Our guests and house to submit questions for the q a and we also, for the viewers watching on tv, you can tweet us your questions. Before i pass the microphone to our director of policy and Efficacy Program and the moderator of todays program, would like to say a few words. Mpac is a National Public Affairs Organization that works on pluralism for the american doublet. We do that by working on policies that affect our community. The Foreign Policy areas we work on our National Security and Civil Liberties, immigration, human security, as well as religious freedom. For purposes here on this panel, we will be discussing the issue how to counterd isis. It has been mpacs position for years that a robust position is necessary but at the same time our nation can never be truly secure when the Civil Liberties of any community are curtailed and without taking a holistic approach. Furthermore, federal, state, and local government should never condition their engagement with any communities thro
Panelists for agreeing to speak on this very critical and timely topic. To all of our viewers watching on cspan2 and listening on cspan radio. We would like for this panel to be as interactive as possible so we have cards on the table for our guests and house to submit questions for the q a and we also, for the viewers watching on tv, you can tweet us your questions. Before i pass the microphone to our director of policy and Efficacy Program and the moderator of todays program, would like to say a few words. Mpac is a National Public Affairs Organization that works on pluralism for the american doublet. We do that by working on policies that affect our community. The Foreign Policy areas we work on our National Security and Civil Liberties, immigration, human security, as well as religious freedom. For purposes here on this panel, we will be discussing the issue how to counterd isis. It has been mpacs position for years that a robust position is necessary but at the same time our natio
We can see and learn about three original vietnam war era helicopters. Normandy, a flight of eight apache helicopters into iraq and destroyed two critical sites prior to the start of the allied air campaign. Jengeneral cody is a board trus of the intrepid fallen heros fund, on the Advisory Board for the warriors and the lead pilot for the organization flying heros. Thank you, everybody, for our Vietnam Veterans and their families. Sometimes saying thank you for your service isnt enough. I want to tell you what i really want to do is say thank you for inspiring a young 16yearold in montpelier, vermont, back in 1966. Because i got to watch your vietnam helicopter pilots, your daring on tv. That inspired me to want to become like you, a helicopter pilot. Thank you for everything youve done for this great country. In 1991, when i came back from the iraq war, it was 3 00 in the morning. I had my squadron from the 101st. We landed in bangor, maine. We were some of the last guys coming out of
Okay. Good morning everybody, im particularly excited to introduce this event. When we first began discussing the programming, this is the first panel that we thought of and weve been looking forward to it ever since. People have been writing about warfare ever since we had the book. And all our panelists write brilliantly on the topic but each brings a very different perspective. We have a slight change to our published program in their moderator will be sky montgomery from the Camden Institute of the university of missouri. Im grateful to her for stepping in on short notice so join me in welcoming sky, ishmael beah, Gregory Fontenot, Candice Millard and Whitney Terrell. [applause] thank you very much for that warm introduction. As long as human beings have been waging war, they been selling bad stories. Whether its to celebrate the heroic or merely make sense out of the chaos of combat, we can conclude something of the universality of war to the Human Experience from the fact that pl
Senator glenn died december 8 2016 at the age of 95. Up next on American History tv. National air and space museum remembers the life of john glenn on his 96 birthday in a discussion with david pryor and catherine sullivan, veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and the first woman to walk in space. This is about one hour. Great to see this crowd. This is a john glenn event. Good evening. I am jack daly. Of the smithsonian air and space museum, it is my pleasure to welcome you to a very special john glenn lecture in space history. We established this lecture series in 2004 to spotlight legendary figures in aviation. And over the last 13 years, we have welcomed extraordinary individuals. But none of them has loomed larger in the history books then our programs namesake, john glenn. For many years, john glenn hosted these events. The last few years when they were unable to come in person, they were with us in spirit. Senator glenn passed away in december after a lifetime of service to h