True Grit

True Grit is one of my all time favorite movies. I love the show and can watch it over and over again. Here's a scene I really enjoy....

Rooster Cogburn: [cocks his gun] Mr. Rat... I have a writ here says you're to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now it's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of the same. See? Doesn't pay any attention to me.
[shoots the rat]
Chen Lee: [runs into the room] Outside is place for shooting!
Rooster Cogburn: I'm serving some papers.

I reluctantly watched the remake with Jeff Bridges as a much darker Rooster. Without going into a long explanation, I just did not enjoy the new version as well. I will probably never watch it again, so that's saying something. Whereas I try to watch the original a couple times a year. Bridges is a good actor, he's just not John Wayne. The boots were too big to fill. Long live the American Hero.

The Eagle has landed

On this day, July 20th, in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended towards the moon in a landing vehicle called the "Eagle." After a computer malfunction caused them to miss their mark by 4 miles and running low on fuel, Armstrong heroically took control and landed the vehicle manually in an unknown environment amidst ridges, craters, and jagged boulders. He uttered the often repeated phrase, "The Eagle has landed." Together, they planted a U.S flag and left behind a plaque which read....

"Here Men From the Planet Earth
First Set Foot Upon the Moon
July 1969, A.D.
We Came in Peace for All Mankind"

I am so very proud to be an American

GOD Bless America


source: The American Patriot's Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T.E. Cribb