Author of fighting for hope. The National World War Ii Museum in new orleans hosted this discussion and provided the video. Greetings, everyone. I am senior director of programs at the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to what promises to be a Great Program on the history of africanamericans in combat in the United States from world war i to world war ii with everything in between and in the immediate postworld war ii years, and i am joined by three of our nations preeminent scholars on this subject. Whohost is dr. John morrow, is franklin professor of history at the university of georgia and is coauthor with our second panelist, who is professor of harlemst nyu, of rattlers in the great war, which is a fantastic book about one of the great africanamerican units in the First World War were. Our third panelist is Robert Jefferson junior, associate professor of history at the , andrsity of new mexico the author of fighting for hope. I
Accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons hopefully and have a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their compatriots have gone through. We know the gentleman gentleman sitting here before us, and the other infants, we have a short the other infants, we have a short time. It is amazing they are sitting here with us today. We also want to make sure everyone in the audience has a chance to participate and ask questions of their own that you will find valuable in your classrooms and for your students. When you ask them, i will probably step forward to make sure i can hear you properly, repeat the question so the audience can hear and the cspan audience can hear and our honorees in here as well. Lets introduce our panel. First to my left in a handsome red blazer [laughter] charles mcgee, one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a career officer in the United States air force
Heros with, our veterans of world war ii. And we thank them for joining us this morning. My name is mike hydeck. Im honored to be here with friends of the world war ii memorial. And the foundation. Im the morning anchor at wusa channel 9 here in washington, d. C. And the goal of this discussion is to hopefully share some of their most personal stories from our greatest generation. The thought being their emotional firstperson accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons, hopefully, and had a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their come patriots have gone through to make it here today. We know that the gentlemen sitting here in front of us and the is other events we do honoring world war ii veterans, we have a short time to connect with them and understand they made it through one of the most horrific experiences in the world history. Its amazing that theyre sitt
His line and say welcome to my house. I am pleased you could join us and whether youre here participating through facebook or youtube, welcome to those of you who are joining on cspan. Today we listen to christian teller discusses most recent book the great partnership, Stonewall Jackson and the state of the confederacy. Doctor keller is the eisenhower chair of the National Security and strategy of the United States Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania. This year he became a director of military history program. In many articles he is the author, coauthor or editor of several previous books on American Civil War including the germans ethnicity and civil war memory. In the introduction in the book he lays out clearly and concisely several things. Including the value of this book. Historical and what youll find in his notes versus the text itself. I greatly appreciate him confronting ahead on interpretive value and reliability of material particularly confederate wartime sources ver
Thank you for your patient. We got a little bit of a late start. Were going to have a great session this morning. Im the morning anchor. At the cbs affiliate here in washington, d. C. Im honored to be back as a moderator of the teachers conference. We did it last year as well. This is a very special occasion. Had a chance to meet some of these gentlemen. Im meeting some new friends this morning as well. Before we get under way and we honor our greatest generation and well go over the goals on what wed like to try to get done this morning, i would like to call up, before we get started, chairman of the friends of the World War Ii National memorial Josiah Bunting iii to say a few things. [ applause ] our greatest ally and most famous ally during the Second World War was winston churchill. Who famously said succeeding generations must not be allowed to forget their sacrifice and their example. And to me the beauty and the urgency of assemblies like this was people like this. Is in fulfill