Today. Great to see so many people out here, hungry for books. Toiling away in front of my moreter, dealing with electronics than live people. Of course im writing about history. The people im writing about our dead. Its nice to see live people. Engrossed in the kinds of things i and other writers here write about. I was fortunate to have grown up in a home that was filled with books. I grew up in yonkers, new york. A suburb of new york city, thousands of books, walls filled with books. As a little kid the sense of myks around me is one of most indelible memories of childhood. Remembering that is a tiny kid starting to climb i thought of the bookshelves which were floortoceiling as mountains i could climb up. My mother would find me five shelves up crying to get down again. Both my parents were fortunately great readers. My father was a self educated working guy. He installed boilers and heating systems. My mother on the other hand, had a degree in classics. She was a poet. A human rig
Front line and the home front. Aftermath ofne the war. In this veterans day tribute we remember and honor the soldier photographers who, through their images, were witness to the postwar destruction in a world forever changed. I would like to welcome leigh reynolds, strategic medications officer. He retired from the army reserve in june of 2017 with the rank of colonel with more than 35 years of military service in the active army and army reserve. Colonel reynolds deployed three times commanded the American Forces network in iraq and baghdad director of Media Operations and assistant spokesman for military commissions at guantanamo bay, cuba and was the chief of Media Operations and senior at guantanamo. An assistant professor of military science at the university of southern california. Please welcome lee reynolds. [applause] good evening. Thank you dr. And also thanks to National Archives administration for cosponsoring the event. My name is lee reynolds. The strategic medications o
An area called berkshire county. A pretty place that used to be isolated, surrounded by hills and mountains. Not big like the alps or our rockies but big enough to discourage traveling in the old days. Going west from boston, you had to head over the passes on the old mohawk trail. Then you got into an area maybe 20 miles wide and 50 miles long. Like a lot of new england towns, there are the traditional white houses and neat gardens and picket fences. That is the oldest house. Then there are the churches. And the town hall. The country around stockbridge has forest, farms, water in good supply. They tell me it is much like the lake country in england, including the writers to go along with the scenery. Hermann melville, the author of dick, live here. Lived here. In the summertime, the quiet of the town changes to a bustle of summer visitors, who come to enjoy the countryside, the theater, the ballet at jacobs pillow, and of course the concerts at tanglewood, where the boston symphony p
Remember and honor those soldier photographers who, through their images, or a witness to the postwar destruction in a world forever changed. I would like to welcome lee reynolds, the Strategic Communications officer for the center of military history. He retired at there of colonel with more than 35 years of service. Deployedeynolds was three times. He commanded the forces network in baghdad. He was the chief of Media Operations and senior spokesman for detention operations at guantanamo. Professor insistent the assistant professor of military science at the university of southern california. Please welcome lee reynolds. [applause] good evening. Thank you to the National Archives Record Administration for hosting and cosponsoring the event. Reynolds. Lee i am the Strategic Communications of the surfer the u. S. Army of military history. The center of military history is responsible for recording the official history of the u. S. Army while also advising the army staff on historical ma
Weekend on cspan three. Next, a panel of photo historians looks at the u. S. Army signal corps with a focus on images captured by photographers. The National Archives and the u. S. Army center of history covers to this event. The Army Signal Corps photographic collection is one of the largest in the branch. Roughly one million images covering world war i through 1981 ronald a military activities during war and on the home front. As we will examine tonight, the aftermath of war. In this tribute, we remember and honor the soldier photographers who, through their images, or a witness of postwar destruction. Welcome the Strategic Communications officer for the u. S. Army center of military history. He retired from the army reserve and 2017. He had the rank of colonel and 35 years of military service. He deployed three times and commanded the American Forces network in a rock and baghdad plus direct Media Operations and assisted spokesman for commissions at guantanamo bay, cuba and was the