On september 12th, 19, 18 the American Expeditionary force launched their First Independent operation of world war i. We travel to northeastern france to visit a few locations and learn about a battle in a town just inside of bulge that the germans had occupied since 1914. To begin the story, here is a portion of a 1960 u. S. Army film that gives a brief sketch of the operation. In late july, 1918, pushing created the First United States Army under his command. Immediate steps were taken to concentrate American Forces on one point on the line. That point was saintmihiel. Had held a since early in the war penetrating the allied lines, 60 miles it enabled that enemy to harass operations. More than half 1 million first army troops assembled for the task to crushing it out of existence. 15 divisions were moved into division. By the end of the day, on september 11th, 1918, the first army was ready for its First Independent operation against the enemy. At dawn on the 12th, drizzling rain, th
Brought to you today by your television provider. On september 12th, 1918, the American Expeditionary force under the command of general john j. Pershing launched First Independent mission of world war i. We travel to northeastern france with a story from Mitchell Yockelson to learn about the battle of saintmihiel. A bulge in the we were front that the germans had occupied since 1914. To begin the story, here is a portion of a 1960 u. S. Army film. It gives a brief sketch of the operation. In late july 1918, general pershing created the First United States Army under his command and immediate steps were taken to concentrate American Forces at one point on the line. That point was san my hel saintmihiel. It enabled to harass forces. They assembled for the task of krrk it out of existence. Fifteen infantry were moved. By the end of the day, the first army was ready for its First Independent operation against the enemy. At dawn on the 12th in the driz lipping rain the attack was launched.
Quite logical to me, of course, it is somewhat classicistic, it is more classical, but consider that we do not have such infrastructure, its very good all kinds of innovative things, because now we actually have to build what youre talking about, and its a classic for the nation, but in general the world trends that were coming to a new culture of memories, so we have to complete this gestalt of the old classic and not to prevent the creation of new memorials, for example, a memorial was recently opened. The heroes of the gcc were actually trained in vyshgorod, this is an example of such a modern memorial. And i have already said about slavy park, which is located in the center of the city, in the center kyiv, yes, by the way, not far from the lavra, not far from the museum, the future museum of the holodomor, ah, not far from this stele that is now there, ah, and this place itself, ah. In fact, this glory park was built back in 1957, and some soviet soldiers are buried there, some ukr
What form you have the grave of your national genius, and then, actually, i started thinking about who should take care of the actual graves, yes, if there are no families there everyone is there, yes or no, or as in the case of lesya ukrainka, there is no one, it is the institute of national remembrance, it is some kind of city services, how should it work . Legally, it now looks like this if there is a cemetery such as baikovu, which has a special status there, then the Relevant Services of this cemetery are municipal, by the way, it belongs to the city of kyiv, they are obliged to take care of it, but it is one thing to take care of it in the sense of a couple once a year with an oldschool silver coin , update the inscription like this, and another thing is to fundraise, launch a public discussion in the process of attracting attention, for example, we met with representatives of the Kyiv City State Administration and the ministry of culture proactively, because there is an initiati
Come to order. I want to welcome our witnesses, i appreciate your time and testimony, i look forward to your oral testimony and answering what will be some pretty interesting questions. I frequently say from the podium that the general Inspector Generals, your are go to agencies and government. Youre doing so much to root out and identify and eliminate waste fraud, abuse, dictated programs which is what this hearing is about. The reports by the gao that really started with a Pretty Simple. [inaudible] offering 2010 by senator colborne in the. [inaudible] something we all hate to do but if were going to do it its nice to get some measure of control and a Pretty Simple concept is asking the gao to issue reports and inspections on different programs as resulted in 75 billion of savings over seven years. This is pretty remarkable. Based on the amount of Budget Authority that the gao has, 3. 8 billion over that timeframe that a 20 one investment. Put the microphone on for this. 112 to one.