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(CNN) -- Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia delivered the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday night. Here is a transcript of the speech.

McDonnell: Thank you very much. Thank you.

Good evening. I'm Bob McDonnell. Eleven days ago, I was honored to be sworn in as the 71st governor of Virginia. I'm standing in the historic House Chamber of Virginia's Capitol, a building designed by Virginia's second governor, Thomas Jefferson.

It's not easy to follow the president of the United States. And my 18-year-old twin boys have added pressure to me tonight by giving me exactly 10 minutes to finish before they leave to go watch "SportsCenter."

(LAUGHTER)

I'm joined by fellow Virginians to share a Republican perspective on how to best address the challenges facing our nation today.

We were encouraged to hear President Obama speak this evening about the need to create jobs. All Americans should have the opportunity to find and keep meaningful work, and the dignity that comes with it.

(APPLAUSE)

Many -- many of us here tonight -- and many of you watching -- have family or friends who have lost their jobs. In fact, 1 in 10 Americans is unemployed. That is unacceptable.

Here in Virginia, we've faced our highest unemployment rate in more than 25 years, and bringing new jobs and more opportunities to our citizens is the top priority of my administration.

Good government policy should spur economic growth and strengthen the private sector's ability to create new jobs.

(APPLAUSE)

We must enact policies that promote entrepreneurship and innovation so America can better compete with the world. What government should not do is pile on more taxation, regulation and litigation that kill jobs and hurt the middle class.

It was Thomas Jefferson who called for "a wise and frugal government which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned." He was right.

Today, the federal government is simply trying to do too much. Last year, we were told that massive new federal spending would create more jobs immediately and hold unemployment below 8 percent.

In the past year, more than 3 million people have lost their jobs, and yet the Democratic Congress continues deficit spending, adding to the bureaucracy, and increasing the national debt on our children and our grandchildren.

The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10. The federal debt is now over $100,000 per household. This is simply unsustainable.

The president's partial freeze announced tonight on discretionary spending is a laudable step, but a small one. The circumstances of our time demand that we reconsider and restore the proper limited role of government at every level.

(APPLAUSE)

Without reform, the excessive growth of government threatens our very liberty and our prosperity.

In recent months, the American people have made clear that they want government leaders to listen and then act on the issues most important to them. We want results, not rhetoric. We want cooperation, not partisanship.

(APPLAUSE)

There is much common ground. All Americans agree that we need health -- health care system that is affordable, accessible, and high quality. But most Americans do not want to turn over the best medical care system in the world to the federal government.

Republicans in Congress have offered legislation to reform health care, without shifting Medicaid costs to the states, without cutting Medicare, and without raising your taxes.

And we will do that by implementing common sense reforms, like letting families and businesses buy health insurance policies across state lines and ending frivolous lawsuits against doctors and hospitals that drive up the cost of your health care.

And our solutions aren't 1,000-page bills that no one has fully read, after being crafted behind closed doors with special interests. In fact, many of our proposals are available online at solutions.gop.gov, and we welcome your ideas on Facebook and Twitter.

(LAUGHTER)

All Americans agree that this nation must become more energy independent and secure. We are blessed here in America with vast natural resources, and we must use them all. Advances in technology can unleash more natural gas, nuclear, wind, coal, alternative energy that will lower your utility bills.

Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to become the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas off-shore.

(APPLAUSE)

But this administration's policies are delaying off-shore production, hindering nuclear energy expansion, and seeking to impose job-killing cap-and-trade energy taxes. Now is the time to adopt innovative energy policies that create jobs and lower energy prices.

(APPLAUSE)

All Americans agree that a young person needs a world-class education to compete in the global economy. As a young kid, my dad told me, "Son, if you want a good job, you need a good education." Dad was right, and that's even more true today.

The president and I agree on expanding the number of high-quality charter schools and rewarding teachers for excellent performance. More school choices for parents and students mean more accountability and greater achievement.

A child's educational opportunity should be determined by her intellect and work ethic, not by her ZIP Code.

(APPLAUSE)

All Americans agree that we must maintain a strong national defense. The courage and success of our armed forces is allowing us to draw down troop levels in Iraq as that government is increasingly able to step up.

My oldest daughter, Jeanine, was an Army platoon leader in Iraq, so I am personally grateful for the service and sacrifice of all our men and women in uniform, and a grateful nation thanks them.

(APPLAUSE)

We applaud President Obama's decision to deploy 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. We agree that victory there is imperative for national security.

But we have serious concerns over the recent steps the administration has taken regarding suspected terrorists. Americans were shocked on Christmas Day to learn of the attempted bombing of a flight to Detroit. This foreign terror suspect was given the same legal rights as a U.S. citizen and immediately stopped providing critical intelligence.

As Sen.-elect Scott Brown has said, we should be spending taxpayer dollars to defeat terrorists, not to protect them.

(APPLAUSE)

Here at home, government must help foster a society in which all our people can use their God-given talents and liberty to pursue the great American dream. Republicans know that government cannot guarantee individual outcomes, but we strongly believe that it must guarantee equality of opportunity for all.

That opportunity exists best in a democracy which promotes free enterprise, economic growth, strong families, and individual achievement.

Many Americans are concerned about this administration's effort to exert greater control over car companies, banks, energy, and health care, but over-regulating employers won't create more employment, overtaxing investors won't foster more investment.

Top-down, one-size-fits-all decision-making should not replace the personal choices of free people in a free market, nor undermine the proper role of state and local governments in our system of federalism. As our founders clearly stated, and we governors clearly understand, government closest to the people governs best.

(APPLAUSE)

And no government program can ever replace the actions of caring Americans freely choosing to help one another. The scriptures say, "To whom much is given, much will be required." As the most generous and prosperous nation on Earth, it is heartwarming to see Americans giving much time and money to the people of Haiti.

Thank you for your ongoing compassion.

(APPLAUSE)

Some people say they're afraid that America is no longer the great land of promise that she has always been. They should not be.

America will always blaze the trail of opportunity and prosperity. America will -- must always be a land where liberty and property are valued and respected and innocent human life is protected.

Government should have this clear goal: Where opportunity is absent, we must create it. Where opportunity is limited, we must expand it. Where opportunity is unequal, we must make it open to everyone.

(APPLAUSE)

Our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to create this great nation. Now we should pledge as Democrats, Republicans and independents -- Americans all -- to work together to leave this nation an ever better place than we found it.

God bless you, and God bless this great land of America. Thank you very much.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- At least one organization attempting to deliver aid to Haiti continued to be plagued Sunday by delays and logistical problems, but aid was getting to those who need it most, officials said.

Doctors Without Borders said Sunday that, despite guarantees from the United Nations and the U.S. Defense Department, its cargo plane carrying an inflatable surgical hospital was blocked from landing in Port-au-Prince the day before and was rerouted to Samana, Dominican Republic. Samana is in the eastern portion of the Dominican Republic and across the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, shared by the two nations, from Port-au-Prince.

The material was being sent by truck from Samana, said the group, also known in French as MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res. However, the re-routing added a 24-hour delay to the hospital's arrival.

A second Doctors Without Borders plane was able to land on Sunday. That plane carried additional medical supplies and hospital equipment, the group said, adding it is still concerned about delays in the delivery of vital supplies.

"If this plane is also rerouted, then the hospital will be further delayed, in a situation where thousands of wounded are still in need of life saving treatment," a group statement said. It was unclear Sunday afternoon whether the plane had landed.

See photos, details of some of the missing in Haiti

The surgical hospital includes two operating theaters, an intensive-care unit, 100-bed hospitalization capacity, an emergency room and all the necessary equipment needed for sterilizing material.

"MSF teams are currently working around the clock in five different hospitals in Port-au-Prince, but only two operating theaters are fully functional, while a third operating theater has been improvised for minor surgery due to the massive influx of wounded and lack of functional referral structures," the organization said.

The group said two of its medical teams have performed more than 100 operations since arriving in the country, but frustrations are high over the delays.

An emergency communications officer with the group in Haiti said conditions are growing worse for patients and "we need the inflatable hospital -- if it ever arrives."

"Patients who were not critical only three days ago are now in critical phases," she wrote in a news release. "This means that people will die from preventable infections. It's horrible."

Planes are asked to divert elsewhere if they don't have the fuel to stay in a holding pattern, Col. Buck Elton of U. S. Special Operations Command South told reporters Sunday. Only two planes had been diverted Sunday, he said.

Asked about the matter on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, Lt. Gen. P.K. Keen, deputy commander of U.S. Southern Command, said the Port-au-Prince airport, which is being run by the U.S. military, is operating at maximum capacity 24 hours a day.

"It's a matter of balance between getting relief supplies on the ground, getting the people on the ground that are necessary to get those relief supplies distributed, and getting the logistical capacity on the ground to continue that, and the vehicles so we can get it out by ground as well as by air," he said.

