Tuskegee airmen. Please allow me to briefly introduce the panel, and then well come back and hear from our panelists and then well ask questions. I may recite a question or two just for clarity. Lets begin with the person closest to me with the blue cap Lieutenant Colonel robert friend. Lieutenant colonel brown. Lieutenant colonel george hardy. Lieutenant colonel Alexander Jefferson. Lieutenant colonel james h. Harvey iii. And our closer, Lieutenant Colonel harry stewart. Lets first begin with Lieutenant Colonel harvey friend. Well yield the floor to you and then well ask our friends in the audience to give a few questions. Lets have a round of applause for our first panelists. So, colonel, just give us just a brief history about you and your accounts in the military. Well, i was always interested in flying, and when that chance was offered me for instance i had a license in late 30s because i was part of a program the United States was doing in defense potential defense itself, and th
Mr. Jackson year on thank you very much. Thank you and good morning, welcome to the mcgowan theater, we are here to salute american icons the tuskegee airmen, please allow me to introduce the panel. And then we will come back here from our panelists, and they will ask the field to give questions, i may recite the question a timer to just required a. Lets start with the person closest to me with the blue cap, Lieutenant Colonel robert friend. Next to him, harold browns. Lieutenant colonel george hardy, Lieutenant Colonel alexander jefferson. Lieutenant colonel, james h. Harvey the third. And are closer, Lieutenant Colonel harrison. This lets her start, he was born in the first guess he was born in south carolina. Girlfriend, we will yield the floor to you, and then we will ask our friends in the audience to give you questions, lets have a round of applause for our first panelist. Colonel friend just give us a brief history about you i was always interested in flying and when the chances
Its been a wild and rolling couple of days. A lot of history packed into a very short period of time. I want to begin today as i did yesterday with a quote. I introduction only, i want to ask, anyone in here not see saving pry and saving private ryan . Anyone not see it . Thats what i figured. For those of us that have served, particularly for those of us that have faced combat. That opening scene is something that you will never forget. I hope you never forget it. But the sea most important to me, actually, came later in the movie. Tom hanks laying on the rubble called over private ryan. Asked him to kneel down and he said to him two words. Earn this. Any victory Worth Winning must be deserved. As victories our increased and scale so much it be our exertions. Serve victory. Winston churchill said, we shall not win through the evils and our enemy we shall wind through the merit and ourselves. Deserve victory. Let that be the touchstone of every thought, word, and eat. Frankly i think a
Its been wild and woolly couple of days, lot of history packed into a short period of time. I want to begin today, as i did yesterday with a quote, and in the introduction to the quote, has anyone not seen saving private ryan . Anyone not seen it . Thats what i figured. For those of us that have served and particularly those of us that have faced combat that opening scene is something that youll never forget, ever. I hope you never forget it, but the scene most important to me actually came later in the movie. Tom hanks laying on the rubble called over private ryan and he asked him to kneel down, and he said to him two words, earn this. Any victory Worth Winning must be deserved, and as the victories are increased in scale, so must be our exertions. Deserve victory, Winston Churchill said. We shall not win through the evils in our enemy, we shall win through the merit in ourselves. Deserve victory, and let that be the touchstone of every thought, word and deed. Frankly, i think about t
And Joseph Joseph peterburs, he has a special designation with his name as well, call i mace, he did 49 missions before becoming a p. O. W. , then he became, somehow escaped animated and flew with the russian armys, incredible stuff, so with that lets give them all around the applause and again applause as. He so we will start on the end, colonel james harvey, has a special hat on i like to see it because a lot of people think of tom cruz when they see the hat, the unfortunate part though was tom cruz was not the first, shot colonel harvey is part of a top gun squadron and, a group though analysts field, took their airplanes soak their Maintenance Group and became top gun, the First Top Gun pay for the u. S. Air force law. Colonel harvey if he wanted to also little bit about yourself, what do you want people to know about your service in about your time flying combat airplanes and then becoming a top gun . Oh boy, i know its a long list. I never made any model aircraft or anything like