Encouraging stories that none of us have heard about. His hymnbook, escape from paris, the true story of love and resistance which is based on official american documents history and interviews with several others. Its a thrilling adventure story of american aviators. [applause] i like to thank you all for coming. I appreciate when people show up and i hope not to bore you. I want to give you a quick background on myself, people tend to wonder how you find military history. I was born and raised in socal a long time ago. My father and my uncles fought world war ii in the pacific. Grew up hearing their stories fighting the japanese and the ocean and everything. When i was 19, i enlisted in the u. S. Army in 1971. It was the best decision i ever made because six months later, i got run over by a personal carrier as a result, i am a disabled veteran. They are very heavy. They dont give much. I spent just over a year in hospitals in germany and the u. S. And this was way before the interne
The last in a series of systems coming into the intermountain region does not show any more of this happening anytime soon so its a dry pattern but its also back to normal. 60s and 70s for the high. Sal is here and he will focus on. The Richmond Bridge. Is something going on . Just because. In the last few days its been empty. People have not been going to marin. Power is out. Im sure a lot of jobs, people were not going to their job if the power was out but now we see more traffic. Lets go there and talk about the Richmond Bridge. A few more people going and, of course, in Sonoma County there hasnt been much of a commute for obvious reasons we havent seen one yet i think will take a few days for things to get back to normal but right now it looks good on the Richmond Bridge. Other commutes have been more normal. The east shore freeway, 20 minutes from the carquinez bridge to the mac maze and of the bridge its backed up to the mains. Metering lights are on. Halloween is a challenging d
Okay. So, lets start. Delighted to have you here, the call of the wild west is what i called this. Jack london, rugged individualist or socialist . Turned out to be both. So, jack london, the most popular writer of his time, even more popular than mark twain, since mark twain was in the twain of his life. Jack london was the up and coming major figure, sold a half million copies of books, really a phenomenal character. He was an individualist who spoke out against individualism. He was a capitalist who railed against capitalism. He was a socialist who criticized the socialis. He was a racist who hated racism. Now you know who jack london is, very complex character. And so well have some time for question and answer. But anyway, i like many of you, perhaps have been fascinated with the novels, stories and life of jack london, the most prolific novelist of the american wild west. Theres probably no better eclectic writer than london. He loved as a miner lived and wrote as a minner, sailo
World war ii memorial, this is half an hour. So, really excited to invite Becky Morrison and areen winchester to tell us about fashion innovation in world war ii. They both teach in virginia. Becky is one of our Community Service superstars and were so stoked that you brought another teacher from her school this year. This is a model, like, bring tell your friends to come to our conference. Okay. Please join me in welcoming them up for their presentation. [ applause ] she stole my line because i was going to say this is probably the best teacher conference you can ever go to and thats why i brought irene this year. This is my third year. And i just want you guys to go back to your school and encourage all your teacher friends to come because this is such a valuable conference. So thank you, friends, of the world war ii memorial for inviting me back again for your number three. So irene and i are going to talk about well see this in a video later on but fashion on the ration. And so in
Lets start. Were delighted to have you here. The call of the wil wests what i call this project london, rugged individualist or socialist. Turned out to be both. So jack london, the most popular writer of his time, even more popular than mark twain since mark twain was in the twain of his life there jack london was upandcoming major figure. He sold a half million copies of books and really a phenomenal character and he was an inability who spoke out about an accomplice. He was a socialist who despised the socialist. He was a racist who hated racism. So now you know who jack london is. A very complex character. We will have time to question and answer. But anyway like many of you perhaps have been fascinated with the novel stories of jack london and the prolific novelist of the american wild west. Those probably know better collective writer then london, he lived as a minor, he lived and wrote as a minor, sailor, writer, world traveler, agitator, one who had experienced life in the west