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For example, if we have a Truck Company that needs training on how to drive trucks, it is it makes more sense if theyre driving trucks that they can also, for example, haul goods and water or whatever to benefit perhaps a relief effort than to just take their empty trucks and drive around in circles on a military base and benefit nobody but themselves, so, a lot of assistance is provided as an incident to training or operations. And the distinction there is that it has to be a training operation. The primary purpose is training and the incidental purpose is the assistance. Even though to the r...

And a good portion of his skull had been loan off. He was still alive bleeding profusely. A corpsman came with me and shook his head and john knew he was dying and he said to me, please be careful. The hill is mined. His last words were please be careful, colonel. There are times we go to the world war ii memorial and i will find johns name and it will put my hand on it and talk to john. He was so brave and uncaring for himself in caring for me. I wore his blood in my utility uniform for three days until i got that is how i got to know john. The other one story which i will always remember, wh...

In october. This is almost 50 minutes. Thank you for coming out so early. We have a big program today. And we are very honored to have with us well, to start, and i think this is great chronologically, apollo seven astronaut walt cunningham. We will get into some questions, but will was on the apollo seven flight, which was really make or break for the apollo like program. They sent some unmanned ones up and they had the terrible fire on apollo 1. These guys made it happen. We had many legends on, but this is one of the greatest. Lets hear it for walt cunningham. [applause] that is a pretty go...

Then greg olson talks about what life is life on the International Space station. Tomorrow night on book tv, the focus is on feminism. Discussions of feminism and american womens movements. Then katie pavlich. Later, deborah road. That is tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern on cspan 2. The cspan cities to her takes book tv and American History tv on the road, traveling to u. S. Cities to learn about their history and literary life. We partnered with Time Warner Cable for a visit to austin texas. We are in a private sutiuite of lyndon johnson. These were the private quarters they were not part of a ...

Died, i get an email from paul. He says just one sentence. I read the book. It is really good. I sent an email back. Paul, i gave you that book in 1977. And you are just reading it . He said, i went to the index and checked what you said about me. [laughter] very typical. He had one more sentence. He said, you know you are number 14, dont you . You are like, what does that mean . That is right. In our group, we were the third group of astronauts. They had 7, 9, and 14. Im only one of the group of 30 that knew where he stood on the selection process. No one ever made it public or anything at al...