Generation. The stories of word war 2. You can enhance your lessons and have a more personal understanding of what these gentleman and their compatriots have been through to get here today. We know that the gentlemen here in front of us, and the other events that we do, we have a short time to tect to them and understand them and the fact that they made it through one of the most significant experiences in history. We also want to make sure that erin everyone in the audience can ask questions that you will find valuable in your classrooms. Ly probably step forward to make sure i can hear you properly, repeat the question so the audience can hear, and the cspan audience can hear, and the honor res can hear as well. First to the left, in the handsome red blazer, charles mcgee. He was in the United States air force for 30 years. He holds a record 409 fighter combat missions flown in korea and vietnam. To his left, who i met on my very First World War ii event, he landed on the beach in no
Heros with, our veterans of world war ii. And we thank them for joining us this morning. My name is mike hydeck. Im honored to be here with friends of the world war ii memorial. And the foundation. Im the morning anchor at wusa channel 9 here in washington, d. C. And the goal of this discussion is to hopefully share some of their most personal stories from our greatest generation. The thought being their emotional firstperson accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons, hopefully, and had a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their come patriots have gone through to make it here today. We know that the gentlemen sitting here in front of us and the is other events we do honoring world war ii veterans, we have a short time to connect with them and understand they made it through one of the most horrific experiences in the world history. Its amazing that theyre sitt
Thank you for your patient. We got a little bit of a late start. Were going to have a great session this morning. Im the morning anchor. At the cbs affiliate here in washington, d. C. Im honored to be back as a moderator of the teachers conference. We did it last year as well. This is a very special occasion. Had a chance to meet some of these gentlemen. Im meeting some new friends this morning as well. Before we get under way and we honor our greatest generation and well go over the goals on what wed like to try to get done this morning, i would like to call up, before we get started, chairman of the friends of the World War Ii National memorial Josiah Bunting iii to say a few things. [ applause ] our greatest ally and most famous ally during the Second World War was winston churchill. Who famously said succeeding generations must not be allowed to forget their sacrifice and their example. And to me the beauty and the urgency of assemblies like this was people like this. Is in fulfill
She lives and works in tempe. Where she is the founder and artistic director of essential theater. She has taught nonfiction classes at her estate universities studio and directed creative writing programs for incarcerated youth and at a federal prison for women outside of phoenix. She has also raised her family here. As a matter of fact her daughter was once a junior staffer in our kids section. She was the darling of the kids not only for her love of looks but also for her personal winning smile much like her mothers. So you can see susan and her family have been one of our regular patrons and readers for many years now and one of our dearest friends. So for many years we have known about the book she has been working on diligently, quietly. The topic is so big and important yet sensitive and heavy hearted and off that it had not been properly dealt with until now upon the 70th Year Anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on sunday. The story had been untold. In nagasaki life
For his great support which and night which allowed us to invite so many historians to New York Historical kit i would like to recognize and thank some of our trustees with us this evening. Mr. Michaelkett and weissberg. Thank you so very much for all you do. On our behalf. All ofo like you thank our Chairmans Council members who are with us this evening and of course my very talented colleague, dale gregory, our Vice President for public programs. Lastevenings program will about an hour, and it will include a question and answer session. You should have received a note card and pencil as you enter the auditorium this evening. If not, colleagues are going up and down the aisles with them. The no cards with your questions will be collected later on in the program. We are thrilled to welcome Josiah Bunting iii back to the New York Historical society. Prior to retirement in 2016, he served as president of the Guggenheim Foundation in new york city, and is the former superintendent of the