North and this is an engine of war, the helicopter known by the nickname the hughie. Ask any soldier, sailor and marine who served in vietnam and they will tell you the wof, wof, wof of that rotar is the most welcome thing you can hear. When we were wounded it carried us out. I was medivaced in vietnam. 2. 75 inch rockets and a machine gun that would fire over 4,000 round as minute, a virtual shower of steering lead. Tonight on war stories, the men that pioneered warfare, warriors that risked their lives in a strange, dangerous land called vietnam. April 29th, 1975 the end of the vietnam war and as they had throughout the long and bloody conflict, helicopters provided some of the most memorable images. The frenzy evacuation of the u. S. Embassy in saigon, being pushed into the sea destroyed to make room for south vietnamese. It was a conclusion to a long and costly war. Ten years earlier, a very different time and image. Formations of hughies sweeping in for the beginning of the worlds
In california. Many of you will have at your place setting an envelope, and if you open the envelope youll find a record or two that we were able to find about you when you served the president. And the staff that we have, a great staff inside the foundation, they had more fun and you would just imagine as they would uncover something in a document that links something, theyd say, wow, and youd end up with the conversation around these documents. So i can only share with you that it was a great discovery process for our people and i think we are reproducing them for you to have at your tables as a little bit different. So we thought that would be fun. So [ applause ] its a great honor for me to introduce our first panel of the afternoon, we have two very significant panels, one that will start shortly and one than begins as near to 2 00 as we can make that happen. Im delighted that youre here for the dedication today and especially the nixon alumni reunion. As members of the administra
In california. Many of you will have at your place setting an envelope, and if you open the envelope youll find a record or two that we were able to find about you when you served the president. And the staff that we have, a great staff inside the foundation, they had more fun and you would just imagine as they would uncover something in a document that links something, theyd say, wow, and youd end up with the conversation around these documents. So i can only share with you that it was a great discovery process for our people and i think we are reproducing them for you to have at your tables as a little bit different. So we thought that would be fun. So [ applause ] its a great honor for me to introduce our first panel of the afternoon, we have two very significant panels, one that will start shortly and one than begins as near to 2 00 as we can make that happen. Im delighted that youre here for the dedication today and especially the nixon alumni reunion. As members of the administra
In california. Many of you will have at your place setting an envelope, and if you open the envelope youll find a record or two that we were able to find about you when you served the president. And the staff that we have, a great staff inside the foundation, they had more fun and you would just imagine as they would uncover something in a document that links something, theyd say, wow, and youd end up with the conversation around these documents. So i can only share with you that it was a great discovery process for our people and i think we are reproducing them for you to have at your tables as a little bit different. So we thought that would be fun. So [ applause ] its a great honor for me to introduce our first panel of the afternoon, we have two very significant panels, one that will start shortly and one than begins as near to 2 00 as we can make that happen. Im delighted that youre here for the dedication today and especially the nixon alumni reunion. As members of the administra
In california. Many of you will have at your place setting an envelope, and if you open the envelope youll find a record or two that we were able to find about you when you served the president. And the staff that we have, a great staff inside the foundation, they had more fun and you would just imagine as they would uncover something in a document that links something, theyd say, wow, and youd end up with the conversation around these documents. So i can only share with you that it was a great discovery process for our people and i think we are reproducing them for you to have at your tables as a little bit different. So we thought that would be fun. So [ applause ] its a great honor for me to introduce our first panel of the afternoon, we have two very significant panels, one that will start shortly and one than begins as near to 2 00 as we can make that happen. Im delighted that youre here for the dedication today and especially the nixon alumni reunion. As members of the administra