1883
"The Crossing"
TV-series season 1 episode 4
(from internet transcript)
Elsa Dutton: [narration] This place seems confused by the rules of night and day. Or perhaps it simply ignores them, refusing to cool when the sun fades. It's as if God has not yet decided what this place should become. Will it be desert? Will it be prairie? Every living thing is armed with thorns and horns and fangs as the land wages war on itself, seeking the answer. I knew that war. That war between what you should become, and what you could become. I looked at this place and saw my unfinished soul. I looked at this place and knew, for me that war was over. I know what I am now. I'm a cowboy. It seems the farther we get from civilization, the more of its rules we leave behind. Its traditions. Its inhibitions. The farther west we travel, the more those rules and customs become a burden.
album: "This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About" (1996)
MODEST MOUSE
"Space Travel Is Boring"
Won herself a pass to some far off moon
It was second class but what's to lose
And looking out her window she could more than assume
That you can't see air or time
She's the only rocketeer in the whole damn place
They gave her a mirror so she could talk to a face
She still got plenty lonely but that's just the case
With time, time, time
Started hearing voices sometime in June
She knew she could go crazy but didn't think that soon
Now she doesn't feel lonely but she'd just as soon
Try, try, try try
Man shot to the moon
I read a paperback and want to come home soon
I'm shot to the moon
Been there a half an hour, I want to come home soon
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-19/news/mn-47456_1_draw-blood
Los Angeles Times
7 Astronauts Fly High in Orbit, Draw Blood in Name of Science
October 19, 1993 From Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Columbia and its seven astronauts blasted off on a belated mission Monday, carrying 48 rats, that will be poked, prodded and in some cases decapitated by guillotine and dissected in orbit.
All in the name of science.
The Tomorrow War (2021)
(from internet transcript)
Dan Forester: I'm still your dad.
Colonel Muri Forester: You know, I used to want to be like you. I wanted to be you. I believed in you when nobody else did.
1883
"River"
TV-series season 1 episode 3
(from internet transcript)
How'd our baby girl do?
Our baby girl's turning into a woman.
I know it.
She rides good. No fear. But not reckless. She rides like you.
https://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/august/goddard/nasa-invites-children-and-families-to-learn-about-the-lunar-laser-communication/
NASA
August 9, 2013
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
RELEASE 13-037
NASA Invites Children and Families to Learn about the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md., will host this month's Sunday Experiment on Aug. 18 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT. It's a free afternoon for elementary school-aged children and their families with a look at how NASA sends and receives its data.
Chicago Tribune
Navy Rises To Occasion In Duel At Sea
April 19, 1988 By David Evans, Chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than 40 years, enemy warships have seriously challenged the U.S. Navy at sea. The Navy won - decisively.
From 6/3/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) To 8/18/2013 ( ) is 9207 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: 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 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 2/22/1956 ( Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of USA: Statement by the President Announcing Determination To Make Uranium Available for Peaceful Uses ) To 12/8/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) is 17456 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/2013 ( ) is 17456 days
From 9/6/1955 ( premiere US TV series "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"::series premiere episode "Wyatt Earp Becomes a Marshal" ) To 8/18/2013 ( ) is 21166 days
21166 = 10583 + 10583
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/24/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 10583 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 8/18/2013 ( ) is 6625 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/23/1983 ( premiere US TV series episode "Falcon Crest"::"No Trespassing" ) is 6625 days
From 9/13/1947 ( premiere US film "So You Want to Be a Salesman" ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 17456 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/2013 ( ) is 17456 days
From 3/15/1959 ( premiere US film "Mustang!" ) To 8/18/2013 ( ) is 19880 days
19880 = 9940 + 9940
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 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 in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 9940 days
https://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/august/goddard/nasa-invites-children-and-families-to-learn-about-the-lunar-laser-communication/
NASA
August 9, 2013
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
RELEASE 13-037
NASA Invites Children and Families to Learn about the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md., will host this month's Sunday Experiment on Aug. 18 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT. It's a free afternoon for elementary school-aged children and their families with a look at how NASA sends and receives its data.
