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World war ii and the years pacificd, he shaped the in a way that no one else has. Documentspository of and artifacts is a significant component. Quite a remarkable shift for me as i understood what chris is up to down there. That is his day job and by night, he is still in love with the american civil war. On to since gone perryville where he was in charge of the battlefield out there. He has gone on to the George Patton museum which landed him at the mccarthy memorial. He still goes to bed at night and dreams about the civil war. [laughter] it is my great delight to introduce to you my great ...

Our first speaker this morning comes to us from the macarthur memorial in a norfolk, virginia. When i was there visiting this spring. It was my first opportunity to get it down and visit. He said the only thing that is equitable for the type of thing he is overseeing would be a president ial library. That stunned me a little bit. That is a significant thing. If you think about what Douglas Macarthur did during world war ii, afterwards in korea, he really shaped the face of the pacific in a way that no one else has. That repository of documents and memorabilia and artifacts is really a signific...

Richmond. Robert e lees army, safety 5000 men, holding the siege line 65,000 men, holding the seas lines. Siege lines. They face the army of the potomac, and an army level headquarters of the shenandoah under philip sheridan. Years, hasor four had a target on its back. It has been a primary or a secondary objective of u. S. Forces in the Eastern Theater since the wars beginning in 1861. It has had more military resources devoted to its capture than any objective the American Forces have her try to capture up to this point in history of the country. The largest army the u. S. Has ever fielded, ...

February 1942, the japanese objective. A president s order to leave. A soldiers promise to return. Appointmentope, and in tokyo. May 5, 1942. The enemy lands. General jonathan wainwright, defender of the rock. The death march. They moved on. Until australia itself lay open to invasion. At his milburn headquarters, General Macarthur faced grim facts. 500 planes against. He thousands of japanese ofinst him more Thousands Miles of japanese invested islands and controlled cds. Against him was time, space, power to preparation. A new area that seemed huge against the United States. American industr...

Let us pray. Holy god, we gather today at this special place to remember a tragic chapter in human history. We remember lives sacrificed for freedom, and we remember those who served to bring about freedom. And we remember the sur render that brought about a culmination to that tragic chapter in history. May in our remembrance we take hope that justice will come and must at times be brought to bear through conflict. For those whom we stand on the shoulders who made this nation great, we give thanks. For those who still have hurts and pains of this chapter of war, and other wars, we ask for pea...