You are watching American History tv, all we can, every weekend, on cspan 3. Chief Tadodaho Sidney Hill what an exciting thing going on. To me would start of the game we are playing here that has a whole history in itself it is been part of our history and part of our entertainment. That was played on the other side, and brought to us for our enjoyment and to help our people. We call this the womens shuffle dance. And the women are very important. We honor this with our men. Chief sidney hill with all the things that happened, with the loss of land, and the forced removal of our and the diseases and the wars, we have been diminished as a people. Our culture and our languages and our ways have been attacked, not only physically, but through policies. For us to be hosting other countries today is quite an accomplishment, to say the least. My position is one of traditional leadership and as you know, women choose the leaders. Women are the clan mothers and they give out names and how we f
On cspan3. Next, the president of the society of the honor guard, tomb of the unknown soldier, talks about the history of Arlington National cemetery and the tomb of the unknowns. He describes how confederate general Robert E Lees mansion became a Burial Ground during the civil war and discusses the role and creation of the tomb guard and tells stories about some of the notable people interred at Arlington National cemetery. Is a little over 90 minutes. [applause] all, thank you for the invitation and thank you, Jessica Jones were doing the legwork and getting this organized and put together. This is very much we have guys in their 90s, guys in active duty, and females in our society who have guarded the tomb because the tomb was guarded first in 1995 by corporal heather johnson, the first female to walk them at in 1995. The tomb guard badge depicted on case here,d in this this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut is in the low 200
Our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut badge is in the low 200. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man who has completed his training and is ready to be considered a badge holder and of the fraternity and sorority, brotherhood or fellowship of tomb guard. We are a 501 c 3 organization and part of our bylaws is that we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, sort of a sweeping generalization, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talked to School Groups and it is appalling how little they know of our history. It is not their fault. We have failed them because we have allowed all of this testing and teaching to the test and not put history on the test. I will get off my soapbox. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups pro bono. This is my 81st speech this year. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is
Cold warold more submarine commander and was the american president of the american polar society. A firsthandthor of account of historic under ice survey of the siberian Continental Shelf by the u. S. Queen fish. He joins us from his home in need of an colorado neither land, colorado. Alfred i will take you through a variety of things. The very first part i will take you through some of the highlights from my first book. The first survey of the siberian Continental Shelf. When i finish talking about the book, if there is time, i have 1999, i, starting in started documenting the titanic 16,000 feet almost to see the german battleship bismarck. Up to last november i was chief pilot of a highspeed submersible that could fly like an airplane. You will pick up very quickly that my main model in life is anything to avoid yardwork. You stay around the house, you get put to work. You see the five attack votes i served on. The book covers the first three. To this day, we cannot tell you how fa
U. S. Naval Academy Class of 1955. And a veteran of more than 20 Cold War Missions and three arctic expeditions. He was awarded to legions of merit as a cold war submarine commander and was the president of the american polar society. He is the author of a firsthand account of historic under ice survey of the siberian Continental Shelf by the u. S. Queenfish. He joins us from his home in nederland, colorado. Alfred i will take you through a variety of things. The very first part i will take you through, some of the highlights from my first book. The first survey of the siberian Continental Shelf. When i finish talking about the book, if there is time, i have included, starting in 1999, i started documenting the titanic and total to almost 16,000 feet to see the german battleship bismarck. Up to last november, i was chief pilot of a highspeed submersible that could fly like an airplane. You will pick up very quickly that my main model in life is anything to avoid yardwork. You stay arou