Really fight. I couldnt going, i didnt realize at that time, because of the color of my skin. The story of africanamericans in world war ii is indeed a legacy of patriotism and valor. In 1941 americans looked at their world and saw war everywhere. Across the atlantic adolph hitlers german troops occupied nearly every inch of europe from france to russia to the baltic sea and in north africa. In the pacific, the Japanese Army and navy had already captured parts of china, manchuria, korea, and a number of nearby islands. Pearl harbor would soon stun the United States into war. Monday morning, the first thing i did, was go down to the Army Recruiting station to enlist in the service of my country. I was told there was no quota for black troops. Youve got to remember that this country was very discriminatory, segregated, and there was no change. First of all, black sailors, as sailors per se, other than as mess attendants or stewards, werent permitted into the navy. Given the fact that i w
For you are the one in trouble now. And he was. That fewsafe to say people if any have come to the presidency of the United States who seem so unqualified for that job, as harry truman did in april of 1945. When he became president , no one knew anything about him. What they did know was not reassuring. It was made worse by the fact that he followed one of the legendary president s in all of American History, frank lindy roosevelt. Income franklin d roosevelt. Manontrast to this little for missouri seemed ordinary, even as appearance. Harken back to the days of an earlier president ial misfit, Warren Harding. At least Warren Harding look like a president. Truman set i look like any other 50 people you meet industry, and he did. He seemed to be hard to caricature, he had no particular distinctive features, sort of generic person. Even his name, by the way, seemed inadequate. Harry s. Trumanto know the s stood for . Nothing. He simply added the s because he thought his given name was ine
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Of the National Scientific organizations. Kathleen flenniken is a poet and educated in seattle and the author of three poetry collections including 2012 plume, in addition to nuclear age songs of innocence and experience inspired by him for pictures the Washington State poet laureate from 20122014 and shes cohesively on the board of jack straw local audio art studio and cultural incubator. They are here tonight to talk about steves book the apocalypse factory plutonium and the making of the atomic age. Age. Please join in welcoming Kathleen Flenniken and steve olson. Thanks, weir. Kathleen published a book of poems in 2012 and all of those poems are about hanford. I host so those homes in my book that cannot last week including one of the very beginning of my book thats called a great physicist recalls the Manhattan Project. But for the beginning of this conversation kathleen is going to read a poem from her new book of poems which is entitled postromantic and disconnect in october fro
Communist in the soviet union and china. Cspan recorded this event in 2013. In ber rumia, the professional at bard college was educated in holland and japan. Hes won selfawards for his work, among them the International Prize and assurances dean journalism award. The publications he writes for include the new york review of books, new yorker, the new york times, and roothe guardian, wh the guardian recently published his highly learned and highly entertaining review of the exhibitions current exhibition shungia sex and pleasure in japanese art. Among his books are entertaining the gods, religionen and democracy on three continents, murder in amstra dad and islamabad and limits of toll trance and invading japan, 1963 to 1964. In the zero, most of which he wrote while he was a fellow at the komen center in 201112 to the serious envy of his fellows he was so productive, he produced a brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii in