I was born and raised in the country. At the time of growing up, my father was in the dairy business. We were farm people and we lived in a farm community. We had 11 kids born to our family. Some of them back in the teens and when the flu hit in 1918, the epidemic came along, we lost most of them. But five of us survived. I wasnt born yet. I wasnt born until 1923. Of course the flu epidemic ended in 1919. We had no military influence in our community at all. There was no bases. People who went in the army back at that time and we didnt know there was any other branch of the service. Because we thought everybody went into the army. The army was the army and included everybody. The army or military service was not too well thought of in those days. You went in the army because you were in trouble with the law or you were too lazy to work. Thats the only reason you went into the military. We had a couple of fellows in our community who apparently didnt like to farm. They didnt like hoeing
Hershel i was born and raised in the country. At the time of growing up, myhed father was in the dairy business. We were farm people, and we lived in a farm community. There were 11 kids born to our family. Some of them back in the teens, and when the flu hit in 1918, the epidemic came along, we lost most of them. But five of us survived. I wasnt born yet. I wasnt born until 1923. Of course, the flu epidemic ended in 1919. But we had no military influence in our community at all. There was no bases. People who went in the army back at that time, and we didnt know there was any other branch of the service, because we thought everybody went into the army. The army was the army and included everybody. The army or military service was not too well thought of in those days. You went in the army because you were in trouble with the law or you were too lazy to work. Thats the only reason you went into the military. We had a couple of fellows in our community who apparently didnt like to farm.
Up up, my father was in dairy business. We were farm people and we lived in a farm community. We had 11 kids born to our family. Some of them back in the teens and when the flu hit in 1918, the epidemic came along, we lost most of them. But five of us survived. I wasnt born yet. I wasnt born until 1923. Of course the flu epidemic ended in 1919. We had no military influence in our community at all. There was no bases. People who went in the army back at that time and we didnt know there was any other branch of the service. Because we thought everybody went into the army. The army was the army and included everybody. The army or military service was not too well thought of in those days. You went in the army because you were in trouble with the law or you were too lazy to work. Thats the only reason you went into the military. We had a couple of fellows in our community whoa apparently didnt like to farm. They didnt like hoeing corn and putting up hay and whatever. Those two fellows thou
Featuring members of the aspen Economic Strategy group. Big thanks to our society of fellows and community of donors for supporting our programming and your engagement all summer long. We cant do it without you. Thank you so much for your support. [applause] i dont know if they are here yet, but a big thanks to tom and bonnie for their support of the institute and for endowing the fletcher series. [applause] its my pleasure to introduce our speakers and thank them for being here. First, to my immediate right is rob portman. Rob is a former u. S. Senator from ohio, distinguished visiting fellow at the american in Price Institute American Enterprise institute. His career spans three decades including three president ial administrations and two terms in the United States senate and six terms in the United States house of representatives. Thank you, senator portman, for being with us. [applause] to senator portmans right is cecilia rouse, who previously served as chair of the council of ec
Midst of global challenges. The event is about an hour. Portman. Featuring members of the aspen Economic Strategy group. Big thanks to our society of fellows and community of donors for supporting our programming and your engagement all summer long. We cant do it without you. Thank you so much for your support. [applause] i dont know if they are here yet, but a big thanks to tom and bonnie for their support of the institute and for endowing the fletcher series. [applause] its my pleasure to introduce our speakers and thank them for being here. First, to is rob portman, rob is a former u. S. Senator from ohio, distinguished fellow ohio, distd siting fellow at the american in Price Institute American Enterprise institute. His career spans three decades including three president ial administrations and two terms in the United States senate and six terms in the United States house of representatives. Thank you, senator portman, for being with us. [applause] to senator portmans right is cec