I liked this line: "The future doesn't belong to the faint hearted. It belongs to the brave."
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We all probably know that today is the 25th anniversary of the Space > Shuttle Challenger disaster. > > We were discussing the event with our boys, and showed them the video > of what happened. We also impressed upon them the importance of the > mission with Christa McAuliffe being the first civilian on a Shuttle > Mission. > > We also watched President Reagan's adress to the nation that night. I > had almost forgot how great of a speaker Reagan was. I was a senior in > high school when this happened and I remember crying when the > explosion happened, and again later that night with his speech. > > I know there are some on this list who do not like his politics, but, > he was a great speaker. > > Here is a link to his address that night: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JKIZ7j20EA > > There are two lines from Reagan speeches I will never forget: > > '...as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped > the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God. ' > > And > > 'Mr.Gorbachev, tear down this wall' > > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can > wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris > > http://xkcd.com/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333789 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm