injured infamous prisons and the one who never returned. he reports how they were held in solitary confinement and faced repeated torture. this was recorded at the national aviation museum in 2014. it is 45 minutes. good morning and welcome to all of you. today for our discovery saturday series we have a special at guest, an author who has written four books and he is going to discuss the latest of those four books. i have it here in my hand. it s entitled defiant the pows who endured vietnam s most infamous prison, the women who fought for them and the one who never returned. he s going to tell us about his book and then hes going to answer some questions and then he will be available to autograph copies of that book if you would like to see them. now we are privileged in the course of his presentation to also have some of the pows that are mentioned in the book with us here today. we have ross. who is sitting right over here, sir. we have ralph gaither who is sitting
home. this was recorded in pensacola, florida in 2014. it is about 45 minutes. good morning and welcome to all of you. today for our discovery saturday series we have a special guest, an author who has written four books and he is going to discuss the latest of those four books. i have it here in my hand. it s entitled defiant the pows who endured vietnam s most infamous prison, the women who fought for them and the one who never returned. he s going to tell us about his book and then he is going to answer some questions and then he will be available to autograph copies of that book if you would like to see them. now we are privileged in the course of his presentation to also have some of the pows that are mentioned in the book with us here today. we have ross. who is sitting right over here, sir. we have ralph gaither who is sitting over here and scotty morgan. where is scotty morgan? scotty morgan right over here. are there any others? yes, sir. bob flynn. any others?
that society should function including full rights for others you would agree? this is the salafi paradigm. you have worked on this as well. this is something not in our hands. this is a generational issue but if a judge that they cannot go on a different path i am encouraged by other signs that would help future islamist reform. they have taken a path that i have not seen over the past decades, a path for example when it comes to the hit job with regard to the brotherhood, even in previous books, the wahhabis there are movements to push back against radicalism. if there are political parties who would connect with these inches of advancement that i would be confident in the future with the help of the secularists and the secularist have a role in seeing a more modern islamist movement. host: some viewers may not recognize the term. guest: it s a religious university which is recognized as the leading sunni religious university based in cairo. it is theologically the va
you re government is still not doing anything about it. so these wise finally start organizing all across the country before the enough, before they had cell phones. they would spend hours and days on the telephone talking with one another. virginia beach, in san diego, in jacksonville, organizing and starting to put pressure on the politicians honor government, on the press to talk about this issue to bring their husbands home. they created an obsolete extraordinarily that we still recognize today, and i expect a bunch of you all wore pow/mia bracelets at one point. there were over 5 million of these things printed or amended. and people from all sides of the political spectrum or them. remember, vietnam was a tremendously divisive or. but because of these women and this pow/mia movement, the country came together around the pow. and around the men that were fighting. for the first time our nation was in a position where we had to differentiate between the political goals of
Each year, Coronadans come together to celebrate the local military community at the Salute to the Military Ball. One of the event’s time-honored traditions is presenting three prestigious awards: the