History buff but unlike a lot of people who make that claim the history buff in my family was not my father. It was my mother and of her four children i seem to have been the only one she passed that gene onto. She took advantage of that one day we were driving into the city from westchester and she pointed out a big building up on a hill. She told me that was the bronx va hospital and then she said something that i have never forgotten. She said there were still men in that hospital who had never recovered from being gassed in the First World War. And this made quite an impression on a seven or 8yearold me. Even though i was a small child i knew enough about world war i to know that it happened a really really long time ago. 60 years at that point and it really struck me that there were men who had lived entire lifetime since then still frail from what they had endured in that war. I didnt know very much about the war at all. I knew what it was about. Pretty much i knew that snape u.
[applause] thank you. That was a wonderful introduction. I started this book back in 2003 so its been a a tenyear odyssey but the seed for this book was actually planted many years earlier. It was back in the mid1970s when i was seven or eight years old. There was a day till i grew up in Westchester County new york a suburb just west of the city and the son of a history buff but unlike a lot of people who make that claim the history buff in my family is not my father. Its my mother and of her four children i seem to be the only one she passed the gene onto. She took advantage of that one day we were driving into the city from westchester and she pointed at a big building up on a hill. She told me that was the bronx va hospital and then she said something i have never forgotten. She said that there were still men in that hospital who had never recovered from being gassed in the First World War. This made quite an impression on the seven or 8yearold even though i was a small child. I kno
The Métis Cultural Festival in Choteau June 7-9 brought far-flung families together to celebrate the food, traditions and music of these descendants of European trappers and traders who intermarried with
indication of the state of our wireless network in the country so spectrum crunch for wireless network appears to be very real and people want something done about it. .. our communicators series from the consumer electronics show in las vegas continues next week. to watch this and past communicators online, go to c-span.org/communicators. next on book tv henry louis gates jr. presents a history of african-americans in the united states to the present day. this is about 40 minutes good evening. is upon? it is. i couldn t tell. welcome to the atlanta history center. i m president and ceo of the history center. we are delighted you are here this evening. please, join us on december 15th a couple of nights from now and the 20 if as we celebrate the season with two evenings of a new program we call holiday spirit. this is a new interactive holiday program, which i think he will be delighted with to purchase tickets or for more information as they say, please visit our web site
think you were right when you said the question is protection against use of the information, not suppression of the information. i ll give you an example. a lot ofú> the conversation has been, well, um, you can protect yourself. you actually can t protect yourself because anybody can put up information that we would normally consider private, and we don t want to suppress that because we don t want to suppress freedom of speech. by way of example, one of my class mates from years before any of this has scanned letters and photos and so forth from high school and put it on the, put it on the web. now, should [inaudible] yes. [inaudible] [laughter] actually, i ve read them all because [laughter] i m sure you re always very professional. likewise, even these kids, the photos they put up may be put up by one of their friends, not by them. and i do think that facebook and these other services have made changes in the last year, very important changes in the ri