The TV series JAG (1995-2005) is my all-time favorite TV series. In reruns I just watched the episode titled "Black Ops" (4/10/95), At about the 52-min point (with commercials), a Navy Seal asks another Seal "who said 'I will fight no more forever?'" The responding Seal said "I don't know." The asking Seal said "I don't know either." When I first watched this episode in 1995, the question didn't mean anything to me - just banter.
Fast forward to 2007. I was watching the just released action movie titled "Transformers." Near the beginning of the movie we see an Osprey aircraft full of military special forces returning from a mission of some sort. They're making small talk and get around to playing a game of "who said these words?" The game ends with the unanswered quiz question (by Josh Duhamel), "who said I will fight no more forever?" This time I knew the answer. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.
I knew the answer because earlier this century, as part of a vacation throughout Northern California, Oregon and Idaho, I ran across the Chief Joseph Nez Perce Museum where I learned the story of the heroic 1400-mile running battle with the U. S. Army from his homeland in present-day Oregon, to near the Canadian border before laying down his weapons and vowing to "fight no more forever."
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