Some years ago, war reached into the American Home. The farewells were everywhere. The farms, the shanty tracks, lavish apartments, the uptown states, thehrubs modest houses of the suburban streets. , the men were taken for keeps. He youngest, cleanest each man went into battle in his own way and through his own job. More than half of them saw combat service. These, notcentage of many as you may imagine were in the front lines. Within shell range of the enemy. For anyone in this latter group, a very special experience. He was at any moment, expendable. For him, the baseball parks were full of late, exciting rallies. For him, the beach parties were not as pleasant as they had been a few summers before. For him, the rivers ran by. The boating was not so good. For him, the flight decks were not as wide as the fields of texas. For the rest, there were 1000 nonmilitary jobs, each dependent on the other, youd vital to the winning of the war it represented the protection and lives of all of u
Important overseas American Military base in the 1950s. Produced between 1951 and 1971, the big picture was a Weekly Television report for the army and the american public. Narrator the United States army presents the big picture, an official report produced for the armed forces and the american people. A small, rocky, typhoonswept island, this is okinawa, principal link in the ryukyus chain, which stretches more than stretches over the pacific from japan to formosa. Unimportant . Perhaps at first glance. But okinawas role in todays world is out of proportion to its size. An area equal to rhode island, okinawa is a vital outpost in the free World Defense network less than 300 miles from the coast of communist china. But okinawa has not always played the Important Role it plays today. For many centuries it slept, an island off the beaten track of world affairs. Feudal lords ruled over scattered straw hut villages , where life centered around two things rice and religion. Ancestor worshi
Pratt. We are blessed to have our usual camera crew but also to have cspan with us this evening. We are also Live Streaming this on the udc facebook page. For those of you who want to find it later, you can go to our page, i think. We are going to upload it on youtube, as that correct . So, again, i am sharon pratt, the founding director of the institute of politics, policy, housed aty, which is the university of the district of columbia. We were launched in january of last year by mayor bowser and president mason. We have the same focus as other institutes of politics, except a very strong focus on the history of this city, and by so doing the history of this country. Because unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton there is a song that says in the room where it happened. We are what happened. Washington, d. C. While we have topics of contemporary interest, we always try to drill down on
Thanking our witnesses, secretary esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discussour policy in syria , particularly in light of the tevents that happened just a couple months ago in turkey when they invaded and drove the kurds out of portions of that but its our first hearing since congressman brendici has joined the committee. We have a lot of new faces but theyre not new faces anymore but its good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving, welcome. As i said the purpose of this hearing is to look into the events around syria and as a bunch of questions and the other big issue for us is just the ability of members of this committee toask questions directly of the key policymakers in an area that is of enormous importance and give them an opportunity to learn more about policy and also express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and i th
Shipenburgs university of pennsylvania. Hes an awardwinning author, coauthor or editor of 27 civil war books and more than 40 related articles. He is the Vice President of the center for civil war photographer. Hes been a licensed battlefield guide for 25 years. Hes appeared on numerous productions shown on the bbc, cspan, the pennsylvania public time as d works full chief historian or the American Battlefield trusts. Without any further introduction, i now present to you my friend, gary gear. [applause] leave your book here . Gary yeah, sure, i might need it. Hello, everybody. This isnt easy during the whole civil war in such a sort period of time. Well see if it takes 56 minutes or whatever. Im already wasting time for good luck for those of you who like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are started in the constitution and there amp. Then you have north and south starting to look at each other differently. Southerners look to the north and although they speak the same languag