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200th anniversary of the starspangled banner with speeches and a variety of performances. The program ends with the simultaneous singing of the National Anthem. This event is about an hour and a half. How is everybody doing today . Pretty good. I want to welcome you all to my name is xavier. Today, we are celebrating our national and International Flag day singalong for the 200th anniversary of our starspangled banner. [applause] years ago this00 year, Francis Scott key wrote the words to a poem...

Were pleased to have distinguished panels before the committee. We look forward to gaining a deeper insight into whats happening and the geopolitical ramifications. Let me turn to senator corker for his comments. Thanks for calling the hearing. Welcome our witnesses on both panels. I think weve got an Outstanding Group of people here today that i know will be very informative. I know this is almost becoming a cliche, but russia seems to be a master at escalating and deescalating at the same time...

Most families, many have kids. And they used to do big jobs with big resource i didnt find it intimidating. And were pretty clever and resourceful i and trying to fige how to do things. While the army didnt help them, they didnt pay much attention to them either. To the extent they could come up with solutions, are pretty effective. At the beginning for the first five months the operation felt on its face over and over and over again to the point that general marshall wrote his protege, general ...

To go back to europe. If it could happen at all, the allies first had to recruit the enormous armies, train them, build the planes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, artillery pieces, and above all the would need to build the ships that would carry 2 million americans across the ocean and channel with all the supplies and ammunition. Then they would need more ships to protect those transports during the crossing. More ships would keep them supplied not only with arms and bullets but also with cocacola and h...

Enslavement of europe. A. M. , the second ranger battalion of the United States army led 224 men onto the beaches below and up these unforgiving cliffs. Bullets and grenades came down upon them. A few minutes after 7 00, exactly here, the first rangers stood. Today, let us ask those american heroes to stand again. [applause] corporal to my right was one of them. He had just celebrated his 20th birthday out in the channel. A young man like all of the rest of them. Cold and wet, far from home, pre...

Months and they wouldnt touch rice either. As far as the mess hall, we didnt have a lot of rice there. We didnt have very good food. It was not too tasty. I came bam from other there and was working in chicago and the Office Manager where i worked was a japanese girl and wound up marrying her and eating rice the rest of my life. [ applause ] lets go back over here. My question concerned which pilot flew the hump first, was it the air commandos or the pilots of the 14th air force . I think it was...

More vigorously and with greater force and depth than had been anticipated. What do you think patton would have done in that circumstance . Landing an army on the beach with no opposition . Would he do you think he might have dug in . You know, thats a counter factual and historians always love counter factuals because i cant be wrong. I can say, yeah, he would have dug in just like lucas did. Or no, he would have raced to rome and the story of the anzio landings would have been considerably dif...

Kcanadians coming from the othe direction. Eventually bradley will tell them to halt. This is a controversial decision at normandy because its thought that it allows germans to escape who otherwise might not have. Well, regardless of that, you do end up with an encirclement eventually by about august 18th, 1944. Tens of thousands of germans had escaped. Some tafrnks and vehicles had escaped. The two sides do join hands in a town called shamboa. Whats interesting is that its not a link up of amer...

To be married and we had three children. Of course, theres one. Another question for the panel . This question is for mrs. Olson and mrs. Snyder. I heard the toughest job is an army wife. How do you feel about that . Do you feel that . Or a marine wife. When he got home, we were married in three weeks after he got home. The war was still going on, he got to come home because of what he had been through, so thats why we were sent to camp leje e lejeune. We lived there on base for almost a year al...

And recover the place and rebuild it. It takes the better part of the summer. Sherborg wont be running that much for the allies until about september 1944. By then its far away from the front lines that are, you know, in eastern france. Its a bit anticlimatic. Supplies coming from then. Well of course the most famous answer to that question is mulberry harbor. Thats the code name for artificial harbors at lies created through remarkable ingenious manufacturing. Basically create your own artifici...