{"id":3668,"date":"2003-02-02T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-02T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2003\/02\/02\/"},"modified":"2003-02-02T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-02T18:49:00","slug":"3668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2003\/02\/02\/3668\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Right something that has been on my mind since yesterday. George W. Bush’s speech about the loss of Columbia. I don’t know if he wrote it himself, if he did he gained a little bit of respect. I would like to have seen it in full because I have seen it called moving and emotional in many places but he looked almost bored and certainly uncaring in the clips I saw of the first moments. I have read the full text of it (here<\/a>) and it started really well. It is a moving speech and indeed a rallying cause the language used is sad and mournful but at the same time determined and hopeful. I do intend to stream the entire thing in work tomorrow, as I really do hope that he did a good job of it. They deserved no less.<\/p>\n

However towards the end of the speech it went all religious and it was for one thing quite a big change from the tone of the speech so far. Actually I think I’m going to stop there and even apologise. Reading the MeFi thread at the moment leads me to believe I should in fact watch the speech and then perhaps I shall revisit this.<\/p>\n

I know I’ve said a lot about the subject and I suspect there will be more but I beg your indulgence for a couple of more lines.<\/p>\n

“They believed in what they were doing.”
\nBill Readdy. NASA<\/p>\n

Buzz Aldrin captured it this morning. He tried to read a poem about astronauts on television. He read these words: “As they passed from us to glory, riding fire in the sky.” And tough old Buzz, steely-eyed rocket man and veteran of the moon, began to weep.<\/i>
\nPeggy Noonan.
\nWall Street Journal Editorial Page
\nSaturday, February 1, 2003 3:38 p.m. EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right something that has been on my mind since yesterday. George W. Bush’s speech about the loss of Columbia. I don’t know if he wrote it himself, if he did he gained a little bit of respect. I would like to have seen it in full because I have seen it called moving and emotional … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}