He had the honor of swearing in the Army's first Muslim chaplain, who stood in a long line of firsts, first Roman Catholic, first Rabbi, first Hindu, etc., all of whom faced resistance.
(From Deerfield Beach Fire and Rescue: "May the fabric of this T-shirt represent the fabric of a nation who is forever indebted to those brave souls that made the ultimate sacrifice in honoring our sworn duty").
"I can't think of a greater honor than being sworn in as a United States senator," said the man twice sworn in as vice president of the United States.
"He said it was an honor to be sworn in today and walk through the aisles with Mondale and to be sworn in on Paul Wellstone's Bible," Vale recounted.
Now, last week -- last week I had the honor of being sworn in for a second term as president of the United States.
He said he was cut out of the city budgeting process and was never given the honor of a swearing-in ceremony.
Our judicial system rests on an honor code: "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth".
At 3 20 p.m., I got to the Empire State Building, determined to honor the lovers who swore to meet there in "Love Affair" (1939 and 1994), the in-between remake, "An Affair to Remember" (1957), and the homage-paying "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993) (and the title character of "King Kong," of course, who knew the fastest way to the top).
Since then, the genre's fans have had to get by on a diet consisting largely of sequels, prequels, remakes, the occasional monster smack down ("Freddy vs. Jason," "Alien vs. Predator"), and most dismaying of all, an awful lot of expensive, heavily promoted action pictures that use horror elements but don't have the decency to honor the genre's sworn mission: to scare the wits out of us.
It would be shameful to cheapen that price by not continuing on the path of duty, honor and country we swore to uphold while in uniform.
