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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Commissioning 7: Class Portrait

The 2004 Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit The George Washington University commissioning class.

RDML(sel) Ray Spicer USN, Commissioning Officer
CAPT Peter Healey USN, Commanding Officer NROTC Unit
CAPT (Dr.) Richard Southby USNR, George Washington University Liaison

Years later, in 2008, I met Admiral Spicer in the White House Military Office in East Wing. I introduced myself and he looked at me funny and asked "Where do I know you from?". I explained that he was my strike group commander in ENTERPRISE Carrier Strike Group, and before that he was my commissioning officer. He said "That's it!" and took down this picture off the wall. This portrait of the class was framed in his office in the White House.

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Why "A Message From Earth"?

In 1979, Voyager I launched to the outer limits of the solar system and beyond. It carried onboard a gold plated disk for the reference of any intelligent life that found it to learn about earth. The disk contained images of the human figure, greetings in 55 languages, 115 sounds from nature, 90 minutes of music from a variety of cultures and eras, along with a greeting from the President of the United States and Secretary General of the United Nations. These are the only relics of human civilization outside the solar system.

Like Voyager, this record here beams elements of this life into the digital ether. Who will find it? What meaning will it have to them? I hope if the one who finds it is you, this record will have meaning to you of some sort.