Are at the world famous Schomburg Center for research in black culture. Why is the world famous . Because it is the most important repository to study black history founded 90 years ago. And who is pearl . He is the founding cureateer. He migrated from puerto rico and found a job on wall street working in a mail room. He worked hard and brought any rare or unique books you could find that were by or about black people eventually becoming famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library, borrow from the library, people like langston hues and hurston eventually. It arrived 90 years ago and made up the core of what is a 10 million item collection at the Schomburg Center for research in black culture. How did it end up at this location . Because this was the settlement zone, ground zero, for what came to be the negro mecca of the world. Harlem usa four blocks over. Most people today think about harlem in relation to the apollo or the baptist church. 12
Can take. Not really knowing or understanding consequences of what that pill might do to that their body in the long run. But in africa, they dont have that option. They just want to live. Over here, theyre able to live because they have medicine available. In africa and asia, they dont have that option some of the people, because they dont have the medicine. And i think you have seen a rise, a its cyclical, seems to happen every ten years, that this disease starts to rise again amongst the young. And im at a loss to explain it because, you know, everyone knows the consequences of being hiv positive. As i say you can live a safe and healthy life like a diabetic. It is probably easier to treat someone with hiv than a diabetic. That would be my explanation, why youre seeing a rise. In the rural south its it is also a huge problem as well. And i think, again, a lot of it is stigma. A lot of people not wanting to admit they have the disease. Not a lot of people are being tested. Not a lot
Are all gone. There are still world war ii veterans left, about 1. 1 million. About 700 die every day. If you get the opportunity, go talk to one. It could be any veteran from anywhere. It could be these gentlemen, a grandfather or grandmother. Just do it. Just talk to them. And let them tell you what it was like. But its such an honor to have you here and thank you for your participation today and good luck to all of you. [applause] also at the conference for ilitary veterans two honor recipients. They talk about their reasons for joining the military. This is about 40 minutes. Good morning. The medal of honor is awarded by the president of the United States in the name of the u. S. Congress. The medal of honor was created in 1861 and several years later on march 25, 1863, the first edal of honor was presented to a private. Since then only 6,000 have been awarded. 3,470 represents a very small fraction of the tens of millions of women who have served in uniform. There are only 79 livi
Us, how can we better serve our people whenever we become commissioned officers . He wants to borrow 100. [laughter] that would be easier. He wants to know how the Younger Generation when they become commissioned officers how can they best serve this country like your generation served our country . Well, i dont know exactly how to answer that because the training that you young people are having and have had doesnt come anywhere near to the lack of training that we had when we were young. I enlisted before the japanese attack and i did that because uncle sam had paid for my flying to get a privates license and have a basis for going on to flying at randolph and Kelly Air Force base. The other thing was that as a young person, i had been interested in aviation, mainly because i was exposed to a lot of Army Air Corp flying. I was born and raised in dayton, ohio and i had an opportunity to observe what the Army Air Corp was doing at a base that no longer exist. Called mccook field. It wa
Was maintained by war fighting sources. The total combat sorties was 15,943. Total aerial kills was 112. Id like to ask everybody a question. How many of you have heard that the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber under their escort . Ok. Education time. Ladies and gentlemen, im here to tell you that the myth of never losing a bomber is false. The total number of bombers lost while under escort by the Tuskegee Airmen was 27. This is going through air force records both on the enemy side and on our side. By comparison, the average number of bombers lost while under other p51 squadron protections in theater was 46 for the same period of time so even though they did lose aircraft, their effectiveness showed they were a stretch above the average p51 unit in theater at that time. Please feel free to pass that information on. To date, 66 tuskegee pilots gave the ultimate sacrifice and were killed in north africa and european combat zones. Additionally, 32 were shot down and captured and late