Full coverage of the earthquake in Haiti

More aid was on the way. The National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians held an earthquake survival kit drive at the Haitian embassy in Washington, saying it was accepting items including baby formula, diapers, toiletries, vitamins, medicines, batteries and clothing. Hundreds of people turned out, and they brought enough to fill several trucks full. The overflow of supplies was piled along the embassy's walls and stairwells.

U.S. paratroopers using helicopters from an aircraft carrier delivered 130,000 daily-ration packets on Saturday, Keen of U.S. Southern Command said on "Fox News Sunday." Some 70,000 bottles of water were also delivered, he said.

One helicopter could not land and was forced to drop supplies, Keen said, but the delivery otherwise encountered no problems and was orderly. Keen called it a good day.

Also Saturday, a member of the U.S. Coast Guard helped deliver a Haitian newborn aboard a Coast Guard helicopter. The mother -- one of five Haitians the Coast Guard was transferring from Port-au-Prince to Cap Haitien for medical reasons -- went into labor as the helicopter was refueling aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, the Coast Guard said.

The mother and child were taken to a hospital in Cap Haitien and were in good condition, according to the Coast Guard.

In Washington on Sunday, hundreds of people from different faiths mourned the victims of the quake and donated money during a service at the National Cathedral. Among those in attendance were Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Raymond Joseph, the Haitian ambassador to the United States.

Joseph asked the mourners to continue that support even as the tragedy fades from the headlines.

"I'm thanking you in the name of the people of Haiti and I'm asking you that what you've begun here tonight shouldn't stop -- it should continue until Haiti gains its place among the nations of the world, as it should.

"Please, stay with us until we totally rebuild," Joseph said.

The World Food Programme said it reached 40,000 people in and around Port-au-Prince with high-energy biscuits. The organization said its goal is to reach another 60,000 people on Sunday. Convoys and shipments carrying ready-to-eat foods continue to arrive, the group said.

The WFP's convoy was the first food to arrive in Leogane, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) west of Port-au-Prince and close to where the earthquake was centered, it said in a statement. Nearly every building collapsed, and tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed. Survivors are living in makeshift camps.

In addition, the organization was distributing hot meals in some places, such as hospitals and schools, and has begun setting up kitchens at distribution sites, it said.

The Red Cross said in a statement Sunday it had built latrines for 1,000 people and supplied medical kits for 2,000 patients to two hospitals. Seven truckloads of medical supplies should arrive in Port-au-Prince Sunday night, it said.

Keen told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that the United States intends to continue helping Haiti as long as there is a need.

Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush kicked off a fundraising drive Saturday -- a donation push called the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

George W. Bush told CNN's John King in an interview that aired Sunday, "One thing I am concerned about is that on these -- during these crises, all kinds of fake charities spring up. ... We will make sure the money is accounted for and there's transparency, and [it is] properly spent."

CNN's Karl Penhaul, Arthur Brice, Elise Labott, Laurie Ure, Greg Clary and Dugald McConnell contributed to this report.

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Editor's note: Tom Wilkerson is chief executive officer of the United States Naval Institute, a nonprofit professional association which describes itself as an independent forum for examining issues related to the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. He spent 31 years in the military, rising to major general of Marines and, in his last assignment, serving as commander, Marine Forces Reserve.

Retired Major General Tom Wilkerson says the U.S. should attack the pirates at their bases.

(CNN) -- It is well past time to take a serious look at piracy off the coast of Africa.

Initially, the U.S. ignored the threat, and when public outcry about our seeming indifference became louder, we formed a combined task force of international navies in the Gulf of Aden under command of a U.S. Navy rear admiral to "deter, disrupt and thwart" the pirates.

Today, it is clear that initiative has failed. In fact, this bit of muscle-flexing did so little to intimidate pirates operating out of Somalia that they have actually increased the number of attacks in the last month.

Significant among those attacks, pirates on Wednesday boarded and temporarily held a U.S.-flagged vessel, the container ship Maersk Alabama. The U.S. crew and its captain retook the vessel, but at the price of the captain becoming a hostage to the four pirates in one of the Maersk Alabama's lifeboats. Several hours later a U.S. warship, the Aegis destroyer USS Bainbridge, arrived on scene and, as I write, the standoff with the pirates continues.

What an embarrassing and frustrating event! A bunch of maritime thugs brazenly seized a vessel flying the flag of the nation with the most powerful navy the world has ever known. The fault does not lie with the ships and sailors of Combined Task Force-151. They have been given the proverbial mission impossible -- stop pirate attacks in an area four times the size of Texas with only three U.S. Navy ships and a total of 12 to 15 allied/friendly warships. Not gonna happen!

But embarrassment aside, there is real potential for loss of life and for continued attacks on vessels plying these waters. The issue is simple but difficult -- how do we eliminate the pirate threat?

Strangely, we seem unable to learn from our own history. In 1804 President Thomas Jefferson said "Enough" to paying 20 percent of the U.S. national budget as tribute to Barbary pirates. His response was clear and successful -- build a strong naval task force, equip it with a sizeable contingent of Marines, and send it to attack and defeat the pirates in their lair. The sailors and Marines sent on that mission did just that -- and in the process wrote a stirring page in our nation's early history.

The problem today is that we have refused to take the Jefferson model. We've confined our anti-piracy efforts to the open seas and left the pirates' home bases on land as a sanctuary. Thus, the pirates continue to operate with relative freedom and stealth. We and our allies only respond, never seizing the initiative.

The Jefferson model is a better answer: Take on the pirates where they are, rather than guessing where they will be. In short, attack them at their home bases.

There they are vulnerable. There is where they plan and prepare for raids on vessels. There is where they arrange ransom for held ships and crew members. From these bases, pirates are free to conduct raids without fear of reprisal, let alone interference from organized justice. They are free to venture out to prey upon one of the 33,000 ships that pass near their coast each year, knowing that they can return to the absolute security of their land bases and enjoy their spoils.

It is time to change strategy and take the fight to the pirates, as our military predecessors did with great success more than 200 years ago.

In the 21st century, anti-piracy measures should ideally be the responsibility of local and regional law enforcement. Unfortunately, the non-functioning government of Somalia is unable to bring police or military forces to bear against criminal piracy launched from its own territory.

The predicament has done much to foster piracy, greatly growing the number of pirates and further encouraging their lawless behavior. They are well aware that the rewards of their activities far exceed the risks. With the potential to make millions of dollars through extortion, the Somalia-based pirates take comfort in having no fear of being arrested in their homes for their crimes, and obviously have little fear of being caught on the high seas despite the presence of the combined task force.

Of course, attacking pirate land bases in Somalia as the U.S. did against the Barbary pirates in Tripoli two centuries ago is not a simple proposition. Even without a functioning government present in Somalia, the U.S. and other countries whose ships are threatened are not free to conduct military operations on Somali soil at will.

There are many complicated legal issues concerning sovereignty and laws of armed conflict that need to be thought through before any real action can be initiated. However, these issues must be explored so that the option of a more forceful policy can be duly considered. iReport.com: How should the U.S. respond?

Some may argue that the destruction of the ships and bases of pirates is merely attacking the symptom without curing the disease. They believe that piracy cannot be defeated until its causes are sufficiently addressed. These causes are usually identified as abysmal economic conditions and the lack of a strong national infrastructure.

Previous attempts to undertake larger scale law-and-order projects in Somalia, however, have resulted in a tragedy now memorialized in the national psyche simply as Black Hawk Down. Hence my argument for consideration of smaller-scale actions targeted specifically against the criminal pirates.

Retaliatory and preemptive strikes on known bases are certainly not the only options in dealing with the Somalia pirates, but current policy has already proven to be fairly futile in dissuading attacks. iReport.com: 'Stop the pirates, Obama!'

Those who desire to combat piracy by bringing stability to Somalia must accept that the noble effort will take several years, potentially leaving thousands of ships vulnerable to attack in the meantime. One thing is for certain: Allowing the pirates to have sanctuary while also giving them a clear advantage in the rules of engagement is not going to stop their activities any time soon.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tom Wilkerson.

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text: regional

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text: non

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text: government

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text: Somalia

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text: military

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text: the

text: risks

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text: the

text: potential

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text: of

text: dollars

text: through

text: extortion

text: the

text: Somalia

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text: pirates

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text: comfort

text: in

text: having

text: no

text: fear

text: of

text: being

text: arrested

text: in

text: their

text: homes

text: for

text: their

text: crimes

text: and

text: obviously

text: have

text: little

text: fear

text: of

text: being

text: caught

text: on

text: the

text: high

text: seas

text: despite

text: the

text: presence

text: of

text: the

text: combined

text: task

text: force

text: Of

text: course

text: attacking

text: pirate

text: land

text: bases

text: in

text: Somalia

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text: the

text: U.S.

text: did

text: against

text: the

text: Barbary

text: pirates

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text: Tripoli

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text: centuries

text: ago

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text: not

text: a

text: simple

text: proposition

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text: without

text: a

text: functioning

text: government

text: present

text: in

text: Somalia

text: the

text: U.S.

text: and

text: other

text: countries

text: whose

text: ships

text: are

text: threatened

text: are

text: not

text: free

text: to

text: conduct

text: military

text: operations

text: on

text: Somali

text: soil

text: at

text: will

text: There

text: are

text: many

text: complicated

text: legal

text: issues

text: concerning

text: sovereignty

text: and

text: laws

text: of

text: armed

text: conflict

text: that

text: need

text: to

text: be

text: thought

text: through

text: before

text: any

text: real

text: action

text: can

text: be

text: initiated

text: However

text: these

text: issues

text: must

text: be

text: explored

text: so

text: that

text: the

text: option

text: of

text: a

text: more

text: forceful

text: policy

text: can

text: be

text: duly

text: considered

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text: How

text: should

text: the

text: U.S.

text: respond

text: Some

text: may

text: argue

text: that

text: the

text: destruction

text: of

text: the

text: ships

text: and

text: bases

text: of

text: pirates

text: is

text: merely

text: attacking

text: the

text: symptom

text: without

text: curing

text: the

text: disease

text: They

text: believe

text: that

text: piracy

text: can

text: not

text: be

text: defeated

text: until

text: its

text: causes

text: are

text: sufficiently

text: addressed

text: These

text: causes

text: are

text: usually

text: identified

text: as

text: abysmal

text: economic

text: conditions

text: and

text: the

text: lack

text: of

text: a

text: strong

text: national

text: infrastructure

text: Previous

text: attempts

text: to

text: undertake

text: larger

text: scale

text: law

text: and

text: order

text: projects

text: in

text: Somalia

text: however

text: have

text: resulted

text: in

text: a

text: tragedy

text: now

text: memorialized

text: in

text: the

text: national

text: psyche

text: simply

text: as

text: Black

text: Hawk

text: Down

text: Hence

text: my

text: argument

text: for

text: consideration

text: of

text: smaller

text: scale

text: actions

text: targeted

text: specifically

text: against

text: the

text: criminal

text: pirates

text: Retaliatory

text: and

text: preemptive

text: strikes

text: on

text: known

text: bases

text: are

text: certainly

text: not

text: the

text: only

text: options

text: in

text: dealing

text: with

text: the

text: Somalia

text: pirates

text: but

text: current

text: policy

text: has

text: already

text: proven

text: to

text: be

text: fairly

text: futile

text: in

text: dissuading

text: attacks

text: iReport.com

text: Stop

text: the

text: pirates

text: Obama

text: Those

text: who

text: desire

text: to

text: combat

text: piracy

text: by

text: bringing

text: stability

text: to

text: Somalia

text: must

text: accept

text: that

text: the

text: noble

text: effort

text: will

text: take

text: several

text: years

text: potentially

text: leaving

text: thousands

text: of

text: ships

text: vulnerable

text: to

text: attack

text: in

text: the

text: meantime

text: One

text: thing

text: is

text: for

text: certain

text: Allowing

text: the

text: pirates

text: to

text: have

text: sanctuary

text: while

text: also

text: giving

text: them

text: a

text: clear

text: advantage

text: in

text: the

text: rules

text: of

text: engagement

text: is

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: stop

text: their

text: activities

text: any

text: time

text: soon

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Tom

text: Wilkerson

question: what does a pirate do/

answer: on Wednesday boarded and temporarily held a U.S.-flagged vessel,

text: on Wednesday boarded and temporarily held a U.S.-flagged vessel,

question: where does one find pirates?

answer: off the coast of Africa.

text: off the coast of Africa.

question: who said to follow example set 200 years ago by Thomas Jefferson?

answer: Retired Major General Tom Wilkerson

text: Retired Major General Tom Wilkerson

question: whose strategy has failed to deter piracy?

answer: task force of international navies

text: task force of international navies

question: who represent threat to crews and cargo?

answer: pirates.

text: pirates.

question: Which president set a good example for piracy 200 years ago?

answer: Thomas Jefferson

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(CNN) -- Cheryl Morse was 19 years old when she hitchhiked more than 700 miles from Chicago, Illinois, to Bethel, New York. She was determined to make it to the Woodstock music festival.

