Past and the road to peace. This is 90 minutes. We have a prized seat in the front row if i can induce someone to come on up. Good evening, and welcome. I am hoge warren and i am happy to happy to welcome you to this event. We are insiders view on the failed past and the road to peace and. Sain sain he is here to talk about irans program and the conflicted relationship with the United States and his own close personal association over the years with the two principles on the iranian side in the Current Nuclear negotiations. This makes him a perfect quest for ipi tonight because this is a guest because this is a tantling time for the United States and iran. The two countries have been sworn enemies for the last 35 years but as many people have pointed out they are also two countries that have much in common, tremendous influence, and parallel Interest Despite their profound differences. The current round of talks between the that should happen one can imagine a situation where the u. S.
That are unknown to us or are barely knowable and definitely unable to be spoken about that are around us. This isnt as deep a question but it is a serious question. You all are all obviously very intelligent people say you had to known where you were hiking was near iran and iran is a special and friendly to americans. Did you not have a map or any sense of how far you have gone . No maam. But beforehand. I remember we were in solomon nia and i remember seeing it on the map. Its on the eastern part of ir iran of iraq but its not on the border. Some people said go to this waterfall so we went to the waterfall. I remember thinking we are near the eastern side. At one point during hiking and this is one of those thoughts that plague me in solitary confinement, i remember mentioning we are heading to iran totally without any notion that we were near it but just feeling like well we are heading east and near east and we talked. We talked about it for a moment and we were like no is probabl
This is 90 minutes. We have a prized seat in the front row if i can induce someone to come on up. Good evening, and welcome. I am hoge warren and i am happy to happy to welcome you to this event. We are insiders view on the failed past and the road to peace and. Sain sain he is here to talk about irans program and the conflicted relationship with the United States and his own close personal association over the years with the two principles on the iranian side in the Current Nuclear negotiations. This makes him a perfect quest for ipi tonight because this is a guest because this is a tantling time for the United States and iran. The two countries have been sworn enemies for the last 35 years but as many people have pointed out they are also two countries that have much in common, tremendous influence, and parallel Interest Despite their profound differences. The current round of talks between the that should happen one can imagine a situation where the u. S. Iran cease being enemies an
The seven. Coupon going. Im happy that all three of you are here in front of us tonight. So i know that your family and your friends really miss you unsupported your lot while you were in iran and send your letters and cards and pictures of the will times. Sometimes the mothers of ready several times a day. So i just wanted to know how often you actually got these letters. Were they censored . Did you get some and piles . Did you ever get them . What was that experience like . Is today we spoke at a different venue. And i saw somebody who wrote a letter to me. She rode it. I remember the day and got it. I can tell you exactly what was on it. I could do that for the other 50. When i got them i was shaking the letters at the sky, reading, laughing, crying. It was like the world busted open. End but that was from friends and family, extended family. After that it was only from immediate family. And it wasnt regular. Once a month, once every two months. It was hard to ever know. We would a
Who flew the hump first, do you know . What outfit . What outfit flew over the hump first . Well, there was a flight of airplanes, jake sarts who was my roommate, arrived in india in 3n of april. And he was 2 and another you man, paul conroy, flew a couple of missions before. Also, jake sarts was the last airplane out of rangoon that i think most of you heard about that theyre loaded on 31 or 71 passengers. And when they arrived in india, there were 72. It wasnt magic. It was a baby. Okay. The first hump flight incidentally was flown by robert old in early april of 1942. And you know what they carried . They carried fuel to china for the doolittle raiders. They ended up not needing it. What air force was he with the 14th or not . Do you know . Well get back with you. Can i ask another question . What was the casualty rate of the pilots that flew the hump . Im sorry. I dont know. I know it was very high. Yes. I do think that i saw a figure of about 600 aircraft and crews went down over