Friends of the National Report to memorial. World war ii memorial. The program is earning minutes. 30 minutes. Welcome to the memorial as we commemorate and celebrate vj day. Victory in world war ii. Ladies and gentlemen, our ceremony for todays event includes my cai deck. He has been a journalist for and is a weekday morning news anchor here in washington dc. You can see him monday through friday on wake up washington from 4 30 a. M. To 7 00 a. M. Mike was honored with the local emmy nomination for his prime time special, cool schools, the future is now. Please welcome our masters or moneys come a great american, hideck. E hello. Good morning and thank you for joining us for such an amazing experience here at the world war ii memorial. This is your world war ii memorial. Im honored to be a masters of ceremony as we commemorate and remember the allied victory in the pacific and in the end of world war ii. Can everybody here ok . I just want to make sure the microphone is close enough.
My name is mike hydeck. I will be your moderator this morning. I am honored to be here once again with friends of the world war ii memorial and the foundation. Im a morning anchor it channel nine in washington dc. The goal of this discussion is to hopefully share some of their most personal stories from our greatest generation. The thought being their emotional firstperson accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons hopefully and have a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their compatriots have gone through. We know the gentlemen sitting in front of us and the other events we do honoring world war ii veterans, we have a short time to connect with them and understand their stories and the fact they made it through one of the most horrific experiences in the worlds history. It is amazing they are sitting here with us today. We also want to make sure everyone in the
That came into town, to try to find them housing, to find them jobs, and to basically get through the war years and all of the fears that existed back then together. For more information on booktvs recent visit to long beach, and the many other destinations on our cities tour, go to cspan. Org cities tour. Tonights program is a presentation of the guggenheimlehrman prize in military history. A 50,000 price jointly administered by the hari Frank Guggenheim foundation and the New York Historical society. It is thanks to the leader shouppe of of great trustee, the lincoln and financial history scholar, lehrman, that we have joined with the hari Frank Guggenheim foundation this year in trying to engage Greater Public discourse in wartime studies. I want to acknowledge mr. Lehrmans vision of the importance of understanding military history for aural educated systems and his work on behalf of our great institutions and its many intellectual endeavors. Thank you so much. [applause] i also wan
Ascendant. Thanks so much. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Tonights program is a presentation of the guggenheimlehrman prize in military history, a 50,000 prize jointly administered by the Harry Frank Guggenheim foundation and the New York Historical society. It is thanks to the leadership of our great trustee, the lincoln and financial history scholar louis hillerman, that weve join with the Harry Frank Guggenheim foundation this year in trying to engage Greater Public discourse in wartime studies your i want to acknowledge mr. Lettermans vision of importance of understanding military history for all educated citizens and his work on have of our Great Institution and expanding intellectual endeavors. Thank you so much. [applause] i also want to note of encouragement and support of our extraordinary board share. In her philanthropic role, am has seen and understood vividly how the study of the steps to work, the conduct of military campaigns and diplomatic responses to work and play a
We are advantage evangelists on behalf of the study of history. And one of our judges in a conversation today began talking about a High School Teacher he had had when he was 14 or 15 years old. And that teacher, and teachers of adolescents are the Unsung Heroes and heroines of our profession. Thats when you plant an abiding, lifelong affection and even addiction to history. One to have historical muses has been sadly, neglected in the American Academy the american university, for a generation. And one of the ideas of our founders, one of whom i will introduce to you in a moment was that something that the h. F. Guggenheim family could go to arrest could do to arrest this malady and reverse it, is support an annual prize for the best work of military history in english during the preceding year. Finish and that is why we are here this evening. History, as written by practitioners of it who have produced works that indicate enlightened research, who write gracefully, who have in the bac