Good afternoon, everybody. You can hear me okay . My name is todd sedgwick. Im privileged to be one of the commissioners of the centennial commission, and it is my honor to help organize this symposium. I want to thank all the participants and all of you in the audience for coming, and the thousands who are watching this this afternoon from home as it is being live streamed. Very briefly i would like to introduce the moderator and panelists. On my far right is rob dalessandro, a wellknown author and military historian specializing in the American Expeditionary forces. And has written a couple of books. One is for sale outside. Im going to be a shill for rob and encourage you to buy his book out there. He just came out with a new one called remembering world war i, which is being published by eastern national. It just came out very recently. They are the distributor for the park service. He also is acting secretary of the American Battle monument commission, and most important to me, he
Thanks to other weather problems we had to ditch we have the right panel here. I could myself on that, to talk about americas entry into the war. This is provocative question. Program touch on it today quite a bit. What is americas place in the world, particularly swirling im going election to have our panelists will open with a couple of remarks, then we will have some questions. Every time i look at that it echoes of wilson, very much with the topics we hear today. Should beagenda primary, american first or should we be involved in bettering democracy overseas, and a more stable world . These are all topics that we touch on and what will no doubt be a spirited conversation. Who have risen to be you have every reason to be afraid. [laughter] great times together. Jack, i will open the floor to you. Thank you very much for inviting me here. Ive never been to this museum, it is extraordinary. The centennial is very important. The entry into the war become even more itself is a rorschach
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