2012 on her and him he nomination. Over the past two years, she has covered everything from the midterm elections of 2010 to the rescue of the chilean miners. Before that, she was a white house congressional for the Tribune Broadcasting washington, d. C. , bureau. Its our honor and tribute to have as todays mistress of ceremonies miss autry gottfried. [applause] she will be introducing the official party. Good morning. It is my great honor to be your mistress of ceremonies this morning as we commemorate and honor all veterans who have served our great country. To all of our veterans and service members, past and present, we all a debt of gratitude and our lasting appreciation for our service for their service to our country. Thank you all for being here today and a special thanks to all our veterans for your service and sacrifices for our nation. Im pleased to introduce the official party for todays veterans day commemoration. Our keynote speaker for today, one of americas premier war
I knew right then that i was going to get it. Half an hour later, i did. We had been fighting for ten weeks. We brought back a spirit of feeling of confidence not only in the staff but also in the regiments, battalions and companies which really put us in good stead for the future. These are the men who served in the 84th Infantry Division during the final months of world war ii. First committed to action on the siegfried line in november 1944, they were caught up in the bat many of the bulge and the conclusive engagements that followed. This is their story. Hitler ordered a major counselor offensive. In hitler ordered a as fog and sleet grounded all allied plane, infantry southwest into belgium recapturing the key road junctions. And surrounding the defenders. A major part of the german attack was turned against the town of marche, beyond which lay paris recently liberated and antwerp, the chief supply port. The 84th Infantry Division had left the siegfried line and had taken up posit
Mr. Johnson then projected americas policy in vietnam, saying the United States was ready to begin without conditions diplomatic discussions to end the war in vietnam. He calls it the only path for reasonable men. Johnson demands and independent south vietnam, secure guarantees, and able to shape its own relationships to all others, free from outside interference, tied to no alliance, a military base, or no country. He called on Southeast Asian nations for Economic Development and he asked the United Nations to join in the plan. Johnson on our part, i will ask the congress to join in a billiondollar American Investment in this effort as soon as it is under way. [applause] president johnson and i would hope that all other industrialized countries including the soviet union will join in this effort to replace despair with hope and terror with progress. The president said the task is to enrich the hopes and existence of more than 100 million people. He pointed out that education in trades
History. I have written history, but i did not expect to be so influenced by Something Like this book. I really had no sense of the crucial role chaplains played in world war ii. Indeed, i sort of had in my mind there were these chaplains floating around during the war, a lot of them on the home front in america in those 600 plus chapels that were built on the s and fortshe base all over the country. And then, when they went off on ships with the troops, they were sort of in the background. Maybe in tent hospitals. Maybe they were holding Worship Services when they could. And all of those things are true. But what i had no idea of was the heroism of these men. And in world war ii, it was only men that were chaplains. I have no idea of the crucial role they played in the war. Let me read to you a quotation from the commander of the 75th Infantry Division in world war ii. And his words are for the men and women under his command. This was general pricketts comment. He said, religion is b
I unleash the bombing again on july 25th knowing the danger this time. He decides to go ahead with it. Then okay well mark it with orange colored smoke which tells us, okay, dont bomb on this side of the orange colored smoke because thats the u. S. Lines. So the crew men are briefed do not do that. None of them want to bomb their own troops. What do you think happens on july 25th. Heres murphys law. Which way do you think the wind is blowing. Towards the u. S. Lines. So orange smoke is coming back towards the american lines, theres confusion by at least one or two groups and thats all it takes, they will unload their bombs over the u. S. Lines and there will be more friendly fire casualties. Ultimately 111 americans killed. Many come from the old hickory division. By july 25th, general hobbs hates the u. S. Air force. The 30th division is going to be told were sorry this happened to you but go ahead and attack. If you ever heard of the great war correspondent ernie pyle he wrote what t