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<DIV> I have never been adjudicated in a court of law as being "mentally
diseased". At least not yet, but there's still time. <STRONG>Author, Me</STRONG>
<BR>. <BR>."Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come
to pass in the heart of America.” <BR><STRONG>Dwight David Eisenhower.</STRONG>
Born in Denison, TX. Raised in Abilene, KS. USA . . </DIV>
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<DIV>."We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be
artists" <STRONG>Thomas Jefferson.</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>. <STRONG>Isiah 6:8</STRONG> Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
“Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And said I, “Here am I. Send me!” .
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<DIV>. <STRONG>St. Luke 23: Verse 39-43</STRONG> Now one of those robbers who
were hanged was abusing him saying: "If thou art the Christ, save thyself and
us!" But the other in answer rebuked him and said, "Dost not even thou fear God,
seeing that thou under the same sentence? And we indeed justly, for we are
receiving what our deeds deserved; but this man has done nothing wrong." And he
said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." And Jesus
said to him, "Amen I say to thee, this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.".
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<DIV>."Even a feeble minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know
what to eat, or even how to feed itself, but it knows what hunger is."
<STRONG>Daniel Keyes</STRONG>, "Flowers for Algernon". </DIV>
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<DIV>."No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed by some, to dream."
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills." Sh<STRONG>irley
Jackson, </STRONG>"The Haunting of Hill House". </DIV>
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<DIV>."Energy Accounting: Energy Balance for Closed Systems." "Fundamentals of
Engineering Thermodynamics." <STRONG>Michael J. Moran ,"Howard N. Shapiro",et.
all.</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>."Because there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and
the irrational, between good and evil. And good does not always triumph.
Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called 'The better angels of our
nature.'"<STRONG> General Corman, "</STRONG>Apocolypse Now". </DIV>
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<DIV>."And Jesus was a sailor when He walked upon the water And He spent a long
time watching from His lonely wooden tower and when He knew for certain only
drowning men could see Him He said, "All men will be sailors then Until the sea
shall free them" But He Himself was broken Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to
travel with Him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust
Him For He's touched your perfect body with his mind." <STRONG>Leonard
Cohen,</STRONG> "Suzzanne". </DIV>
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<DIV>."Helicopters are phenomenal machines. You can float in the air. You can be
like God." <STRONG>Ron Ferrizze,</STRONG> Helicopter Crew Chief, 1st Air
Calvary, November 1967, Republic of South Vietnam. </DIV>
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<DIV>."A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory." <STRONG>Leonard Nimoy.</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>."The text that comes most readily to mind is the one about living by the
sword and dying by the sword, but I don't think that it really applies-not
unless there is something far deeper in it than I can detect. I understand, of
course, that those who live by warfare are likely to die by warfare since their
thinking turns them to war, and even in peace they are at war with their
fellows. Beyond that I cannot go. I appear to have touched bottom and exhausted
the text. In any case, I doubt that when Christ uttered these words He had in
mind the as yet unwritten game laws of French Equatorial Africa, which, as
Thompkins pointed out to me, were designed not to protect animals from Man, but
to protect Man from Man. "The game laws say nothing whatever about the actions
of animals," he said. "Animals are thoroughly reliable. They do exactly what is
required of them and they never think of doing anything else. Their conduct does
have to be regulated. The lion will not kill unless he is hungry, and then he
will most certainly kill. He does not kill to expand his personality or to gloss
over flaws (true or imaginary) with which he cannot live. He kills because he
personally needs to eat." "Man," he said, does not behave as his Creator
intended him to. Therefore laws have to be laid down to govern his behavior."
