Well I see that there has not been a quote of the day in a long time.
This is from an episode of a tele series called Quantum Leap that I just saw: Episode Description:
Quote:
September 9, 1959: Rock 'n' roll is about to become big, but not in Peoria. That is, unless Sam, as DJ Howlin' Chick Howell, can manage to keep the radio station where he's employed from being shut down by overly conservative town elders.
As angry citizens are trying to break down the radio station door to stop them from playing the rock 'n' roll music the DJ speaks this, and the mob is quelled.
Quote:
"I'd like to read you something we found in our news files dates August 16, 1945, the day after the Japanese surrendered and World War 2 ended,
"The guns are silent now and so are many of the men whose hands once held them.
Never again will they see their wives or mothers.
Never again will they hear their children laugh.
And never again will they smell the sweet scents of home.
And for what?
For what did these husbands and fathers, these brothers and sons, give their lives so many thousands of miles from home?
I say it was for one word, and that word is freedom. The freedom to pray. To write. To speak. To feel. To be. As we see fit, and not as others would dictate to us.
To this freedom, which has been so dearly bought for us, it is up to us, the living, to dedicate our lives and our futures... to its eternal protection."
These words were written by Frederick Beeman, the editor of the Peoria Dispatch. And I sincerely hope that Mr. Beeman would see it in his heart that all we are looking for here is... a little freedom, too"
The station continued playing the music, and the mob danced to it.
That's the quote of the day for Tuesday, May 06, 2008. :wink:
