Who and where were those who once had said the american was no soldier, that he would not fight . World, events were swiftly gaining momentum. Army dropped armydays later, the first occupied cologne. That, 300 of our fortresses of our forces lasted tokyo. Blasted tokyo. By the 17th of the same month, general Pattons Third Army had taken. The next day, and half a world away, our troops invaded the island in the central philippines. That, the third army crossed the rhine. Four days later, the eighth army was landing in the philippines. [explosions] less than a week after that, on april 1, 1945, the u. S. 10th army invaded okinawa. On the 11th of the same month, the Second Armored Division of the night army reached 63 miles from berlin. Thir on the 12th of april, president Franklin Delano roosevelt had yet to see the triumphant advances of american arms but fate denied him the satisfaction the final victory would bring. Afterhan a month president roosevelts death, germany surrendered. Was
At normandy, a special gallery for us here because our museum was originally founded back in 1990s at the National Dday museum by a congressional charter. We were charged with telling the story of the entire American Experience in world war ii, why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today, and so, in this gallery, we get to the big moment where the United States and her allies had to win this particular day. Dday, june 6, 1944. Behind me is our film, merited by tom brokaw narrated by tom brokaw, which gives our visitors the overarching story of dday at normandy, but next to me, over here on the left, a very special exhibit. This is an exhibit case that is dedicated to the long, thin line of english. Bernie pyle walked the beach is where the American Forces landed and he saw all of the d etritus of war at the beach. What we have in this case is actual artifacts and sand from utah and omaha beaches. He writes about what he found. You can see he talks about shoe polish, show
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Kristen the iop is honored to welcome speechwriters behind the words that have inspired us. Terry edmonds served as assistant to the president and director of speechwriting for president bill clinton, overseeing production of domestic policy speeches. Over a career spanning 40 years he has written for nasa administrator Charles Bowden as well as top executives at ibm, columbia university, time warner, the list goes on. He is a graduate from Morgan State University and is adjunct professor at hofstra university. Our next panelist, sarah , sarah hurwitz, served in the white house from 20092017, first as a speechwriter for president obama before becoming had speechwriter for first Lady Michelle obama. Previously she served as chief speechwriter for Hillary Clinton during her 2008 president ial campaign. She is a graduate of Harvard College and harvard law school, and has an upcoming book about judaism coming out in september. And John Mcconnell served more than 10 years in the white house
Culture. I quote an article by bernie pyle the famous world war ii correspondent before he was somebody and before the war he was traveling through the United States visiting pittsburgh pretty wrote an article which is penned append to the Bulletin Board on what we call the vernaculars in downtowns pittsburgh and he characterized the city masterfully in 19391940. This place just goes to work so thats what brought me, thats what i brought to the job in the cia. Host i want to leap to the subject that you deal with more than once which has dominated many aspects of our debate on intelligence in recent years here in the u. S. And thats metadata. It used to be the case back when people just wrote letters in longhand and put stamps on them. There were something i think all the male watch which would let the government tell the post office if you see anything coming will see her going from will say we want to keep track of the address and the return address and the postscript and the date. T