we got there just in time. for joan malcolm frost and dan rice, both west point graduates the 16th hole has particular meaning. it s an honor of operation desert storm. u.s. forces under general norman schwarzkopf, class of 56 from west point, liberated kuwait under the direction of president george h.w. bush. turning a blind eye to saddam s aggression would not have avoided war, would only have delayed the world s day of reckoning. the one west point graduate who was killed in action was lieutenant donny tiller who was our classmate. he was shot town on the last day of the war. so brings it home to you guys, the sacrifice of so many of the men and women who have gone to thursday constitution. that s what helped to motivate me to continue to stay in the united states army, continue to serve through bosnia and the last couple of wars which we have seen those on the 17 and 18, the great monuments for operation iraqi freedom and
labor source. german prisoners of war. transported from the battlefield 0s of europe to this american army post. eye recently played a round at west point with brigadier general malcolm frost in 1983, he was a lowly plebe, a freshman entered west point. now a few decades later he served all over the world, including combat deployments to bosnia, iraq, and afghanistan. these days he is the army s chief of public affairs, and in that position, one of his concerns is how american civilians and military personnel relate to one another. we do have a growing military and civilian divide within society. less than one percent of the population has servedded in the military and so as we re coming off the end of the last 14 years of warfare, although there s a lot of concern and danger in the world and forces that are deployed around the world, we do want to ensure that the civilian society and the military