<STRONG>Leonard Wibberley,</STRONG> "Meeting With a Great Beast". </DIV>
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<DIV>.Historians don't really like to deal with counterfactuals--with what might
have been. They want to talk about history. "And how the hell do you know,
McNamara, what might have been. Who knows?" "Well, I know certain things. What
I'm doing is thinking through with hindsight, but you don't have hindsight
available at the time. I'm very proud of my accomplishments. And I'm very sorry
that in the process of accomplishing things, I've made errors." Robert Strange
McNamara, in "The Fog of War" Written by <STRONG>James G. Blight & Janet
M.Lang.</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>." We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece
filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet
and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry
cellar, Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture
without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other
Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow
men The stuffed men.", <STRONG>T.S. Eliot</STRONG> "The Hollow Men". </DIV>
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<DIV>."June 10 Deterioration progressing. I have become absent-minded. Algernon
died two days ago. Dissection shows my predictions were right. His brain had
decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of cerebral
convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures. I guess
the same thing is or will soon be happening to me. Now that it's definite, I
don't want it to happen. I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in
the back yard. I cried." <STRONG>Daniel Keyes,</STRONG> "Flowers for Algernon".
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<DIV>."It's not your fault. No one asked you to suffer. That was your idea."
<STRONG>Mary Burke</STRONG> in "Bringing Out The Dead". <BR>. </DIV>
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<DIV>."At the beginning of an undertaking the enthusiasm is always greatest. And
at that time both in the Peloponnesus and in Athens there were great numbers of
young men who had never been in a war and were consequently far from unwilling
to join this one."<STRONG> Thucydides</STRONG>, "The Peloponnesian War". </DIV>
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<DIV>."Vietnam, my husband went there, didn't pick up a gun for over 30 years.
He went hunting one night and I chided him about shooting Bambi, he said I used
to shoot men for 10 cents an hour. Broke my heart." <STRONG>Author
Unknown.</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>. "Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road Time grabs you by the
wrist, directs you where to go So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time It's something unpredictable
But in the end, it's right I hope you had the time of your life So take the
photographs and still frames in your mind Hang it on a shelf in good health and
good time Tattoos of memories, and dead skin on trial For what it's worth, it
was worth all the while It's something unpredictable But in the end, it's right
I hope you had the time of your life It's something unpredictable But in the
end, it's right I hope you had the time of your life". </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>.Composers <STRONG>Billie Joe Armstrong / Frank Edwin Wright / Mike Ryan
Pritchard.Father Carl Patrick Cummings,</STRONG> said to Slovik, "Eddie, when
you get up there, say a little prayer for me." Slovik replied with his last
words: "Okay, Father, I'll pray that you don't follow me too soon". ."The
Execution of Pvt.Slovic". </DIV>
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<DIV>."No, I would not give you false hope On this strange and mournful day But
the mother and child reunion Is only a motion away Oh, little darling of mine I
can't for the life of me Remember a sadder day I know they say let it be But it
just don't work out that way And the course of a lifetime runs Over and over
again No, I would not give you false hope (no) On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion Is only a motion away Oh, little darling of
mine I just can't believe it's so Though it seems strange to say I never been
laid so low In such a mysterious way And the course of a lifetime runs Over and
over again But I would not give you false hope (no) On this strange and mournful
day When the mother and child reunion Is only a motion away" <STRONG>Paul
Simon.</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>."He broke from them and then he broke from himself. I've never seen a man
so broken up and ripped apart." <STRONG>Captain Willard,</STRONG> "Apocalypse
Now". </DIV>
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<DIV>."Those who adapt, you go there with one mindset and you adapt. You adapt
to the atrocities of war, to the killing and dying, until it doesn't bother
you.I should say it doesn't bother you as much." <STRONG>Roger Harris,</STRONG>
1st Battalion, Third Marine Division Con Thien, the Rockpile, the Market Place.
Republic of South Vietnam, January 1967. </DIV>
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<DIV>."In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons" -
<STRONG>Herodotus.</STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>. "I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in
China don't care." <STRONG>Reggie Jackson.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV> "When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat
seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really
means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand." <STRONG>Reggie
Jackson.</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>."Aw, to sleep, perchance not to dream." <STRONG>Philip Joseph
Caputo</STRONG> "A Rumor of War".“To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to
dream – ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”
(Hamlet). </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"The saddest part of life is when the person who gave you the best memories
becomes a memory." <STRONG>Author Unknown.</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>. Probably more to come, check back sometime <BR></DIV>
