Aisle. Begin lining up now i would recommend if you have questions. While they do that and do not filibuster the answers. While we do that, we will cost this over to let her asked the first question. I want to get one thing out of the way. It is a question on everyones mind. I would like a yes or no answer. You can solve this today finally. Are the packers going to go all the way . Speaker ryan heck yeah they are. Absolutely. [laughter] [applause] stop asking him. Speaker ryan we need a tight end and then we are good. I agree. I was covering the youth vote for over a decade and it was not long ago that i was a youth voter. If you talk to young voters like i do, youll hear a similar complaint that over the years, democrats have paid her two pandered to young voters and republicans have ignored them altogether. Why should the millennials in this room, the largest generation in history, and millennials all over the country think that they are going to do anything different . Speaker ryan
Always worse. That is not just true in this country. It is not a black or white thing. Go to any country where the give and take of democracy has been repealed by one party rolls, and oneparty rule and i will show you a country that does not work. Democracy requires compromise, even when you are 100 right. This is hard to explain sometimes. You can be completely right and you still have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you will not get what you want. If you do not get what you want long enough, you will eventually think the whole system is rigged. That will lead to more cynicism and less participation and a downward spiral of more injustice, anger and despair. And that has never been a source of progress. That is how we cheat ourselves of progress. We remember dr. Kings soaring oratory. The power of his letter from a birmingh
Professor han there is no shortage of photographs, for example. Important thing is the merit date, when and where and who. If korean war veterans comes with that kind of picture so we can put the meta data, because its a database thats searchable, so we need the meta data and if photographs come with this information, we first choose those. Bill what about other things on the website, in terms of youve got photographs, oral history interviews, what else is on there . Professor han there are many writings about the korean war, and also we are trying to connect with the young generations, because there is a tremendous lesson out of the korean war, so we are trying to connect with the young generation using online social media. So were using facebook, twitter, instagram, constantly introducing pictures and artifacts to younger generations. One more important thing, in American History textbook, there are only one paragraphs covering about the korean war. In this workshop that i invited th
I told you there are 2 million people. So Big Community. And also there are many, many korean americans here and also americans who are aware of the importance of the korean war. So these, i think, this is a Big Community that Korean People can have in the United States and they are very, very supportive and proud of what korea has produced. So this is a Big Community. Bill we have a couple of minutes left. Lets go back to the photographs on the website, part of the database, and what you said is the start of the whole idea of seeing the photographs of veterans. How do you judge what to put on the website . You said you dont want the dramatic theme ones, the military actions, but the everyday shots. Professor han there is no shortage of photographs, for example. Important thing is the merit date, when and where and who. If korean war veterans comes with that kind of picture so we can put the meta data, because its a database thats searchable, so we need the meta data and if photographs
Very easy to focus on the grand battles of the war but this is a part that people need to know about. This is a part that affected civilians. This is a part that affected the people back home. And in many ways what happened in galveston and in texas was typical of what happened across the south. Particularly in seaports that were blockaded during the war. There was a continual, there was a continual Union Federal Navy Presence offshore, there were regular bombardments of the town. There was, you know excitement when a blockade runner would arrive. But its and there was lots of hardship. Lots of they did without a great deal. But it is, its something that people need to know about. Its another aspect of the war thats maybe not as heroic not as dramatic. Its part of the war thats very hard to glorify but its an important part of the war because it represents, it represents life as lived by a lot of people 150 years ago. For more information on booktvs recent visit to galveston, texas, an