American Rhetoric: Movie Speech

"The Great Santini" (1979)

Remembrance Service for Bull "The Great Santini" Meechum

Windows Media Video of Address delivered by Michael Strong

Audio mp3 delivered by Michael Strong

Colonel Varney: The long and the short of it simply is that he died because he stayed with his plane 'til it was clear of the town, because he was a true Marine, and because he cared.

I wanna tell you Ben, Mary Anne, Matthew, Karen, and Lillian that I'll like the world less without Bull. It'll be a duller, more colorless place. We'll all remember him. And we'll honor that memory.

 

Honor Guard: Detail, attention! Half-right face. Ready! Aim! Fire! Aim! Fire! Aim! Fire! Detail, attention! Half-left face! Present arms!

[Buglers blow "Taps" followed by flyover of 4 U.S. Marine Corps fighter planes.]