if you wanted to go to harvard or yale, you had to be at the top of your class. they demanded greatness from their students. if you wanted to walk the runway at fashion shows and have your face placerred on magazines and billboards, you had to be in tip top shape. stunning enough to make somebody stop in their track. if you wanted to run nasa, ibm or exxon you had to be the best in the business. they demanded greatness from their employees and that demand formed generations of excellence. the weak were weeded out. the strong were rewarded with money and status and a sense of fulfillment. our society doesn t have standards anymore. everybody gets a trophy. you re not allowed to judge anybody. nothing s taboo. the people we revered yesterday are despised today. weakness is rewarded and strength is punished. we traded excellence and achievement for diversity and inclusion. it s happening all across the country. in new york, the nypd s neutering the physical fitness test. they ar
joked out communism in korea a crawled through the jungles in vietnam and battled in the hot sands in the middle east. greatness was everywhere in america because greatness was rewarded. if you wanted to go to harvard or yale, you had to be at the top of your class. they demanded greatness from their students. if you wanted to walk the runway at fashion shows and have your face plastered on magazines and billboards you had to be in at this point top shave. not enough to make somebody stop in their track. if you wanted to run nasa, ibm or exxon you had to be the best in the business. they demanded greatness from their employees and that demand formed generations of excellence. the weak were weeded out. the strong were rewarded with money and status and a sense of fulfillment in our society doesn t have standards anymore. everybody gets a trophy. not allowed to judge anybody. nothing is taboo. the people we revered yesterday are despised today. weakness is rewarded and strength
if you wanted to go to harvard or yale, you had to be at the top of your class. they demanded greatness from their students. if you wanted to walk the runway at fashion shows and have your face placerred on magazines and billboards, you had to be in tip top shape. stunning enough to make somebody stop in their track. if you wanted to run nasa, ibm or exxon you had to be the best in the business. they demanded greatness from their employees and that demand formed generations of excellence. the weak were weeded out. the strong were rewarded with money and status and a sense of fulfillment. our society doesn t have standards anymore. everybody gets a trophy. you re not allowed to judge anybody. nothing s taboo. the people we revered yesterday are despised today. weakness is rewarded and strength is punished. we traded excellence and achievement for diversity and inclusion. it s happening all across the
joked out communism in korea a crawled through the jungles in vietnam and battled in the hot sands in the middle east. greatness was everywhere in america because greatness was rewarded. if you wanted to go to harvard or yale, you had to be at the top of your class. they demanded greatness from their students. if you wanted to walk the runway at fashion shows and have your face plastered on magazines and billboards you had to be in at this point top shave. not enough to make somebody stop in their track. if you wanted to run nasa, ibm or exxon you had to be the best in the business. they demanded greatness from their employees and that demand formed generations of excellence. the weak were weeded out. the strong were rewarded with money and status and a sense of fulfillment in our society doesn t have standards anymore. everybody gets a trophy. not allowed to judge anybody.
lift-off of the 25th space shuttle mission and it has cleared the tower. all the communications between the shuttle and mission control indicated everything was going fine. there was a sense of relief that the much delayed flight was finally under way. engines at 65%. three engines running normally. three good fuel cells, three good apus. engines throttling up. challenger go with throttle up. it happened just over one minute into flight. velocity 2900 feet per second. altitude 9 nautical miles. all seven people aboard challenger died that day including a teacher from new hampshire who would have been the first civilian in space. on february 1st, 2003 the space shuttle columbia broke up as it returned to earth, also killing all seven people on board. nasa suspended space shuttle flights for two years as it investigated the tragedy.