Not kovach. We were introduced i tom, local scribe here years ago and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms ofbackground and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just wanted to give you background before ron and istart speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead end her, i know hope as they were called. Its the average lifespanwith 18 months for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was the game changer. The advent of penicillin, they had surgical units right behind the battlefield, right behind the front line and they had better evacuation back to the mainland. So by the end of world war ii we do have a cohort of about 2500 us veterans who are paralyzed and returned home and they had a chance at a normal life and this was the first cohort that was going to have this and it presented a dilemma and a bit of an issu
Majorwhere the two candidates for president of the United States are about to engage in their fourth Radio Television discussion of the present campaign. Tonight, these men will confined that discussion to foreign policy. Good evening, Vice President nixon. As they did in their first meeting, both men will make Opening Statements of about eight minute each and closing statements of equal time running three to five minutes each. During the half hour between the opening and closing statements, the candidates will answer and comment on questions from a panel of four correspondence, chosen by the nationwide networks that carry the program. Each candidate will be questioned in turn with opportunity for comment by the other. Each answer will be limited to comment one toch 1. 5 minutes. They are free to ask any questions they choose. Neither candidate knows what questions will be asked. Time alone will determine the final question. Reversing the order in their first meeting, senator kennedy w
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His numerous books include the return of George Washington, a New York Times bestseller, to the edges of the earth, winner of the 2019 National Outdoor book award. And some are for the gods, the scopes trial and the american the continued debate oversight of religion for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for history. He was an inaugural library fallow at National Library for the study of George Washington located on the grounds ofra mout vernon. He lives in malibu, california. Please give a warm savannah welcome to edward larson. [applause] thank you very much. Youre welcome. Thank you very much, thank you for having me back to savannah. In the spring when the essay deals are out. Thats always my favorite time. And as note i i taught for 20 years at university of georgia. Thats what i started as a young professor, and eventually was chair of the History Department and those are some of my happiest days. And and i want to give a shout t today two of my oldest friends in the world, or
A feeling that continues to live in us in on some. Good musical Martin Luther king a dream changes the world has a cost of more than 1000 singers that was the guiding principle of the produces the Lutheran Foundation create your church. Zinah boom to on his famous i have a dream address was 16 minutes long so that i 13 minutes of which was a back number for you in a speech hed already given in june of 63 to Union Workers in detroit. One plots finished and then suddenly he put aside his text and improvised for 3 minutes but i mean that was the speech of a lifetime is inspired to send in spirit to momenta. Martin luther kings tal Martin Luther kings dream it wasnt his at all when i got to stay it was gods dream of how we should live together which you can read in the bible with equality and fairness in justice and freedom even with united in love wendys and tom god has god turned the stream into political reality. And our message the message of my script that is this just a dream is utop