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- Than that today.

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And I'm sure that's gotta
be a tough thing to do,

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to get people to pay attention to that.

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Most people would rather just ignore it

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and put their head in the
sand, but it's happened before,

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we know it's happened before on Earth

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and we know it's gonna happen again,

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it's just a matter of time.

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So, my hat's off to you, for taking on

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this very worthy cause, and best of luck

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trying to get as much visibility
with that as possible.

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Now, by far the coolest thing of all,

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that wraps up this whole day together,

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is that you're one of
us, or we're one of you.

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However you wanna look at it.

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The fact that, you know, in
the late 50's, early 60's,

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you were a card-carrying
member of the 101st,

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Mass. Air National Guard,

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Masshole, like the rest of us,
(audience chuckling)

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is awesome to do that.

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And you know it's, we talk about

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when the F-86s flew out at
Logan for many, many times.

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To actually see a bit of that history

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to our flesh is outstanding.

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Now late last night I get
a text from Chris Hurley,

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and he goes, "Oh yeah by
the way, Bernie Suszinski,

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"former Crew Chief, is
also gonna be there."

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And I went, "Holy cow.

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"There's two people
that worked on this jet

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"that we talk about all the time."

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The deployment out to Fallsburg.

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We're always mentioning that

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but to actually see the
people who were there

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makes it 10 times better,

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and I hope the entire
wing appreciates that.

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Bernie was with us for many, many years

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and he saw all the different
aircraft transitions

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in aircraft maintenance, and
he knows all of you guys.

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So it's outstanding that you
and Pam were able to be here

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and your name is going to
be on the opposite side

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for the rest of eternity as well.

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So one last thing is, you know the.

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One of the claims to fame
for this unit is that

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we've got the oldest continuous-use
Air Force patch ever.

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This is the oldest, it's not
the, definitely the oldest one,

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but the oldest in continuous use.

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And it is a, (Velcro tearing)

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take it off my headquarters patch,

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I'm in the 102nd again today,
(audience chuckling)

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and the 101st.

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We've kept this legacy goin'.

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We know we don't have any jets anymore

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but the first thing we did is
we gotta keep the 101st patch

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and it's right now 101st intel squadron,

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the primary combat arm of this wing.

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And this combat arm is truly combat;

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they're rollin' up bad guys
on a daily basis, okay?

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So this patch will live on forever.

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And the other cool thing is

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the maintenance part of the intel unit

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adopted the shamrock patch,

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and they brought it back officially.

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This is one of their morale patches,

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but we have an official shamrock patch

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that all the maintainers wear on there,

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so we, you know, keep
the legacy goin' forever.

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And I just wanted to
share that with you guys.

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But that's pretty much it.

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Thank you all for listening to me.

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Thank you Jennifer, this is a great honor

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to be able to be back here for awhile,

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and really cool to see everybody here.

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Like I said, I wish I could
hang out with you all day long

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but I've gotta go, and I have
to introduce our next speaker,

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our own Rusty Schweickart,
and a true American hero.

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Please welcome Rusty Schweickart.

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(audience applauding)

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- Well it's a great
pleasure to be here today,

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I'll tell you that.

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It was a terrific surprise.

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I'd like to thank not just General LeFavor

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but also Colonel Gaglio
and everyone else who,

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part of the historical,
or the legacy committee,

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or any way you contributed

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to bring in my dear wife
Nancy Ramsey and I here today.

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And if you haven't met Nancy,

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she's sittin' here in the front row

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and I invite you to say
hello to her afterward.

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It's really great to, not just to be here

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and see some of the old
farts that I used to

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(audience chuckling)
fly this airplane with.

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But to exchange, I mean,
one of the greatest parts

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about seeing guys that you
used to fly around with

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is that there's no intimidation, you know.

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We see each other and
immediately, you know, Bobby Faux.

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He's not Foxy or anything
like that; it's just old Bob.

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(audience chuckling)

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Al Mundo.

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Everyone else who's come
here, George Bravitz,

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and all the other guys
who flew with us, Boucher,

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and all the other guys who flew with us

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who couldn't be here today.

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Being here and lookin'
at that F-86 behind me

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reminds me of those days;

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not just out of Logan, but also Fallsburg.

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But I wanted to make a few
comments today about life,

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both the personal element
of it, our own lives,

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but also life in general,
and give you some things

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to be thinkin' about in this year.

