So, welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. You know, were for those who have come here regularly, youre used to seeing the biggest and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the bestselling authors of history books, leading professors, documentarians, but when we were planning this Years Program we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist, and only the second one weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time weve been doing these. Don miller, author of masters of the air, and ddays in the pacific is also one of our longest standing advisers and counselors. Shes a perennial conference presence. He is also like we heard from rick at kinson this morning hes also looking into another time period in our important period in our history, and will be soon coming out this october with vicksburg, grants campaign that broke the confederacy. You know, when planning the committee decided on this idea for a session don told us i
Here due to the conflicts between two european empires, france and spain in the 18th century. Spain had, of course, established itself well in latin america and south america and in mexico. France was over to the northeast in louisiana, and it was up it reached up to the northern border of new spain along the red river. It was causing trouble with the indians and looking into the reaches of texas into the silver mines. The spaniards knew they had to have some sort of defense, and they came upon san antonio. So in 1618, 302 years ago, san antonio was established here. The first thing the priest did when they set up a Community Like san antonio is to build a church. The second thing they did was to set up a water system, and in texas, you have rivers, but you dont really have a lot of green fertile areas too far away from them. So to address that, they drew from their experience in spain, which had come from arabia, which had come from the roman empire, a system of irrigation ditches. Th
Having a 20 or, 22yearold body, but no excuse for you not having a 5000 year old mind. It is at your fingertips. But lets continue to look back so we can see forward, im pleased to introduce you pat lock, who will moderate the next panel, he is the first African American woman to graduate from the United States naval academy, in 1980. She will bring forth a group of women that have an unheard story, of Unsung Heroes that played an Important Role in american history. Im pleased to introduce pat lock. [applause] good morning everyone. Good morning and now i have a lot of friends at the naval academy, but i am not the first african woman to graduate from the naval academy, on the first African American woman to graduate from the military academy, so i want to have that as an admin correction. So, with that, i would like to say that i am honored to be in the presence of this history. I remember reading about these ladies 40 years ago in a department of defense publication, and noticing eve
Statecraft. You heard of great praise. There is nothing you can do about having a 20 or 22yearold body, but there is no excuse for not having a 5000yearold mind. It is at your fingertips. But let us continue to look back so that we can see forward. Im pleased to introduce you pat lock, who will moderate the next panel. Locke is the first African American woman to graduate from the United States naval academy, in 1980. She will bring forth a group of women that have an unheard story, Unsung Heroes that played an Important Role in american s history. I am pleased to introduce pat locke. Major locke good morning, everyone. Good morning. Major locke i know i have a lot of friends at the naval academy, but i am not the first african woman to graduate from the naval academy. I am the first African American woman to graduate from the United States military academy. So i just wanted you all to have that as an admin correction. So, with that, i would like to say that i am honored to be in the p
The prime minister, winston churchill, replied, study history. Study history. In it lie all the secrets of statecraft. You heard of great praise. There is nothing you can do about having a 20 or 22yearold body, but there is no excuse for not having a 5000yearold mind. It is at your fingertips. But let us continue to look back so that we can see forward. Im pleased to introduce you pat lock, who will moderate the next panel. Locke is the first African American woman to graduate from the United States naval academy, in 1980. She will bring forth a group of women that have an unheard story, Unsung Heroes that played an Important Role in americas history. I am pleased to introduce pat locke. [applause] major locke good morning, everyone. Good morning. Major locke i know i have a lot of friends at the naval academy, but i am not the first african woman to graduate from the naval academy. I am the first African American woman to graduate from the United States military academy. So i just wan