[ applause ]. Its been a wild and wily couple of days. A lot of history packed into a very sort period of time. So i want to begin today as i did yesterday with a quote but in introduction to that quote, i want to ask anyone in here not see saving private ryan, anyone not see it . Tast ki thats kind of what i figured. For those of us that have served and particularly for those of us that have faced combat, that opening scene is something that youll never forget, ever, i hope you never forget it, but the scene most important to me actually came later in the movie. Tom hanks laying on the rubble called over private ryan, and he asked him to kneel down and he said to him two words, earn this. Any victory Worth Winning must be deserved and as the victories are increased scale so must be our exertions. Deserve victory, Winston Churchhill said. We shall not win through the evils in our enemy. We shall win through the merit in ourselves. Deserve victory. And let that be the touch stone of eve
And Joseph Joseph peterburs, he has a special designation with his name as well, call i mace, he did 49 missions before becoming a p. O. W. , then he became, somehow escaped animated and flew with the russian armys, incredible stuff, so with that lets give them all around the applause and again applause as. He so we will start on the end, colonel james harvey, has a special hat on i like to see it because a lot of people think of tom cruz when they see the hat, the unfortunate part though was tom cruz was not the first, shot colonel harvey is part of a top gun squadron and, a group though analysts field, took their airplanes soak their Maintenance Group and became top gun, the First Top Gun pay for the u. S. Air force law. Colonel harvey if he wanted to also little bit about yourself, what do you want people to know about your service in about your time flying combat airplanes and then becoming a top gun . Oh boy, i know its a long list. I never made any model aircraft or anything like
Anyone not see it . Thats kind of what i figured. For those of us who have served and faced combat, that opening scene is something that youll never forget. Ever. I hope you never forget it. The scene most important to me actually came later in the movie. Tom hanks laying on the rubble called over private ryan. Asked him to kneel down. And he said to him two words, earn this. Any victory Worth Winning must be deserved. And as the victories are increased in scale, so must be our deservings. We shall not win through the evils in our enemy, we shall win through the merit in ourselves. Deserve victory. Let that be the touchstone of every thought, word and deed. Frankly, i think about that pretty much every day. Am i living up to my own expectations, let alone the expectations of others . Today were going to hear from people that deserved victory and earned it. Yesterday and the day before we heard from a lot of people who fought on the ground. Were going to hear this morning from some incr
Did yesterday with a quote, but in the introduction to the quote, has anyone not seen private ryan . Anyone not seen it . Thats what i figured. For those of us that have served and particularly those of us that have faced combat that opening scene is something that youll never forget, ever, i hope you never forget it, but the scene most important to me actually came later in the movie. Tom hanks laying on the rubble called over private ryan and he asked him to kneel down, and he said to him two words, earn this. Any victory Worth Winning must be deserved, anda t as the victories are in scale so must be our exertions, deserve victory, Winston Churchill said. We shall not win through the evils in our enemy, we shall win through the merit in ourselves. Deserve victory, and let that be the touchstone of every thought, word and deed. Frankly, i think about that pretty much every day. Am i living up to my own expectations, let alone the expectations of others . Today were going to hear from
For those of us that have served , particularly those of us that have faced combat that opening scene is something that you will never forget. I hope you never forget. The scene that is most important to me came later in the movie. Tom hanks is laying on the rubble and he called over private ryan. He asked him to kneel down. He said to him to words. Earn this. Any victory Worth Winning must be deserved. As the victories are increased in scale so must be our exertion. Victory, Winston Churchill says, we shall not win through the evils in our enemy. We shall win through the merit in ourselves. Deserved victory. Let that be the touchstone of every thought, word, and deed. I think about that pretty much every day. To my ownng expectations let alone the expectations of younger others. Today we will hear from people who earned victory. Yesterday and the day before we heard from a lot of people on the ground. We will hear this morning from some incredible legends that thought and hair. It is