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Weekend. I encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans at the battle of midway 75 years ago through the 75 years of American Military history. This is your own past and present and future so this is a great opportunity and a onceinalifetime opportunity to make the most of it. I would like to welcome admiral frank thorp to say a few words of welcome. Welcome to the navy memorial. As you all know, our mission here is to honor, recognize, and celebrate the men and women o...

Welcome and thank you for being here. This is our 20th year of the event. E are very happy you are here we want to thank the Navy Memorial for their hospitality for this weekend. Theyve been great partners over the years. My only word i have to kick things off is for all of the students that are with us this weekend. I encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans at the battle of midway through the 75 years of American Military history. This is your own past and present...

The American Veteran center. Welcome and thank you for being here. This is our 20th year of the event. It is a very special year for us, and we are very happy you are here. We want to thank the Navy Memorial for their hospitality for this weekend. Theyve been great partners over the years. My only word i have to kick things off is for all of the students that are with us this weekend. I encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans at the battle of midway 75 years ago th...

The pacific after pearl harbor. Up next on American History tv, Navy Veterans who participated in the battle of midway recount their experiences. The American Veterans Center Hosted this 50minute panel discussion. My name is tim hobart. Im executive director of the American Veterans center and thank you for being here. This is our 20th year of this event, so its a very special year for us, and were very happy youre here. Of course, we really want to thank the Navy Memorial for their hospitality ...

So its actually a tremendous honor for us to be here. And on a day like today, we use the term sea services, but in the end were all in it together. And i think these gentlemen here represent the idea of being all in it together. And i just want to say one thing about why im honored and why were honored to be here today and the opportunity you all have today. You know, when i looked at the program here and i look at words like trailblazers, legends, these are in the agenda. The last ace, leaders...

Memorial, great partners. My thing to kick things off with all the students with us this weekend, i really encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans of the battle of midway 75 years ago through 45 years of American Military history. This is our past and your future and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Make the most of it. Id like to welcome admiral frank thorpe to say a few words of welcome before we get started. Good morning. Welcome to the navy memorial. A...

I want to say one thing why were honored and the opportunity you have today. When i look at words like trail blazers legends, the last ace, the medal of honor, why we fought, valor, witness to history, and right here, the turn of the tide. It is an honor to be here. I hope you get a lot out the next couple of days, as was just mentioned this is the opportunity of a lifetime that we have to listen to these great americans who set an example and paved a path for us to walk on. Welcome to the navy ...

I will welcome craig to introduce the next panel. Good morning. My name is craig horn. This morning, we will begin an adventure so when we look back we can see further ahead. Its often been said ignorance of the past can create irresponsibility in the present. Its my pleasure to introduce richard b. Frank, an internationally historian of the Asian Pacific world war. He was consultant for the hbo World War Ii Special on the pacific. In that he wrote, and i quote, the pacific war will inspire a lo...

The White Helmets volunteer rescue group has been posting pictures of the alleged careen gas attack on twitter under the hashtag duma suffocating russian and jordan thats the latest from washington d. C. This is a war in syria has not been at the top of the news agenda here in washington for at least several weeks but on thursday the trumpet ministration made known a couple of serious concerns about the conduct of the war on the part of the government of president Bashar Al Assad first reporters...

I cant write this book on making pillows. Im out of patience. Im out of time. And if i inhale one more feather, im gonna officially qualify as a mattress calm down and tell me what happened. It exploded. Again im going down to osheas. Dick. No telling what time ill be back. Dick, its not even noon. Joanna, dont try to stop me. I need a milkshake. Dick, come on. Youve never give up on a book before. Thats because my other books were about things i knew about. Guy stuff. Lumber. Steel. Bricks. Not...