Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is matt miller. I service the president and ceo here at the national War One Museum immemorial it is my pleasure to welcome you here to what i think its going to be an extraordinary couple of days to thing together and learn at the symposium. We are delighted to be house need networking with so many partners to create yet another, i think, exceptional opportunity for us. Whilst you are here, i hope that you take time to spend some time in the galleries. The special exhibition, piece 1919, certainly fits with this theme and he will enjoy that as well as our main galleries where we are preparing for the opening of a new exhibition this week on the vietnam war, 1945, 1975. That is not open until next weekend so its a teaser for you. But we invite those of you who are able to come back through the next several months 30 memorial day weekend of next year to come back and take in really quite exceptional exhibition that also provides the links and
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