Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace. -Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)-

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. -Bob Dylan-

Look, up in the sky: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Nope, it’s just little old me, Underdog.

Ping, ping, pinnggg! It’s ricochet rabbit!

This must be Thursday… I never could get the hang of Thursdays. -Arthur Dent, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”-

For us who wear the uniform, every day is Flag Day. We pay our honor in act and feeling and we have little need of words. -Lt. Collins, “The Sand Pebbles” (Richard McKenna)-

When the work day is going so well that you nervously wait for the catastrophe to happen. -found on Facebook-

It is said there will be no more war. We must pretend to believe that. But when war comes, it is we who will take the first shock and buy time with our lives. It is we who keep the faith. -Lt. Collins, “The Sand Pebbles” (Richard McKenna)-

America is a living structure of human lives, of all the American lives that ever were and ever will be. -Lt. Collins, “The Sand Pebbles” (Richard McKenna)-

The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character • Names that are a cross section of democracy • They fought together as brothers-in-arms. They died together and now they sleep side by side • To them we have a solemn obligation to ensure that their sacrifice will help to make a better, a safer, world in which to live. -National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific-