next the united states world war one centennial commission marks the opening of the national world war i memorial in washington dc with a video tribute and flag-raising ceremony to honor the 4.7 million americans who served during the war the memorial opened to the public on april 16th. it you for more than two centuries the stars and stripes has flown over the land of the free. and the home of the brave we know that it s flying around the world today everywhere us forces are stationed protecting all of us. there are nuns still alive who saw it flying above the american doughboys in places like bella wood cantini and the muse are gone. now it s our job to keep faith with those brave men and women who came before us. in less than two years some 4.7 million americans would join the armed forces during world war one. many of them volunteers and just six months of decisive combat. more would die than in a decade of war and korea and vietnam combined. with a higher casualty rate t
kathleen rooney and miles harvey talk about how they approach historical research for fiction and non-fiction work, at 6:00 p.m. on the civil war, scott hartwig, discussing his research on the battle of antietam. at 8:00 p.m., patrick allitt discusses richard nixon, his national security adviser henry kissinger, and their key foreign policy initiatives. and former u.s. senator sam nun, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. up next on american history tv university of minnesota professor sage matthew discusses how world war i affected african-americans. she says that the promise of a better life because of military service in the war was largely denied by the reality of jim crow america. the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri hosted this talk. it lasts about an hour. good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon, good afternoon, thank you for coming to this session. my name is chad williams. it is my great pleasure and honor to serve
clerk: we should open this up for public comment. if you wish to speak to an item proposed for continuance only on the matter of continuance, you should hit star 3 now to be queued to speak. can i ask why the item was continued, the brannan street one? clerk: brannan i don t believe it was proposed to be heard today. to be honest, i don t know why the brannan item is being continued. okay. i set time to show up and we got notification by mail. clerk: the item is listed on agenda as matter of continuance on the agenda. thank you sir. good afternoon commissioners. my family and i live at 2843 geary boulevard. i understand that there s a continuance that s been requested to address things with the tenant. i like to voice those concerns. clerk: unfortunately, at this time, you cannot on matters proposed on continuance. we are taking public comment but only on major of continuance and not. project itself. is that 2845 geary boulevard? clerk: it was listed 2843 a
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