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at a Memorial Day Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia
May 26th, 1986
Today is the day we put aside to remember fallen heroes and to pray that no heroes will ever have to die for us again. It's a day of thanks for the valor of others, a day to remember the splendor of America and those of her children who rest in this cemetery and others. It's a day to be with the family and remember.
I was thinking this morning that across the country children and their parents will be going to the town parade and the young ones will sit on the sidewalks and wave their flags as the band goes by. Later, maybe, they'll have a cookout or a day at the beach. And that's good, because today is a day to be with the family and to remember.
Arlington, this place of so many memories, is a fitting place for some remembering. So many wonderful men and women rest here, men and women who led colorful, vivid, and passionate lives. There are the greats of the military: Bull Halsey and the Admirals Leahy, father and son; Black Jack Pershing; and the GI's general, Omar Bradley. Great men all, military men. But there are others here known for other things.
Here in Arlington rests a sharecropper's son who became a hero to a lonely people. Joe Louis came from nowhere, but he knew how to fight. And he galvanized a nation in the days after Pearl Harbor when he put on the uniform of his country and said, "I know we'll win because we're on God's side." Audie Murphy is here, Audie Murphy of the wild, wild courage. For what else would you call it when a man bounds to the top of a disabled tank, stops an enemy advance, saves lives, and rallies his men, and all of it single-handedly. When he radioed for artillery support and was asked how close the enemy was to his position, he said, "Wait a minute and I'll let you speak to them." [Laughter]
Michael Smith is here, and Dick Scobee, both of the space shuttle Challenger. Their courage wasn't wild, but thoughtful, the mature and measured courage of career professionals who took prudent risks for great reward—in their case, to advance the sum total of knowledge in the world. They're only the latest to rest here; they join other great explorers with names like Grissom and Chaffee.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is here, the great jurist and fighter for the right. A poet searching for an image of true majesty could not rest until he seized on "Holmes dissenting in a sordid age." Young Holmes served in the Civil War. He might have been thinking of the crosses and stars of Arlington when he wrote: "At the grave of a hero we end, not with sorrow at the inevitable loss, but with the contagion of his courage; and with a kind of desperate joy we go back to the fight."
All of these men were different, but they shared this in common: They loved America very much. There was nothing they wouldn't do for her. And they loved with the sureness of the young. It's hard not to think of the young in a place like this, for it's the young who do the fighting and dying when a peace fails and a war begins. Not far from here is the statue of the three servicemen—the three fighting boys of Vietnam. It, too, has majesty and more. Perhaps you've seen it—three rough boys walking together, looking ahead with a steady gaze. There's something wounded about them, a kind of resigned toughness. But there's an unexpected tenderness, too. At first you don't really notice, but then you see it. The three are touching each other, as if they're supporting each other, helping each other on.
I know that many veterans of Vietnam will gather today, some of them perhaps by the wall. And they're still helping each other on. They were quite a group, the boys of Vietnam—boys who fought a terrible and vicious war without enough support from home, boys who were dodging bullets while we debated the efficacy of the battle. It was often our poor who fought in that war; it was the unpampered boys of the working class who picked up the rifles and went on the march. They learned not to rely on us; they learned to rely on each other.
From 9/2/1965 ( my first day as university student and graduate student instructor at Princeton University Princeton New Jersey United States where I earned doctor of medicine degree as Dr. Thomas Reagan MD ) to 10/11/1976 ( the United States of America Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States approved by United States President Gerald Ford and applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 4057 days
From 10/11/1976 ( the United States of America Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States approved by United States President Gerald Ford and applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) to 11/20/1987 ( premiere US film "Date with an Angel" ) is 4057 days
From 2/17/1965 ( I am active duty United States Navy SEAL ) to 11/20/1987 ( premiere US film "Date with an Angel" )(Friday) is 8311 days
8311 = 1 + 4155 + 4155
From 2/17/1965 ( I am active duty United States Navy SEAL ) to 7/4/1976 ( I successfully diverted the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system as Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in my privately financed nuclear-pulse propulsion spaceship ) is 4155 days
From 10/11/1976 ( the United States of America Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States approved by United States President Gerald Ford and applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) To 11/20/1987 ( premiere US film "Date with an Angel" )(Friday) is 4057 days
4057 = 1 + 2028 + 2028
From 10/11/1976 ( the United States of America Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States approved by United States President Gerald Ford and applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) To 5/1/1982 ( my graduation and commissioning from the United States Naval Academy Class of 1982 as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 2028 days
From 11/11/1966 ( I was United States Gemini 12 spacecraft United States Navy astronaut entering orbit of the planet Earth ) To 11/20/1987 ( premiere US film "Date with an Angel" starring my wife )(Friday) is 7679 days
7679 = 1 + 3839 + 3839
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) To 1/18/1974 ( my first landing the planet Venus and my documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Venus ) is 3839 days
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Date with an Angel (1987)
Release Date: 20 November 1987 (USA)
Tagline: Jim is about to marry a princess... but he's in love with an angel.
Phoebe Cates ... Patty Winston
From 9/2/1965 ( my first day as university student and graduate student instructor at Princeton University Princeton New Jersey United States where I earned doctor of medicine degree as Dr. Thomas Reagan MD ) to 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States of America congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 3577 days
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree ) is 3577 days
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States of America congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 4356 days
4356 = 2178 + 2178
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 2/17/1965 ( I am active duty United States Navy SEAL ) is 2178 days
From 11/16/1973 ( I was United States Skylab 4 space station astronaut entering orbit of planet Earth before leaving orbit in my privately financed spaceship for my 18 January 1974 first landing on planet Venus ) To 9/2/1974 ( I returned to planet Earth after my 18 January 1974 first landing planet Venus ) is 290 days
From 9/2/1974 ( I returned to planet Earth after my 18 January 1974 first landing planet Venus ) To 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States of America congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 290 days
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States of America congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 4356 days
From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 2/5/1971 ( I was United States Apollo 14 Antares spacecraft command astronaut landing on Earth's moon ) is 4356 days
From 5/22/1969 ( I was United States Apollo 10 spacecraft United States Navy astronaut in orbit of Earth's moon ) To 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States of America congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 2219 days
From 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States of America congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) To 7/16/1981 ( my wife ) is 2219 days
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H.J.RES.519
Title: Joint resolution to provide for the appointment of George Washington to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States.
Sponsor: Rep Biaggi, Mario [NY-10] (introduced 6/19/1975)
Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 10/11/1976 Public law 94-479.
From 7/21/1969 ( I was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut walking on the planet Earth's moon as United States Navy Commander Thomas Reagan ) to 1/21/1976 ( my first landing the planet Mars and my documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 2375 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 9/2/1965 ( my first day as university student and graduate student instructor at Princeton University Princeton New Jersey United States where I earned doctor of medicine degree as Dr. Thomas Reagan MD ) is 2375 days
From 5/21/1969 ( I am Princeton University doctor of medicine graduate as Dr Thomas Reagan MD ) to 1/21/1976 ( my first landing the planet Mars and my documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 2436 days
2436 = 1218 + 1218
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 11/15/1966 ( the United States Gemini 12 spacecraft splashdown and as Tom Reagan the US Navy officer I was United States Gemini 12 spacecraft United States Navy astronaut returning from orbit of the planet Earth ) is 1218 days
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Solar System: Wed 1976 Jan 21
Mars
Distance (AU)
0.743
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Result:
0.743 astronomical unit = 69 066 026.667 mile [survey, US]
