John jay hennessy is an author serving as the chief historian and chief of interpretation at gettysburg at the military part. Worked he is the author of a great book, the first battle of manassas. Lets welcome john hennessy. [applause] mr. Hennessy i have to start with this. This is not a gratuitous phrasing of my team that i have loved since i was 11 years old. The pittsburg penguins play hockey. Remember they won the stanley cup. I offer this is context for some of what you have heard this week. Does anybody recall who was defeated in the final . [booing] mr. Desmond do you remember mr. Hennessy do you remember . Do you remember . Nashville is in the state of tennessee. The lives in the state of tennessee . Will green. [laughter] mr. Hennessy after the stanley cup finals, he called me or i called him. I can armor which. He told me how great it was. I told him, you know the penguins won. A said, were the predators fun game to watch . It occurred to me as i was sitting listening to him
On cspan3. Next, the president of the society of the honor guard, tomb of the unknown soldier, talks about the history of Arlington National cemetery and the tomb of the unknowns. He describes how confederate general Robert E Lees mansion became a Burial Ground during the civil war and discusses the role and creation of the tomb guard and tells stories about some of the notable people interred at Arlington National cemetery. Is a little over 90 minutes. [applause] all, thank you for the invitation and thank you, Jessica Jones were doing the legwork and getting this organized and put together. This is very much we have guys in their 90s, guys in active duty, and females in our society who have guarded the tomb because the tomb was guarded first in 1995 by corporal heather johnson, the first female to walk them at in 1995. The tomb guard badge depicted on case here,d in this this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut is in the low 200
Our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut badge is in the low 200. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man who has completed his training and is ready to be considered a badge holder and of the fraternity and sorority, brotherhood or fellowship of tomb guard. We are a 501 c 3 organization and part of our bylaws is that we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, sort of a sweeping generalization, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talked to School Groups and it is appalling how little they know of our history. It is not their fault. We have failed them because we have allowed all of this testing and teaching to the test and not put history on the test. I will get off my soapbox. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups pro bono. This is my 81st speech this year. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is
Affected the outcome of the war. Mr. Stoker is a strategy and policy professor at the Naval War College in monterrey, california. The Bryant Park Corporation, Oxford University press and the New York Historical society cohosted this 55minute event. Thank you so much, paul. Good evening, everyone. As paul mentioned, im alex kassl, manager of Public Programs at the New York Historical society, and its a pleasure to see so many familiar faces in the audience tonight and a great pleasure to introduce tonights speaker and to once again partner with Bryant Park Corporation and Oxford University press on this terrific lecture series. Weve had a great run this summer. Next week is our final week in the series and at the historic society, we Just Announced the fallwinter series, and thats on the website now, brochures to come early september, so something exciting to look forward to. Tonights program will last about an hour and will be followed by a booksigning by our featured speaker, donald s
Into his arm may not understand that the money he used to buy that heroin is supporting terrorism, targeting americans here in this country and around the world. 75 to 80 of the worlds heroin comes from afghanistan. If you can get to the country that is the root of the problem and focus our attention on those people that can cause us a harm, we have a lot more impact. In this particular case, we were up against the biggest drug trafficker in the world. As a former fbi agent and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee i had oversight of all 16 of our nations intelligence agencies. My name is mike rogers. You had access to classified information gathered by our operatives. People who risked everything for the United States and our families. You dont know their faces or their names. You dont know the real stories from the people who lived the fear and the pressure until now. On september 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country. The leadership of alqaida h