NationStates Jolt Archive

I've been going through some great songs and scenes. Some are fictional and some are fact. Here is one of my favourite scenes from the movie "Gettysburg" where Colonel Chamberlain of the 20th Maine, the morning before a battle that will change American Hhistory, is handed over what remains of the 2nd Maine regiment who had signed up for two years but were told they had to do another one. These men were incredibly bitter about the incompetence of the Union army's high command and had served their country well but they were fed up. Colonel Chamberlain's (fictional) speech about why men were fighting this war ("To set other men free") is inspirational.
But the bit that tends to bring tears to my eyes is the simple mathematics of his introduction. "When the war began there were a thousand of us; there are fewer than three hundred now.":(

The patriot who posted it on You Tube has added a few unnecessary bits of his own but watch it an djudge it for yourself. Then feel free to post or discuss your favourite scene from a movie.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Colonel+Chamberlain&emb=0&aq=f#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkk

Any Given Sunday - Al Pacino

I still like Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

Link. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk)

Al Pacino's worked for me.

MLK's always works for me!

Here's another immortalised Martin Luther King speech where he predicts his own death:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvPZKZErEfM

He goes down fighting (in a peaceful way of course!)

And then there is Churchill's "This was their finest our". I think it is on a par with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=LsKDGM5KTBY&feature=related

I hope you all remember The Battle of Midway:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4I6RGRW50&feature=related

This was where good US intelligenge intercewpted messages of a Japanese naval task force that had set out to attack the tiny Island of Midway. Had the Japanese navy occupied it, Hawaii would have been in terrible danger. Many brave US pilots went to their deaths but the 4 Japanese aircraft carriers were put out of action

I keep trying to come up with inspirational stuff... but alas I cannot. :(

Here's the Prime Minister of Australia saying SORRY to the Australian aborigines.
Many people were crying when he made this speech:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=gi49Etpd3m4&feature=related



Rudd’s sorry speech – Get Up Australia

You Killed my father, prepare to die! (http://http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m7NR6iYjg)

Inspires me to never mess with a guy named Indigo Montoya.

Henry V - St. Crispin's Day speech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM)

Yes! We happy few!

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5f95idVQEXI&feature=related



"And when they ask us" This song from the movie. "Oh What a Lovely War" is incredibly bittersweet - sung from the perspectives of the soldiers who survived the trenches of the First World War but cannot speak of th ehorrors of it - nor of their comrades who are buried in their hundreds of thousands