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"[At a ceremonial dinner] Thank you all. As you know, my official retirement isn't until next week. But this here, now, tonight, with you- is my real retirement. Because you and I have known fear together, shed blood together, battled pain and suffering, and all of their foot soldiers. We know that there is no glamour in a sudden death, and that no one ever wins a war. And it is that knowledge that will bind us together forever. That, and a love for this country that no bayonet can pierce, no bullet shatter. [Raises a glass] To you."
"I was Liz's mentor. There was a trust. She was a passionate young woman, yes, as well she should have been. But had I ever taken advantage of that... I would have lost the trust. So did I kill her? Of course not. Did I love her? I loved her very much. Make of that what you will."
"John Travolta as Chief Warrant Officer W-4 Paul Brenner (alias First Sergeant Frank White)"
"Madeleine Stowe as Chief Warrant Officer W-2 Sarah Sunhill"
"James Cromwell as Lieutenant General Joseph Campbell"
"Timothy Hutton as Colonel William Kent"
"Leslie Stefanson as Captain Elisabeth Campbell"
"Daniel von Bargen as Police Chief Yardley"
"Clarence Williams III as Colonel George Fowler"
"James Woods as Colonel Dr. Robert Moore, MD"
"Mark Boone Jr. as Staff Sergeant Dalbert Elkins"
"John Beasley as Colonel Dr. Donald Slesinger, MD"
"Boyd Kestner as Captain Jake Elby"
"Brad Beyer as Captain Bransford"
"John Benjamin Hickey as Captain Goodson"
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.