“I never moved into combat without having the feeling of a cold hand reaching into my guts and twisting them both into knots.”
Audie Murphy, most decorated American soldier of World War II
Something for the weekend. A section of a speech of Ronald Reagan from 1964, known in Reagan lore as The Speech, set to the song Arrival to Earth. The weather is quite nice around where I live this Memorial Day weekend and it is easy to forget why we have this three day weekend, and, indeed, to forget why we have our freedom. The video is a nice reminder. (more…)