A position occupied by general george washington. Founding in from 1783 until his passing on december 14, 1799. Today is november 11, 2019 which marks the 100th anniversary of veterans day in america. Originally known as Armistice Day and renamed in 1954 this is a day when we recognize the service of all u. S. Military veterans. We are delighted to mark this important day with a special event designed to salute americas veterans. Guestseased that our include a fellow north carolinian who is the veteran affairs secretary. The honorable robert wilkie. The society of cincinnati was the first veterans group. It is particularly fitting he will provide remarks. You will hear more about that in a moment. We are gathered here to listen to a distinguished panel of noted historians who will be ofcussing the experience American Veterans since the revolutionary generation more than 240 years ago. You towant to encourage return to Anderson House and visit us again to look at our special Museum Exhi
Good evening. Good evening. First of all, thank you for coming out in this rainy evening, i know its a bit of a challenge, but it will be well was your time to be here for the discussion, its my pleasure to welcome you to the tonights program, in tide, historically speaking, will return fighting, and the shipping of modern black identity, public by, its a collection of us is, men and women, who serve the country on the battlefield, as well as on the home front. Their struggles for civil rights one of the main things we will learn this evening is that while the civil rights movement, was that it did, was decades away, the world long ones established an important question of citizenship, that pave the way for future progress, we are fortunately joined tonight, by the museums Deputy Director, and editor of who we return fighting, including an addition to the outstanding scholarship, the images are very powerful. Of americans, at war, on the home front, and also gives us a different look a
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Justify his countrys highly controversial policies. And the broad. View for him kalyan welcome to comfort zone thank you lets start with mr adie once trip to washington a couple of weeks ago. He went to change minds to change influential minds in the United States to talk about the justification for your military action in syria but he appears to have failed to change those minds comprehensively what about happen do you think but for us to visit went well actually we have a Good Relationship with a trumpet ministrations some people that the congress will be with trump rather than the ministration well if you want to make that distinction thats for domestic american politics. To comment about but obviously some people in the congress have a different view the ones he hoped to influence had a different and our president made a very clear case actually for why we went in there because our goal has been to clear our border with syria for more terrorists elements for a better isis or relate
Give an answer, its how she raised him. Her husband, augustine, died when george was young. She was in her 30s raising six children. That alone would resonate with a lot of women in america today. The tough times she went through raising her children. To byhe was referred biographers, from her passing to the time of the civil war, she came across as june cleaver. War, realismil began to take hold in American Literature with moby dick, tom sawyer, huckleberry finn, and all of that. Also, the biographers who mentioned her made her look more like joan crawford, so both got it wrong. There were elements of both of her character and makeup, but both got them wrong. I decided, plus i lived in the was in the life lively area of virginia. It seemed like i wanted to write something about washington, but he had pretty much been covered, soup to nails, but the way to get in and talk about him was to a book about his father. Host give us a quick ir gripper of Mary Washington. It she born in the Un