Exciting and interesting. This one is no exception. I have seen so many friends who have come from far and wide, including my good friend all the way from texas. Thank you for coming. We are now in the portion of our program, we have had a wonderful introduction to the road to guadalcanal from richard frank. Someday we are going to do a rich frank symposium, eight straight hours. No one would object. I know that. Now, we are in the portion of our program, for the next three sessions, we will be looking at land, sea, and air fighting around and over guadalcanal. We will start with the land portion. Dr. Andy west is universal dr. Andrew wiest is a distinguished professor. He is the codirector of the dale center for society. That rivals the length of my own title, and i think andy needs his own placard. He is the author of numerous books, including war in the pacific, vietnams forgotten army, and the boys of 67. He is also a great undiscovered rock drummer. He is here to speak about the f
Please join me in welcoming kristen pawlak. [applause] kristen all right. First of all thank you to all of , you. Thank you to emerging civil war. It is such an honor to speak to you all about the battle of Wilsons Creek which was fought in 1861 in a southwestern corner of missouri, my home state. The subtitle of this presentation is called this means war the battle of Wilsons Creek. I want to take us back to june 11 of 1861 in st. Louis, missouri to the hotel which is just downtown at one of the Nicest Hotels in the 20th 19th century. Important early war leaders met there. You have Nathaniel Lyon, his aide, francis p. Blair, and for the secessionist leaders, you have major clayborn jackson, governor jacksons aide. They come to keep the peace if possible. They are there to negotiate they , are there to prevent the outbreak of war in missouri. This meeting will last several hours and Brigadier General lion lyon becomes frustrated, to the point he looks at the secessionist leaders and ha
The smoke hadnt cleared from the devastating losses of the island when admiral gormley allowed his flattops to leave guadalcanal. He create as precedent that the marines have never forgotten and that precedent is they should always bring their own airplanes with them because they cant rely on the navy. Were we abandoned . Yes, i have to say we all felt that way. Well, i think they were right. They were, in essence, abandoned during the time that the Tokyo Express came down without any effective opposition. Admiral gormley was someone who was very prudent and very reluctant to gamble. From fishtown, pennsylvania, Charles Calhoun was a 29yearold lieutenant aboard the destroyer. He saw the convoys in action. Tokyo express. Thats the name that was given by our navy to the force which came down from the island chain to bombard guadalcanal on almost a nightly basis. While the marines held onto henderson field, jacob boozer spied on the enemy. They were supposed to be provide bag controls and
Fulton county out of view from media and election officials. They are now pushing back on the claims tonight and gabe sterling tweeting imparts that the video it shows normal ballot processing. A Senior Source in the georgia secretary of States Office telling fox news that the claims that investigated and debunked. The case of the ballots in the video are what they are all supposed to be kept in. My next guest talking to witnesses who swear the exact opposite, consultant and litigation consultant and cofounder of the key party patriots, jenny, good to have you on. If i want to read more of Gabriel Sterlings tweet for you right now and get your response on the other side. He goes on to say the 92nd video of election workers and state farm arena purporting to show fraud was watched in its entirety hours by the georgia secretary of state investigators shows normal ballot processing. The president s team is intentionally misleading the public about what happened and state farm arena on Ele
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