For anyone who’s ever faced a personal challenge, it doesn’t get much better than the 'Six Minutes' speech in VISION QUEST. This scene wasn’t in the 1979 novel by Terry Davis. Elmo's monologue was written specifically for the film by screenwriter Darryl Ponicsan (THE LAST DETAIL, TAPS). Actor J. C. Quinn absolutely knocks it out of the park here.
If you’d like to support the @FMJDiary project, you can bid on an original poster below. I signed and inscribed it with Elmo’s iconic line: “It ain't the six minutes... it's what happens in that six minutes.”
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31 October 1973. 1st episode of the 26-part classic ITV documentary series World at War was broadcast. It was narrated by Laurence Olivier with music by Carl Davies. It cost £900,000 (worth £11 million today).
The video's claims about white men leading in absolute numbers of arrests/offenders for these crimes are partially accurate based on latest available data (2023-2024 from FBI, BJS, USSC):
- Murder: Yes, whites highest (8,842 offenders vs 6,405 Black).
- Robbery: No, Blacks often slightly higher in arrests (e.g., 2019 data).
- Rape/sexual abuse: Yes, whites ~55% of sentenced offenders.
- Domestic abuse: Unclear; rates higher for Blacks, absolute numbers not specified.
- Pedophiles/child sex offenses: Yes, whites ~55-67%.
- Drug dealers: For trafficking, no (Hispanics 44%); for general drug arrests, yes (whites ~70% in 2019).
Data varies by source; per capita rates differ.
Outnumbered at least 6 to 1, the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry suffered 82% casualties when they heroically charged headlong into enemy forces to shore up a gap in Union lines during the Battle of Gettysburg on this date in 1863.
The role these brave Minnesotans played in preserving the United States of America cannot be overstated.
General Winfield Scott Hancock said that "no soldiers on any field, in this or any other country ever displayed grander heroism," and insisted that "there is no more gallant deed recorded in history."
In a speech in Cannon Falls, MN on the Fourth of July 1928, President Calvin Coolidge said these men's heroism that day entitled them to the rank of "saviors of their country."
Think about THAT next time you see a Confederate symbol displayed on Minnesota soil.
The next day, the survivors from the 1st Minnesota helped repel Pickett's Charge and lost another 17 killed and wounded.
Minnesota is in possession of a blood-stained, bullet-pierced Virginia battle flag captured July 3rd.
Virginia has been asking for it back for over 100 years.
Governor Jesse Ventura's response at the @WhiteHouse in 2000: “Why? I mean, we won. … We took it. That makes it our heritage.”