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Here, sharing this content with their viewers. To those watching on the livestream at home, welcome. Moment,like to take a as we start, to recognize some individuals. First, do we have any world war ii veterans or homefront workers in our crowd . [applause] do we have any veterans of any other era . Please stand. [laughter] [applause] and do we have any members of our board of trustees . Thank you all for your service. The museum, we at have been busy commemorating the 75th anniversary of major events in world war ii. ,he biggest of which was june 6 dday, the invasion at normandy. Some other r...

Second. First, we have to focus on the big news happening right here at home in the city of oakland. Executors indigo ship warehouse try are now deciding whether or not to seek a second trial against defendant derek l mehta. They found max harris not guilty on all charges. They voted 10to to convict l mehta. That means a hung jury. Prosecutors talk to harris about feedback on whether or not to retry a meta. Derek l mehta. To be an convicted, he is very unhappy when he thinks about the loss. Our hearts have been with the families of the 36 victims that died in this unspeakable tragedy. That sti...

It is my great honor to welcome our guests, too many of you here and i am proud to introduce our keynote speaker for today, our 24th chancellor, the honorable robert m gates. Chancellor gates is the model for statesmanship that we look to now and for the future. He has dedicated his career to Public Service, serving eight u. S. President s. He leads with a restless and compassionate intelligence, his unwavering dedication to our nation earned him the trust and devotion of our Armed Services his career of Service Began early at william and mary, not many know that he drove a school bus while he...

Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. And this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary space flight. And it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during this heroic age of Space Exploration when humans first ventured off the planet into space and all the way to the moon, when the United St...

1619, ship over arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white landowning they joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. These commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the free world, we have to remember who it included and who did not. Virginia,e paradox of of america, of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands ...