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Symposium. Okay. Im very pleased to introduce our last speaker for the afternoon. Jeffrey william hunt is the director of the texas museum in mayberry and adjunct professor at Austin Community college where hes taught since 19 8, got bless you. Mr. Hunt is an author of the last battle of the civil war and a contributor to the central war. American civil war. His last work is from the final stage of the Gettysburg Campaign to 1863 and the final volume is due for publication coming out next year. So lets give a welcome for jeffrey hunt. [ applause ] thank you. Its a real pleasure. I appreciate j...

Did yesterday with a quote, but in the introduction to the quote, has anyone not seen private ryan . Anyone not seen it . Thats what i figured. For those of us that have served and particularly those of us that have faced combat that opening scene is something that youll never forget, ever, i hope you never forget it, but the scene most important to me actually came later in the movie. Tom hanks laying on the rubble called over private ryan and he asked him to kneel down, and he said to him two words, earn this. Any victory Worth Winning must be deserved, anda t as the victories are in scale s...

For those of us that have served , particularly those of us that have faced combat that opening scene is something that you will never forget. I hope you never forget. The scene that is most important to me came later in the movie. Tom hanks is laying on the rubble and he called over private ryan. He asked him to kneel down. He said to him to words. Earn this. Any victory Worth Winning must be deserved. As the victories are increased in scale so must be our exertion. Victory, Winston Churchill says, we shall not win through the evils in our enemy. We shall win through the merit in ourselves. D...

Open up higher, just a little higher, and yes, we are still very close to record highs. The dow is going to be up maybe 15, 20 points. Very small gain for the s p, 11 points up for the nasdaq, but up is the operative word of the day. Now look at this. Street battles in hong kong. That is the right word to use. Water cannon was in use, police pointed their guns. There is a report of a shot fired in the air. Chinas leader has a growing problem in his own backyard. Tomorrows october 1st. Chinas big day. The last thing xi jinping wants is more violence in the form of british colony. Big protests a...

Stand out. Where were you when . I had an awful lot of great brakes related to apollo 11. It was the day i got the assignment to do the landing phase. One of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. Im moving in their, we would have been flight directors on gemini and are actually coming back together again. You had probably the three most experienced people at the consult and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Had been to the moon a couple of times. I had the lunar module experience. ...