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"[on the radio] Burnett!! [Pauses due to no names over the airwaves] Zero-six, you’re a combat naval aviator, start acting like one. You've been shot down. Life is tough. I am very sorry. You pull yourself together. You do whatever it takes. Create some angles between you and your pursuers. Use your training, use your head. Evade and survive, and we will bring you home. Do you understand? We will bring you home."
"[addressing Marines he will lead in his own rescue mission for Burnett] Gentlemen, I want to make one thing clear before we leave - I intend to put you in harm's way. Any man who doesn't wish to join this mission, step away right now. [the men are silent] All right, then, lets go get our boy back."
"In War There Are Some Lines You Should Never Cross."
"Prepare to cross the line."
"Mission: to evade and survive."
"His only weapon is his will to survive."
"Owen Wilson — Lt. Chris Burnett"
"Gene Hackman — RADM Leslie McMahon Reigart"
"Gabriel Macht — Stackhouse"
"Charles Malik Whitfield — Capt. Rodway, USMC"
"David Keith — Master Chief Tom O'Malley"
"Olek Krupa — Miroslav Lokar"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.