An estimated 400,000 people attended the Woodstock music festival in Bethel, New York, in August 1969.

Although Morse, now 59, no longer recalls details such as how long it took to get there or what food, if any, she ate, she still vividly remembers the music.

When Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young opened their set with "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," she said the energy in the crowd was intoxicating. And she can still picture folk musicians Arlo Guthrie and Joan Baez performing in the rain Friday night.

"It was like being totally shut off from the rest of the world for three days, with nonstop music by world-class musicians playing their hearts out ... for our party," she said.

Forty years later, the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair remains a major cultural touchstone. Held in Bethel on August 15, 16 and 17, 1969, the music festival welcomed some of the biggest musicians of the era and legions of fans from across the United States.

Despite the concert's size -- an estimated 400,000 people attended the festival -- it seems the idea of Woodstock is bigger than the actual event was. It is remembered as a peace- and love-filled celebration, an out-of-this-world experience fueled by rock 'n' roll music and copious drugs.  See Woodstock 40 years ago, and what the site looks like today Â»

Like many others, it wasn't until Morse left the festival grounds and re-entered the outside world that she began to realize Woodstock's impact. She stopped at a local market on her way out of town and saw news coverage of the festival on television.

"Until [then], I had not thought about the outside world at all," Morse said. "That was when I slowly began to comprehend the impact the gathering was having on the country."

Woodstock, Morse explained, "came at a pivotal point in history," when the Vietnam War and subsequent anti-war movement were in full swing. The festival, a massive event that was largely peaceful and free of riots, was considered exceptional for the time.

Years later, Morse realized that Woodstock "would never be forgotten," she said.

"It took you 10 years to realize you were part of history," said Lenny Eisenberg, who made the journey to Bethel to see Jimi Hendrix perform. "At the time, it was just another great show."

Part of the concert's lasting power was fueled by the Oscar-winning documentary "Woodstock," which also led to a blurred perception of the festival, Eisenberg said.

"I have some distorted ideas of what happened," he said.

Still, Eisenberg recalls Hendrix's performance that famously closed the festival on Monday morning. The aspiring photographer saved one of the three rolls of film he brought with him to document the guitarist's set.

The wait was worth it, he said. Eisenberg captured several shots of Hendrix, including one of the guitarist with his middle finger in the air, seconds after he flashed a peace sign to the audience. iReport.com: See Eisenberg's photos

"It's really hard to pin down a best memory," said Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock. "The whole place was a memory."

Burke still has his Woodstock tickets along with the check his mother wrote for them. His memories from the event are fond, but fuzzy.

"I remember some of the acts, but not the order or where I was when they played," he said. He recalls seeing Richie Havens and Jefferson Airplane, and can't forget Hendrix's legendary performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

"Woodstock marked a big turning point in my life," said Burke, who was drafted into the Army soon after returning home from the festival. "It was a fitting end to the '60s."

"It was the experience of a lifetime. I've always been proud of the fact that I was there," said Ralph Chin. He remembers the rain and mud, nonstop music, free-flowing drugs and conversations with strangers.

For Chin, nothing can recapture Woodstock. "I went to a couple other festivals after Woodstock, but they fell short on the overall feeling," he said. iReport.com: 'The experience of a lifetime'

"Woodstock was like a big party with all your friends there, whereas the festivals afterward felt more like you were an independent entity and had no connections to anyone else."

"I think it was the ultimate spontaneous thing. It just happened," said John Laferlita, a photographer who attended Woodstock at 23.

Laferlita heard about the festival on the radio and thought, "Why not?" He hopped on a bus from Manhattan, New York, on Saturday, with little more than his camera and tickets. Like many others, he slept on the ground that night.

"There hasn't been anything like it," added Laferlita. "Everything else is planned to the minute, but this was spontaneous. That's what made it so special."

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question: What number of years did it take to realize you were part of history?

answer: 10

question: What do some say of the memories?

answer: "It's really hard to pin down a best memory,"

text: "It's really hard to pin down a best memory,"

question: When did woodstock take place

answer: August 1969.

text: August 1969.

question: What year is Woodstock celebrating?

answer: Forty

text: Forty

question: who distorted the memories of the event?

answer: Eisenberg

text: Eisenberg

question: What Lenny Eisenberg said?

answer: "It took you 10 years to realize you were part of history,"

text: "It took you 10 years to realize you were part of history,"

question: how many years celebrates Woodstock?

answer: Forty

text: Forty