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and i like to talk a lot. prisoner of war slows me down a little bit. civil war prisons and prisoners of war fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. and looking into this story, in a sense, that requires one to dive deeply into the wreckage of the war, the consequences of the war. and, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. it s a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally and figuratively. the prison site was chosen on purpose 150 years ago to be as remote and as insulated a place in the confederacy, far from perceived locations of battle. and 150 years later, this prisoner of war story remains distant from the rest of the narrative. we have the tendency to talk about prisoner of war camps, and andersonville, off to the side of the main narrative of the war. it s, you know, as we talk about battles and campaigns, oh, by the
VietnamRepublic-ofNew-yorkUnited-statesCharlestonSouth-carolinaAmerican-legionNorth-carolinaAlabamaGermanyAtlantaGeorgia accounts of the horrors within the prison. this is part of the gettysburg institute annual summer conference. it is about an hour. [applause] the conference last year, you know, i circumstances conspired so that i was a fleeting head on the screen and i m very pleased this morning to actually be present and projecting images of prisoner of war camps and military prisons on the screen instead of me. i don t think i represent well that big. i m going to negotiate a very, very dangerous set of rapids this morning. the professor at georgia southwestern state university, who is married, in fact, to one of my employees, dr. glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. it becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. and i will explore that. and i am going to weave in between the two a little bit. a note on semantics before i start any further. i hesitate to use the acronym p.o.w. in a ci
VietnamRepublic-ofCharlestonSouth-carolinaUnited-statesAlabamaCamp-douglasWisconsinGettysburgSalisburyMashonaland-eastZimbabwe am for school choice. toward anklegether toward incremental progress and we can get to where we want to go. gentleman on the outside? this is the last wetjen, so make it a good one. i m with the magnet schools of america. i want to get your impression about magnet schools. it s the largest in public school choice. do you think embracing a magnet approach could be a good way to bridge the divide between the two parties considering magnet schools generally respect the right of teachers to unionize? under the purview of a school district as far as administration, they are the largest part of public school choice and give parents the right to choose and they encourage competition. increasing funding to magnet schools through federal programs and embracing that approach may be a good way to move forward? have in theience i greater richmond area is that we have terrific magnet schools. there is a school that is very for publicth school students to apply to and be accepted. ce
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