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[applause] also with us tonight is our cryptic congressman who is retiring after 26 years of service. Thank you, sir. [applause] are Ventura County supervisor, peter ford, peter, thank you for coming. [applause] now, for those of you who are patient enough to go through the book signing line just prior to the event this evening, you know that wonderful woman is with us tonight. Shes a bestselling author of the New York Times and the president of Newt Gingrich production. Please join me in recogn...

Caller mr. Atkinson, i would like to thank you for your great writing and great book on world war ii. I want to ask you a question that we talked about. In your opinion, to the care of post dramatic stress disorder or battle fatigue, what is the difference of care then versus today . Guest we have learned a lot about what was called shell shock. That was discredited in the terms that were adopted in world war ii. By the time that our involvement began and the earlier war had been forgotten, it i...

An element, a memoir. Colonel mansoor is a professor at ohio state. He was executive officer to general petraeus. He has a ph. D and holds the Raymond Mason chair and military history at ohio state. Happy to have you. After colonel mansoor to this presentation we will have joel rayburn, a long front of the American Foundation who was sort of produced some responses to what colonel mansoor says. Is writing an opera study of the iraq war for the u. S. Army. Hes also studying for his ph. D at texas...

Cspan 3 created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable and satellite proprovider much watch us on hd. Follow us on twitter. In the weeks after the june 6th, 1944 dday invasion of normandy france allied troops faced difficult terrain and german fortifications in towns surrounding the beaches. Next military historian John Macmanus talks about what happened in the days and weeks after. What follows from june 7th on ward is an absolute bloody slog that ultimately leads deep into ger...

I unleash the bombing again on july 25th knowing the danger this time. He decides to go ahead with it. Then okay well mark it with orange colored smoke which tells us, okay, dont bomb on this side of the orange colored smoke because thats the u. S. Lines. So the crew men are briefed do not do that. None of them want to bomb their own troops. What do you think happens on july 25th. Heres murphys law. Which way do you think the wind is blowing. Towards the u. S. Lines. So orange smoke is coming ba...

He was followed by fred bremmer the bombadeer and myself. I was wondering what it was like on base just day to day when you werent out on missions . Are you talking about for the air commandos there . Yeah. Okay. Pat, do you want to take that. Well id like to accept it might not come as a surprise to you people that all three of us have hearing aides plugged in our ears. Unfortunately the day before i came up here the right one went on the fritz and i sent it in for repair. I dont know what the ...

Thanks to sheffield and members of the at lant at this history and lecture fund and making it possible to for me to come visit again in atlanta, this beautiful jewel of a city. What is pleasure it is to be here especially at the Atlanta History Center, so devoted as it is to the study of the history of this city, of the state of georgia and the United States. It is great to be back again. I wonder if we could have the lights down a bit because we have some pictures to see. Looking back, over 20 ...

Immigration. The images on the screen show some of the nearly 50,000 children who crossed our border illegally, already this year. With no fear of deportation because of the president s executive actions and his promise of amnesty. The Border Patrol estimateed that nearly a quarter of a million children under the age of 12, will cross our boarder illegally without their parents over the next 2 years. President obama is correct to call the situation, dire. The president ordered 3 separate u. S. M...

Next the director of civil war era studies at Gettysburg College recounts the battle of gettysburg which took place between the union and confederate armies on july 1st to third, eighteen sixtythree and resulted in 50,000 casualties. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the conflict. [applause] thank you to all the members of the Atlanta History Center and to the trustees of the living Selector Fund for making this possible, making possible for me to visit again here in atlanta this beautifu...

Textbook which i use for my course. That book is more draw, more academic and it costs four times more than high price. Time for someone else. Thank you. Thank you all for coming. Final question . Em man has a question. I want to say how much i appreciate the book, i appreciate you, i appreciate your commitment to bring in your expertise to bear. There is a lot of anxiety, ambivalence about this to me as indicative of the deeply rooted myths that operate in our society. They have been destructiv...