11/28/1974
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"Let us all rededicate ourselves to this principle and to unstinting service to our country and to its people."
"It has your weight wrong, too."
"Without our brave American pilots, we would have witnessed, unfortunately, greater tragedy in the recent evacuation in Vietnam and in Cambodia."
"Now, the 1974 Aviator's Trophy is awarded to a pilot who flew a C-5 airlift mission some 13,000 miles, round-trip, from the United States to Israel."