Destination casablanca, recently published by public affairs. She is a historian and a Senior Writer for the magazine, humanities, which is the quarterly review of the National Endowment for the humanities and among her scholarly credits are articles in holocaust and genocide studies and intelligent intelligence and national security. She has also written for the new york times, salon, long reads and other periodicals. She received her phd from American University and today, she will be speaking on the new a book, destination casablanca. Meredith hindley. Thank you all for coming this afternoon. I would like to thank the Wilson Center and the National History center for inviting me to give this talk today. I want to start not with africa,ca and not with but with another invasion during the war. Dday. When we think about world war ii and when world war ii shows up in popular culture, it is often dday. The sort of brave, heroic moment when the allies, the americans and the western allies
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Destroyed. They rebuilt the country. This is just under 30 minutes. Announcer this is south korea today, the capital city seoul, in some ways as modern, as with it, as anything in the western world. Plays]usic even its nightclubs are just as swinging, crowded, carefree , and overpriced as their counterparts in new york, chicago or los angeles, a long way from the war. Well, 30 miles from the war, anyway. These are the men who make it safe to live and dance in seoul, new york, chicago, or los angeles. They are u. S. And korean patrol alongting a the dmz, 30 miles north of seoul. Almost every week some of them are killed by north korean ambushes, border raids, hidden landmines, by any of 100 ways the communists test the line and violate the 1953 armistice. In spite of everything, the republic of korea struggles to come of age. This is the story of what has happened to her since the armistice. Koreas ancient name means land of morning calm. June 25, 1950, the morning clam is shattered. Th
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