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"[Visiting his wife's grave] I miss you so much... [places flowers] There's something I've gotta do, Barb. Something I couldn't do while you were here. I tried. You know I tried everything, and I still don't have their attention. Let's hope this elevates their thinking. But whatever happens... Please don't think any less of me. [Places his Medal of Honor on the tombstone and kisses it]"
"[addressing Marines] We'll be branded as traitors. The gravest capital crime, punishable by death. Couple of hundred years ago, a few guys named Washington, Jefferson, and Adams were branded traitors by the British - and now they're called patriots. In time so shall we."
"Get ready to rock!"
"Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in."
"America is Rocking!"
"Cocked, locked, and Ready to Rock!"
"Honey, you wanna know who really killed J.F.K.?"
"Sean Connery - Captain John Patrick Mason, Special Air Service (Rtd.)"
"Nicolas Cage - FBI Special Agent Dr. Stanley Goodspeed"
"Ed Harris - Brigadier General Francis X. "Frank" Hummel, USMC Force Recon"
"John Spencer - FBI Director James Womack"
"David Morse - Major Tom Baxter, USMC Force Recon"
"William Forsythe - FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Ernest Paxton"
"Michael Biehn - Commander Anderson, USN SEAL"
"Vanessa Marcil - Carla Pestalozzi"
"John C. McGinley - Captain Hendrix, USMC Force Recon"
"Gregory Sporleder - Captain Frye, USMC Force Recon"
"Tony Todd - Captain Darrow, USMC Force Recon"
"Bokeem Woodbine - Gunnery Sergeant Crisp, USMC Force Recon"
"Jim Maniaci - Private Scarpetti, USMC Force Recon"
"Greg Collins - Private Gamble, USMC Force Recon"
"Brendan Kelly - Private Cox, USMC Force Recon"
"Steve Harris - Private McCoy, USMC Force Recon"
"Danny Nucci - Lieutenant Shephard, USN SEAL"
"Claire Forlani - Jade Angelou"
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.