Participants will learn about the electromagnetic spectrum, the communication cycle, and the engineering work NASA does to overcome the challenges to communicating in space.
This month’s Sunday Experiment will explore NASA’s Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration. LLCD, launching aboard the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer on Sept. 6 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., will take the next step in creating a high-performance space-based laser communications system. NASA currently uses radio waves to transmit its data. To continue to enable increased observation capabilities aboard satellites, transmitting data over greater distances, with a corresponding increase in data downlink rate and data volume, NASA is demonstrating two-way high-rate laser communications via LLCD.
Planned hands-on activities to be featured this month include building a string-can telephone to help demonstrate the communication cycle, a laser-pointing activity to demonstrate the complications NASA must overcome to shoot lasers back from the moon (238,900 miles away), and learning how to tune-in to the correct frequency with the electromagnetic spectrum.
The Sunday Experiment, usually held the third Sunday of each month from Sept. through May, with some exceptions, spotlights Goddard's world-renowned science and engineering research and technological developments. Families leave inspired by the activities, wowed by the scientists and engineers, and excited about Goddard's revolutionary research and technology. In addition to celebrating all things science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the Sunday Experiment celebrates major science missions that are managed by Goddard and set to launch in the near future.
For more information on Sunday Experiment, visit Goddard's Visitor Center webpage:
http://visitorcenterevents.gsfc.nasa.gov/
For more information about the LLCD mission and how NASA will use lasers for future communications please visit:
http://llcd.gsfc.nasa.gov
For more information and directions to the NASA Goddard Visitor's Center, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/home/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/directions/index.html
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/12/2006 11:27 AM
Was I part of the group that is known as Delta Force? That would make sense.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: October 5, 2006
10/5/2006 7:11 PM
Back in May, I was writing about how I sensed that I had served in two different branches of the service. I assumed that I had been in the Navy and the Marines. This morning, I realized that must have been my sense of being in the Navy and also the space program. Then I realized those thoughts may actually represent that I worked with Delta Force
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0575977/
IMDb
Falcon Crest
No Trespassing
Episode aired Dec 23, 1983
S3 E13
Top cast
Jane Wyman as Angela Channing
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 12/23/06 1:21 PM
I might have maintained a dual-status as an active member of the U.S. Marshals. That would make sense.
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
Man: Who chooses the three, you?
Boomer: No one chooses. No one. Lottery. Everyone gets a number. Put the numbers in a box, take out three. That's it, no arguing, no appeal.
Helo: And I will shoot the first person who tries to board before then.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:25:22 PM
Subject: Re: Star Trek: TNG: First Contact, Nov. 22, 1996
I have been wondering if anything I remember about the past is real. Do I have a different past? Am I really who I think I am? The stuff I imagine happening to me sometimes, did that stuff really happen?
by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 7:25 AM Tuesday, June 14, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustang_(military_officer)
Mustang (military officer)
A Mustang is United States Military slang for a commissioned officer who began his or her career as an enlisted service member. Mustangs are older and more experienced than their peers-in-grade who earned their commissions from one of the service academies (such as the United States Military Academy, United States Air Force Academy, or United States Naval Academy), Officer Candidate School, or the Reserve Officer Training Corps. During the Vietnam War, however, when some Army warrant officer pilots were offered a direct commission to 2nd or 1st Lieutenant, they were usually younger than 25 at the time of commission.
A United States Navy mustang can be a Chief Warrant Officer, a Limited Duty Officer, a Staff Officer, a Restricted Line Officer or an Unrestricted Line Officer, depending on their particular situation.
The original definition of a mustang was a military officer who had earned a battlefield commission; they were especially prevalent during World War II and the Korean War. Such notables include Audie Murphy (World War II) and David Hackworth (Korean War).
