Director James Clapper and washington, d. C. Mayor, Muriel Bowser. Oh, say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilousthree oer the ramparts wewatched, were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say does that starspangled banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our mistress of ceremonies for tonights Ribbon Cutting, cohost of fox 5 new yorks good day new york and a member of the International Spy museums board of directors miss lori stokes. [applause] thank you so much. And thank you for coming out on such a miserable day. I was just speaking with nelson a few minutes ago. He said to me, lori, im so sorry about the rain. And i said, they said rape rain is good luck, so were going to take it like that. And
[singing starspangled banner. ] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our mistress of ceremonies for tonights Ribbon Cutting, cohost of fox 5 new yorks good day new york and a member of the International Spy museums board of directors, miss lori stokes. [applause] ms. Stokes thank you so much. And thank you for coming out on such a miserable day. I was just speaking with milton maltz a few minutes ago, and he said to me, lori, im so sorry about the rain. And i said, they said rain is good luck, so were going to take it like that. And thank you to my friend lafayette who is helping me today, keeping the hair intact. [laughter] [applause] how is everyone feeling tonight . [cheering] ms. Stokes such an exciting evening. Good evening to Everyone Welcome to the Ribbon Cutting of the new International Spy museum as a member of the board of directors, i am really delighted that you have joined us this evening to celebrate this beautiful new space and als
Country involved in world war i. And now heres Jennifer Keenes look at soldiers lives during world war i. Im very happy to introduce a couple of friends of mine this morning. First up is Jennifer Keene whos professor of history and chair of the department of history at Chapman University in southern california. And as you can tell, shes a specialist in the American Military experience in world wor i. She is an awardwinning scholar, her books include the United States and the First World War. Shes also the author of dozens of articles and book chapters and has written, edited and contributed to textbooks and reference works. Her encyclopedia of war in American Society won the prize of the society for military historys best military history reference are book. One of her many articles won the prize for the best military or diplomat bic history essay that was published in historically speaking. And she also edits a peerreviewed online encyclopedia and other digital humanities projectings.
[inaudible conversation] folks, lets get going this morning and please remember if you would to put your phones on do not ring so that were not interrupted during our speakers presentations. My name is ray a pennington, ipg military history at norwich and im very happy to introduce a couple friends of mine this morning. Is Jennifer Keane whose professor of history and state of the department of history at Chapman University in southern california. And as you can tell, shes a specialist in the American Military experience in world war i. She is an awardwinning scholar, her books include the great war and remaking of america. And United States in the First World War. Shes also the author of dozens of articles and chapters in and has written and contributed to textbooks and reference works, or encyclopedia of war in American Society one the Research Society for military historys best military history reference book. One of the many articles one Jack Miller Center prize for the best milita
Professor of history and chair of the deferment of history at Chapman University in southern california. As you can tell shes a specialist in the American Military experience in world war i man awardwinning scholar lose her books include the great war and remaking of america, and the United States in the First World War. She is the author of dozens of articles and has contributed to textbooks and reference works, the encyclopedia of war in American Society won the society for military historys best military history reference book. One of her many articles, Jack Miller Center prize for the best military or diplomatic history published in historically speaking and she edits the peerreviewed online in cyclopedia and other digital humanities projects. In addition to all that she was coedited, finding common ground, new directions in First World War studies. She is on the Advisory Board of the International Society for the First World War studies and associate editor for the journal of Firs