Tories, who didnt support the revolution sided with the british, were killed or driven off their lands, and on and on through american hoyt, as each immigrant group was kind of pulled into the country for labor, the chinese to build the railroads, the eastern europeans for the steel industry. Northern europeans for farming. And we knew all along there was great deal of hatred, prejudice that they werent like us, until they were us. And all of the people in this room come from those people. So, it is happening again and again, and i ten to write books a second question how was it . How would you like living in a horse stable in santa anita for months and then being transferred into tar paper shacks without plumbing, without heat without cooking facilities. In the most warren parts of america where the ten Relocation Centers were places no one ever lived before or ever would again. Tulie lake in california, is a lava bed. Manzanar was built on the driedup remains of owen valley of owens
Winter tor museum. Wonderful. Well it is exciting to be here today. This really grew from just an idea that lisa had to maybe just do a little talk on flag day and then we realized that in fact there were three flags being stored here and one in the collection of the museum of the American Revolution two that are the property of an anonymous, very generous owner and lender who has consented to have them on display for this afternoon. So this is an extraordinary opportunity. Im not sure there is anywhere else on the planet why you can stand in the room and be in the presence of three banners of liberty from the American Revolution. So congratulations to all of you for not going to the beach this weekend or not mowing the grass in the hot weather and choosing to come and sit in the dark with me for about np hour. I would like to start actually with an exercise to get you to think about the role that flags play and the images you have in your minds eye about the American Revolution. And s
Test. Test. How much of cadeta do we really get . Do we break the hard and concrete shelters or not . Theres advanced concrete which we worry about during the cold war. We have that issue and then revisit with higher missile rates because they cant tell whether they got the base or not. Discussion among the marine corps these days about why cant we in our air force proliferate the number of air ways in saipan and other places. Cadena but sh. Our aircraft could be one of six bases. You dont know which ones because we knocked out your satellites. To make sure you get the aircraft, take six spaces, not one but can focus on the base we know we have the aircraft and ignore the other bases. Drives up their costs because now they have no realize not only do they hit all six bases but assume all of our Missile Defenses are concentrated on that one base. And again, this involves multiple kinds of technologies all brought together and not just boost phase intercept and thats important, not just,
Can everybody hear me okay . It is my pleasure to welcome you to this Evenings Program a revolutionary look at american history. First let me take a moment to ask you to silence any electronics you have with you. As you may have noticed we have some bright lights in here this evening because our friends at cspan are filming so when we go to the q a portion we will make a line that is in the front because of the filming from cspan. For those that might be joining for the first time in equally warm welcome and i would encourage you to take out the programming offered by the smithsonian. We are pleased to welcome larry who received his phd from the history of science and technology from Imperial College london who teaches history at George Mason University in virginia and the Stevens Institute of technology in new jersey who served 35 years in the u. S. Navy to make u. S. Coast guard and the department of defense and was an exchange engineer in the french navy. The author of three books t
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