Day. She is in the south side of the city. Here is his mother who was born in norfolk and had Four Brothers who joined up to the Confederate Army from norfolk during the civil war. He was the youngest of the children. After the war in northlands, he met a man named Arthur Macarthur who had earned the medal of honor in the battle of chattanooga. They fell in love. When they got married, her three brothers who had served in the army and the cousins found other places to be during the wedding serum many. They were not able to make it. One of the things that people do not realize about them at mark about the macarthur memorial is that we are not all guns and battle. We are really about people and history. I like to show his baby picture. He was born in little rock, arkansas where his family where his father was stationed at the time. You can see the photograph here of his other brothers. Brother, his older arthur who went to annapolis and graduated from the Naval Academy. That is what thes
I want to show you some of the treasures from our collection. Lets go take a look. We are located in the old Norfolk City Hall that was in 1850 and given to the macarthur memorial in 1984. City hall contained nine galleries that chronicled the life and times of general Douglas Macarthur. It answers the question, why is the macarthur memorial in norfolk . The short answer is mom. Let me show you a photograph of his mother and the family estate. The family estate is on the south side of the city. It is now a city park. Here is macarthurs mother who was born in norfolk and had Four Brothers who joined up to the Confederate Army from norfolk during the civil war. She was the youngest of the children. After the war, she met a man named Arthur Macarthur who had earned the medal of honor in the battle of chattanooga. They fell in love. When they got married, her three brothers who had served in the of Northern Virginia army and the cousins found other places to be during the wedding ceremony.
Afternoon nap. I dont think he was drunk. I have to say that that advice on Alcohol Consumption may be the most encouraging thing ive heard for a very long time. Lets go to the gentleman at the book of the room now. I would like to start by saying how much i appreciate the canadians arrival in england in 1940. The First Canadian division arrived and they were virtually the only group or troops we had to protect us. I also appreciated them because i can remember them with our feet up on our fender in our kitchen. Giving me lollipops and american comics, including little orphan annie. The question i would like to ask is that at the end of the war i believe the canadians forgive britain debt. I would like to ask, if you know, how much that was in financial terms. Im not sure exactly here. Okay. Im not sure exactly how much they gave. The total amount that canada gave to britain and to join the war was 3. 2 billion. That was used for manufacturers and food stuffs and machinery and military
Afternoon nap. I dont think he was drunk. I have to say that that advice on Alcohol Consumption may be the most encouraging thing ive heard for a very long time. Lets go to the gentleman at the book of the room now. I would like to start by saying how much i appreciate the canadians arrival in england in 1940. The First Canadian division arrived and they were virtually the only group or troops we had to protect us. I also appreciated them because i can remember them with our feet up on our fender in our kitchen. Giving me lollipops and american comics, including little orphan annie. The question i would like to ask is that at the end of the war i believe the canadians forgive britain debt. I would like to ask, if you know, how much that was in financial terms. Im not sure exactly here. Okay. Im not sure exactly how much they gave. The total amount that canada gave to britain and to join the war was 3. 2 billion. That was used for manufacturers and food stuffs and machinery and military
To be introducing our next Andrew Roberts. Coming from the memorial in kansas city, we have enjoyed , and arenerships looking forward to the recent symposium and are very excited to be working with the churchill center. In the new Young Professionals group that will be having a churchillian of it next saturday. Hopefully we have a whole new array of churchillians during the conference in the future, and that is not completely sold out, so that is really exciting news for everyone. As someone who works on social i wonder what Winston Churchill would have done if he had twitter, especially at 3 a. M. [laughter] the special team is doing a b, john olson here. So, i emailed Andrew Roberts a wastimes before as i constructing this introduction and i wanted to give him a highlight. He replied i have written 13 books. So i have the immense honor to introduce Andrew Roberts who is 13 times over an incredible author. He is currently a professor at Kings College london. He has written or edited 1