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Thank admiralo robie for his generous hospitality. I should also mention that we are here representing the friends of the world war ii memorial. Named for ours leader, the founder of the friends. You may know that we conduct ceremonies on the important commemorative dates during the Second World War throughout the year yesterday, we commemorated the invasion of torch. On saturday, veterans day. In 1947, a new american secretary of state spoke at the 200th anniversary of princeton university. He concluded his remarks this was a former army general, george marshall, who had just become secretary...

9 11 but an important date nonetheless because on that date a squadron of one dozen b17 bombers in the United States Army Air Corps took off from base in england and flew across the English Channel and dropped the bomb load on a railroad marshaling yard or switching yard in the city stop why is this important city. Why is this important . It was the first allamerican air raid on nazi occupied europe. We had flown with britain but this was the first 100 american raid on august of 1942. A very successful raid, no damage to aircraft or crew. By all of the usual measurements it was a very successf...

Could everybody please take a seat . It really is a good morning, this is one of the first days of the year when spring is something other than a rumor. Welcome to one of all. My name is Tom Birmingham in i and i am Pioneer Institute senior fellow in education. This is the third forum that i i have posted over the last two months since joining pioneer. Given the lineup this morning, i believe you are in for a real treat. As is usual, we can expect a robust and Free Exchange of ideas varied opinions when we have the presentation on teaching world war ii in Public Schools. We would also like to ...

More than 1800 people died from the storm and flooding after more than a Million People had to be evacuated. The death and destruction along the gulf coast from florida to texas although the situation in new orleans is remember the most. They should get underway shortly. Live coverage here on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] its been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf ...

Successful businessman working together with his wife. They established a very Generous Foundation which we are the beneficiaries of, not the only, but one of the beneficiariebene. What he gave to us before he passed away was to endow a special series and bringing the best and the brightest historians to share their works and insight with. So a sincere thanks to the mason family including the mason son and to their foundation. So im very pleased to have the opportunity here to introduce our next presenter as one of the most distinguished historians and in the world on the subject of world war ...