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Get started. Good morning. Welcome to the navy memorial, our mis and celebrate the men and women of the sea services. Past, present and future, and to educate the American Public about your service. So its actually a tremendous honor for us to be here, and on a day like today, we use the term sea services. Were all in it together. And i think these gentlemen right here represent the idea of being all in it together. I want to say one thing about why im honored. And why were honored to be here today. And the opportunity you all have today. When i looked at the program here. And i look at words ...

Memorial, great partners. My thing to kick things off with all the students with us this weekend, i really encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans of the battle of midway 75 years ago through 45 years of American Military history. This is our past and your future and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Make the most of it. Id like to welcome admiral frank thorpe to say a few words of welcome before we get started. Good morning. Welcome to the navy memorial. As you all know, our mission here is to honor, recognize and celebrate the men and women of the sea s...

I want to say one thing why were honored and the opportunity you have today. When i look at words like trail blazers legends, the last ace, the medal of honor, why we fought, valor, witness to history, and right here, the turn of the tide. It is an honor to be here. I hope you get a lot out the next couple of days, as was just mentioned this is the opportunity of a lifetime that we have to listen to these great americans who set an example and paved a path for us to walk on. Welcome to the navy memorial. I hope you appreciate the hospitality. When i say that, i hope we make it as great as we c...

I will welcome craig to introduce the next panel. Good morning. My name is craig horn. This morning, we will begin an adventure so when we look back we can see further ahead. Its often been said ignorance of the past can create irresponsibility in the present. Its my pleasure to introduce richard b. Frank, an internationally historian of the Asian Pacific world war. He was consultant for the hbo World War Ii Special on the pacific. In that he wrote, and i quote, the pacific war will inspire a long overdue reawakening of the strategic importance, sheer scale and unsurpassed savagetry of the war...

Albright. Well tonight weve got two nor stars. On this stage john and mark e grove, john is a true rising star in this country in the journal war. John got his start as a speech writerring Rudy Giuliani both when he was mayor of new york and later as a president ial candidate john today is editor in chief in managing director of thedale beast but hes way more than that. Hes a very act active writer in this country every major magazine has seen one of his pieces. Moreover hes on television all of the time you can look at cnm, msnbc and pbs you can look at cspan, and youll see john avalon. I wil...