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Most of us, you know, see
life as something that we're

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somewhat in control of anyway.

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We tend to think about
the cause and effect

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and we do things and there
are results out of that.

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Life becomes a story.

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But I tend to buy into the idea

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that the great science fiction
writer Ursula Le Guin had

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was that life is really a series
of accidents, by and large,

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out of which we human
beings create a story.

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We tend to, in fact, part
of her theory was that

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in fact life, part of human life,

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was the creation of stories out
of relatively random events.

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And certainly when I look back on my life

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and especially the reasons
why I am here today,

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this F-86 and the Mass. Air Guard,

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parts of it, you know most
of that was accidental

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when I think about it.

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Anything that you, in
your life, before today

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did 10, 20 years ago,
especially even further back,

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if you hadn't done it you
wouldn't be here today.

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My life, before I got into
the Mass. Air Guard in 1960,

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I guess it was when I
came out of active duty

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in the Air Force flying
F-100s in the Philippines.

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I had three kids to support at that time

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in addition to going into
graduate school at MIT,

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and in order to support those three kids,

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I'm not gonna tell it
to them, but, you know,

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there's accident involved in some of that.

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(audience laughing)

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And I'm sure some of you
may be accidents, you know.

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(audience laughing)
That's life.

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That's part of what I'm talkin' about.

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But, you know, all of the
things that happened beforehand.

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In addition to having a very large family

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at a very young age, and I
had to get, like, three jobs

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to see my way through
MIT and keep it goin'.

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But if it had not been for the
Mass. Air Guard and the F-86

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I wouldn't have become an astronaut.

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I would guess, although
I don't know it for sure,

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if it hadn't been for, you
know, people like Al Mundo

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and Bobby Faux, and Bill Shea
out here, George Parabas,

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I probably wouldn't be an astronaut.

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I hate to give them any credit
for that, but, you know,

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(audience laughing)
it's probably due.

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We think we're in charge.

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We think that these things
make a logical sense.

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If it hadn't been for Mr. Khrushchev

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putting up the Berlin Wall,

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we wouldn't have deployed to Fallsburg.

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We wouldn't have gone off to Germany.

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If it hadn't been for the
fact that John Kennedy

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was the President the
time, the Mass. Air Guard

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probably wouldn't have been activated.

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Those things are all a part of what

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preceded me becoming an
astronaut, and I would never,

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that would never have
happened had it not been

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for those random things happening.

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But today we, people like Tim
and others make a history,

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and that history starts on the left,

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moves across the page to the right,

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all make sense as if it
was planned ahead of time.

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Probably not, maybe not,
maybe it was, who knows.

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In addition to the F-86,
the reason I'm here

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is because I was an Apollo astronaut,

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and as General LeFavor said, you know,

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things were very different
back in those days.

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Apollo was incredible.

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I mean, John Kennedy in '61-'62 says

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we're gonna go to the Moon
and bring people back alive

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from the Moon before
the end of the decade,

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and damned if we didn't do that.

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Now let me tell you, there were
a lot of accidents involved,

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on the plus side, that
enabled that to happen.

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There were a few on the
negative side that we had to

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overcome in the process
of making that happen.

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I was privileged, incredibly privileged,

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to be able to take part in that process.

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At the end of last year,

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knowing that there would
be events like this,

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I didn't know that I
would be here from Gaglio,

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but thank Heaven I am here,
I really appreciate it.

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But knowing that there would
be this 50th anniversary

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of Apollo celebrated, I got
thinking to myself, you know:

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What do I wanna, what do I wanna say about

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a 50th anniversary of an
incredibly historic event

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that was pretty significant
when you think about it.

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Most people don't think
that much about it.

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Break break.

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Gonna make an offhand comment here

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because I haven't made it so far.

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We seldom give any recognition
to an amazing partnership

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that has enabled most of what we see today

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going on around us,
the lives that we live.

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It's almost a silent partnership.

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We live with it day by day
without thinking about it.

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We suffer, we bitch and
moan about it, in fact,

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and that is this incredible partnership

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between humanity, humankind, and machines.

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We've created machines
all through human history

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which have enabled humanity to go beyond

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what we could without those machines.

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This machine behind me, amazing.

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By the way, General, the best
fighter plane ever built.

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(audience chuckling)
Ask any of those old guys

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I just mentioned.

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But our partnership with machines

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is a unique human capability.

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Now we might have picked up, you know,

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a little of a hint from some
monkeys that preceded us

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that used a stick to dig termites out,

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or who knows what they did, but, you know,

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we created a real
partnership with machines

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which have allowed us
to do amazing things.

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We don't really know what
life elsewhere in the universe

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looks like, so we don't know
what the parallel to that is,

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but I suspect that part of
life wherever it may exist,

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of necessity, involves
intelligence and self-awareness

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creating tools and
machines which enable it

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to do things that it
could not otherwise do.

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And as I say, we're all very
much wrapped up in this.

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Every one of you has got, in your pocket

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or your purse or whatever,

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I got one right there.

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This thing has, I have no idea,

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(audience chuckling)
somewhere between

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a thousand and a million
times the capability that got

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me and my buddies up into
space and to the Moon and back.

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We take it for granted.

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But it got me thinking, that idea,

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I'll go back to my main point
now, that idea as a tribute

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that we seldom acknowledge,
is something that I felt

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I wanted to bring to people's attention.

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Let me shift back a little bit
to life, but when I say life

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I'm talking about the whole
process of evolution and

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intelligence, the emergence
of life into the universe.

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We don't really think about it

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but if you read carefully,
people who do think

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about cosmology, astrophysics.

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People today at the edge, at
the frontier of investigating

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the evolution from the Big
Bang all the way through

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the 13.7 billion years that lead to today,

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believe, certainly whether they have

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direct evidence for it or not,

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that life is a natural outcome of the

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fundamental structure and
organization of the universe.

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If you go back to the Big
Bang it started with quarks;

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extremely hot, extremely dense,

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and as things expanded
and got cooler, you know,

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those quarks and things got together

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and formed nuclear particles.

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Atomic particles following on from that.

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And eventually things cooled off enough

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that atoms got together to form molecules.

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Somewhere in that transition
into molecular from atomic,

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you know, we introduced chemistry

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in that evolutionary process,

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and eons later out of
chemistry comes a transition

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which we have no clue
today how that happened,

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and that is the evolution
from chemistry into biology.

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And with biology came some
very fascinating realities.

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Survival instinct, instinct
of any kind for that matter.

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But the fundamental recognition that

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driving all of life
that we know of is this

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tendency to do whatever it
takes to survive, to expand,

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to go beyond, and that's
where, out of intelligence

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and humanity, as we evolved
out of that life process,

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we invent machines that
enable us to go beyond.

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And of all people here in
this particular gathering,

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here I am telling you that, you know,

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we've gone out and landed on the Moon.

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I look back at Apollo on this
50th anniversary celebration

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and I look in particular to Apollo 8.

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The guys have preceded
me, by the way, General,

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it was the third mission, but that's okay,

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you were close; fourth.

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(audience chuckling)

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Ha ha, sorry about that General, but I.

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(audience laughing)

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Apollo 8 was the crew;
Frank Borman, Jim Lovell,

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and Bill Anders, all very
good friends of mine,

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who went out to the Moon
at Christmas in 1968.,

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read from the Bible, it
was a memorable flight.

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But the most memorable
thing about it for me

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was the fact that they
got there, went into orbit

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around the Moon, not
just around it and back,

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but they went into orbit.

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They were looking at the craters
on the surface of the Moon

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to get any kind of information
and intelligence they could

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about the subsequent
landing, that would help

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on the landing to come a
couple of missions later.

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They were flying pointed straight down

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as they went around the Moon,

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and they were actually going backwards

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so that they would see
the craters come out

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from under the nose of the spacecraft

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and disappear over the far horizon.

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They did that for three orbits
around the Moon, six hours,

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and then for some reason
that I don't know,

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and I don't know if he knows,

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but Frank Borman rolled the spacecraft

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so that they were goin'
forward, same attitude

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but they were going forward then.

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Craters were comin' from
the far horizon toward them.

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The same thing.

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Crater upon crater upon crater.

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Shades of gray, lookin' up at stars

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and a very, very black universe.

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And all of a sudden, shockingly,

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I mean literally it was a shock to them,

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when up over the horizon came the Earth.

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Beautiful blue and white, colorful,

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and suddenly for the first time in history

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humanity realized what it was all about.

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We are the creation of the universe

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here in this small corner of
the universe that we occupy,

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and we're the only life that
we know about, for that matter,

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in the universe, but certainly here

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in our little corner of the universe.