A mustang is currently defined[citation needed] by a continuity in military service from enlisted to officer (i.e., no break in military service). Being a slang term, there is no precise definition or set of criteria to determine which officers can properly be called a "mustang"; however, generally accepted as mustangs are those who earned a Good Conduct Medal
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:52 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: as of a drama
[ Stephen Crane writes: ] In regard to his companions his mind wavered between two opinions, according to his mood. Sometimes he inclined to believing them all heroes. In fact, he usually admired in secret the superior development of the higher qualities in others. He could conceive of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind. Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured him that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking.
His emotions made him feel strange in the presence of men who talked excitedly of a prospective battle as of a drama they were about to witness, with nothing but eagerness and curiosity apparent in their faces. It was often that he suspected them to be liars.
He did not pass such thoughts without severe condemnation of himself. He dinned reproaches at times. He was convicted by himself of many shameful crimes against the gods of traditions.
In his great anxiety his heart was continually clamoring at what he considered the intolerable slowness of the generals. They seemed content to perch tranquilly on the river bank, and leave him bowed down by the weight of a great problem. He wanted it settled forthwith. He could not long bear such a load, he said. Sometimes his anger at the commanders reached an acute stage, and he grumbled about the camp like a veteran.
http://www.online-literature.com/view.php/redbadge/2
From 3/16/1951 ( premiere US film "The Red Badge of Courage" ) To 6/29/2003 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/25/1991 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 4/25/1957 ( premiere US TV series episode "Lux Video Theatre"::"The Man Who Played God" ) To 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground 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 13753 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/29/2003 is 13753 days
From 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) To 6/29/2003 is 2163 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/5/1971 ( premiere US TV series episode "Marcus Welby, M.D."::"I Can Hardly Tell You Apart" ) is 2163 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 ) To 6/29/2003 is 4488 days
4488 = 2244 + 2244
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/25/1971 ( George W. Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 2244 days
IRONMAN official
NEWS
June 27th 2003
expected to lead the way at the inaugural Ironman USA Coeur d’Alene triathlon taking place on Sunday, June 29, 2003.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043961/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Release Info
USA 16 March 1951
Full Cast & Crew
Audie Murphy ... The Youth
http://www.online-literature.com/crane/redbadge
THE LITERATURE NETWORK
Literature Network » Stephen Crane » The Red Badge of Courage » Chapter 9
Chapter 9
The youth fell back in the procession until the tattered soldier was not in sight. Then he started to walk on with the others.
But he was amid wounds. The mob of men was bleeding. Because of the tattered soldier's question he now felt that his shame could be viewed. He was continually casting sidelong glances to see if the men were contemplating the letters of guilt he felt burned into his brow.
At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:02 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 25, 2006, Supplemental
Kerry Burgess wrote:
to my apparently artificial birthday:
?datediff("d", #3/3/59
March 3, 1959 and my November 2, 1965 birthday.
http://www.online-literature.com/crane/redbadge/8
THE LITERATURE NETWORK
Literature Network » Stephen Crane » The Red Badge of Courage » Chapter 8
Chapter 8
There was a tattered man, fouled with dust, blood and powder stain from hair to shoes, who trudged quietly at the youth's side. He was listening with eagerness and much humility to the lurid descriptions of a bearded sergeant. His lean features wore an expression of awe and admiration. He was like a listener in a country store to wondrous tales told among the sugar barrels. He eyed the story-teller with unspeakable wonder. His mouth was agape in yokel fashion.
The sergeant, taking note of this, gave pause to his elaborate history while he administered a sardonic comment. "Be keerful, honey, you 'll be a-ketchin' flies," he said.
The tattered man shrank back abashed.
After a time he began to sidle near to the youth, and in a diffident way try to make him a friend. His voice was gentle as a girl's voice and his eyes were pleading. The youth saw with surprise that the soldier had two wounds, one in the head, bound with a blood-soaked rag, and the other in the arm, making that member dangle like a broken bough.
After they had walked together for some time the tattered man mustered sufficient courage to speak. "Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?" he timidly said. The youth, deep in thought, glanced up at the bloody and grim figure with its lamblike eyes. "What?"
"Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?"
"Yes," said the youth shortly. He quickened his pace.
But the other hobbled industriously after him. There was an air of apology in his manner, but he evidently thought that he needed only to talk for a time, and the youth would perceive that he was a good fellow.
"Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?" he began in a small voice, and the he achieved the fortitude to continue. "Dern me if I ever see fellers fight so. Laws, how they did fight! I knowed th' boys 'd like it when they onct got square at it. Th' boys ain't had no fair chanct up t' now, but this time they showed what they was. I knowed it 'd turn out this way. Yeh can't lick them boys. No, sir! They 're fighters, they be."
He breathed a deep breath of humble admiration. He had looked at the youth for encouragement several times. He received none, but gradually he seemed to get absorbed in his subject.
"I was talkin' 'cross pickets with a boy from Georgie, onct, an' that boy, he ses, 'Your fellers 'll all run like hell when they onct hearn a gun,' he ses. 'Mebbe they will,' I ses, 'but I don't b'lieve none of it,' I ses; 'an' b'jiminey,' I ses back t' 'um, 'mebbe your fellers 'll all run like hell when they onct hearn a gun,' I ses. He larfed. Well, they didn't run t' day, did they, hey? No, sir! They fit, an' fit, an' fit."
His homely face was suffused with a light of love for the army which was to him all things beautiful and powerful.
After a time he turned to the youth. "Where yeh hit, ol' boy?" he asked in a brotherly tone.
The youth felt instant panic at this question, although at first its full import was not borne in upon him.
"What?" he asked.
"Where yeh hit?" repeated the tattered man.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 8:35 PM
To: Nancy Pelosi
Subject: Fw: Sleep journal 5/13/06
I wasn't writing very much as this point about my new thoughts, although I did start writing a lot in my journal about it around this time. I think back and I was primarily puzzling over my memories of the places I "remembered" that I used to live. I think it was actually Wexford Drive that got me thinking that my memories were completely false. I started searching on the internet for something about Wexford and I found something right away and even before I began reading about John Barry, I knew that the detail about Wexford was going to have some profound meaning to me. I also think there is some part of my true identity that is very bored and has been locked into a room with only a small window to try to yell through. The people who locked me in there are at least now standing outside the door and listening to me as best they can but I don't understand why they won't let me out.
http://www.tv.com/shows/wayward-pines/where-paradise-is-home-3076477/trivia/
Wayward Pines
Season 1 Episode 1
Where Paradise is Home
Aired May 14, 2015 on FOX
Quotes
Pam: Mr. Burke? I know you can hear me. Since you are my very favorite new patient, I'll make you a deal. Be a good sport, come on out. I'll give you a present. The present is anesthesia for your surgery, Mr. Burke. I hope you understand that the sedative I gave you upstairs will render you unconscious... any moment now. If you don't come out and surrender, I promise you won't roll into surgery right away. You'll wake up on the operating table, but you won't be able to move. And this is because of the monster dose of suxamethonium I'll have administered. The only movement you'll be capable of is blinking. The surgery will take hours, and you'll be awake, alive, and alert for every agonizing second. I know you can hear me, Mr. Burke, because I'm standing outside the room where you are hiding, hiding in a corner, hoping I'll walk blindly past.
by me, Kerry Burgess - 27 February 2015
Among the myriad sleeping dreams I tossed and turned through trying to sleep last night was one that stayed with me through the night, seeming to resurface more than once as I tried to sleep. From the perspective of my eyes, I saw myself hit the ground among a large group of people. Then I was butchering them after they attacked me. One after another I killed with it all starting with me seeing a large procession of the enemy and I was screaming "I *am* the stargate!"
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 1:40 PM Pacific-time USA Tuesday 02/15/2022
