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I am awfully happy to welcome the of plot back thank you. All of you to this gathering and this event. Stephen ambrose once said that hed been struck by how many Army Veterans of the campaign in europe, 19441945, had become teachers. He made the obvious link, which partly needs explication before audience like this but consider the chronology. If you were a 20 year old rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924. You are now 90, and if you have become a professor or teacher, you probably have left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years. Your education was underwritten by the g. I. Bill, and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and of military history. A successor generation of men and women in college, in the later 1960s and 70s whose experience may or may not have included service in vietnam, people now in their 60s and 70s, have furnished a large ....