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And they, with their own
eyes, saw that beautiful Earth

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and recognized the Earth as Mother Earth,

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and we, humanity, intelligence, life,

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being born out of that non-human mother,

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but Gaia, Mother Earth.

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And I look back at that,
and as far as I'm concerned

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that was the moment of
what I call Cosmic Birth.

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That was the moment that life
first moved out of the mother.

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That was the moment
where, as in human life,

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there forms a two-way relationship.

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No longer a fetus being
supported by the mother

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but now a life independent of the mother.

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The development of love, and think about

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the environmental movement
that started at that time.

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Think about the whole birthing process

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of the fetus demanding more
and more energy and material

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to support its growth,
creating more and more waste,

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and the mother having to process it.

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There are good analogies there.

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We adopt them in our whole
environmental process.

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But love has become now a two-way process,

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and the next thing that follows
on that love relationship

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that we have now with the
planet is responsibility.

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We all assume in our own way

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some responsibility for our mothers,

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and fathers for that matter,
but they don't count much.

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(audience chuckling)

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And here we are celebrating
50 years of human eyes

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first seeing and recognizing
and, to some extent,

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still in the process of acknowledging

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that responsibility which is intrinsic

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in the understanding
that we are the only life

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in our corner of the universe,
and this evolutionary process

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in which we're a part will continue.

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And we now, with the power that we have;

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ourselves, our brains, the
machines that we create,

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are responsible for the
continued evolution of life

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out of Mother Earth.

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That's what Apollo was all about.

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It wasn't Rusty Schweickart
or Neil Armstrong

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or anybody else; it
wasn't Apollo 9 mission

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or the Apollo 11 mission.

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It was that moment in time
that will be remembered

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10,000 years from now,
100,000 years from now.

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With a little bit of luck
and responsibility lived,

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we're going to see that there is life

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that we were part of here.

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This unique moment when
that life first emerged

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out of this, Mother Earth,
this beautiful Earth

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that we celebrate here today.

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And that is what we should
be celebrating today

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on the 50th anniversary of Apollo,

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and I appreciate being here
to suggest that to you,

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to charge you with
whatever you've got to do

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to see that that continues
so your children,

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grandchildren, great-grandchildren,

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that is the process of
evolution we're all a part of

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and what we celebrate
today, and if it were not

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for that airplane behind
me and the Mass. Air Guard

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and the 101st and the 102nd,
and the whatever, you know,

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I wouldn't be here to
celebrate it with you,

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but thank you very much for inviting me

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and I really appreciate it.

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Thank you.
(audience applauding)

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- Thank you Captain Schweickart.

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Would you and Chief
Master Sargent Suszinski

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please join General
LeFavor and Colonel Gaglio

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at the front of the
aircraft for the unveiling.

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(participants chatting
away from microphone)

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- [Woman] Ready?

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- [Organizers] Three, two, one.

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(audience applauding)

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(audience applauding)

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(participants chatting
away from microphone)

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- [Host] Ladies and gentlemen,

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Colonel Gaglio will now
make a special presentation

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to Captain Schweickart and
Chief Master Sergeant Suszinski

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on behalf of the men and women

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of the 102nd Intelligence Wing.

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(participants chatting
away from microphone)

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- Well that's awesome.

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Thank you very much.

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- Thank you.
(audience applauding)

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- [Host] In keeping
with Air Force tradition

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we ask that you please rise
as we close today's ceremony

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with the playing of the Air Force song,

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followed by the departure
of the official party.

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("The Air Force Song")

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♪ Off we go into the wild blue yonder ♪

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♪ Climbing high into the sun ♪

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♪ Here they come zooming
to meet our thunder ♪

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♪ At 'em, boys, give 'er
the gun, give 'er the gun ♪

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♪ Down we dive, spouting
our flame from under ♪

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♪ Off with one helluva roar ♪

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♪ We live in fame or
go down in flame, hey ♪

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♪ Nothing'll stop the U.S. Air Force! ♪

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- [Host] Ladies and gentlemen,

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this concludes today's ceremony.

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Again, on behalf of the men and women

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of the 102nd Intelligence Wing,

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we'd like to thank all of
you for joining us today.

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Drive safe and have a great
Air National Guard Day.

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(audience applauding)

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(participants chatting
away from microphone)