Symposium director and the director for the peace and war center. At the universities and Global Resilience Center for global insecurities and the peace and war center and in the initiative for the university. The 2020 military writers award. We would like to mention a couple of details before i introduced hiintroducing and wet the award. For those of you that are not familiar with the award we created a special video that provides context and background to the award from the previous recipients and we ask that you go to the website. The link to the website has been put out on chat and take a couple of minutes after the presentation to watch the video we would also like to ask you go to the page in the military writers symposium website. You will see theyve given an introduction to the symposium this is why we are doing some of the things we are doing right now in this particular theme. As you can imagine this is the inaugural event virtually we bring the guests and authors here to the
Write that the military saved your life. What do you mean by that . Guest i think the military plate and a currently Important Role in my life where some of the most important types of my life have not been when i was wearing a suit that was when i i was wearing the uniform for this country. I was first introduced to the military system actually when i was 13. I was sent to a military school. I i had a mandatory year in military school, and i got into some issues, some challenges and when i was younger my mom was threatening to send the way to militaryy school ever since i ws eight years old and every year she said i will send you away at a cap on blowing her off. The first time i felt handcuffs on the wrist was when i was 11. My mother noticed i was intentionally hurting people that actually loved me. So i i could oppress people that could care less about me. Finally one day she said im going to send you to military school. And honestly i thought she was getting or exaggerating. And t
Host thank you for being here. I mentioned that you are the help secretary and you are a member of congress because they give you incredible insight and think on how to deal with the coronavirus early on. You declared statewide Health Emergency on march 11th when there were only four cases in your state. But as you see that push you to move so quickly. Two things, you know that money. Rus is so it comes with travelers. I was still dealing with people traveling on a cruise in california an adult with the pandemic before. In the earlier you start, the more aggressively you start the better control and management efforts you have. This is the problem because you cant see the pandemic. Everyone i think falsely assumes that it wont come here. And wean will wait until we see what is happening. And for too many it is easier to explain pretty have to move immediately. Otherwise it rages out of control. We have seen it all across the country now. Jonathon in a followup. He said the through pend
Information. Here is Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen thank you forfo coming out on yet another rainy day in kentucky. Let me take a moment to ask you to check your cell phone and make sure it is turned off. Thank you for coming out today to another historic moment and history here at the university ofy louisville. There is a number of distinguished guest in thehe audience if you feel that i would think that you are distinguished then that is the case. Ou[laughter] but i do owe an introduction and the appreciation to the president of louisville. [applause] thank you for bringing her today out in the rain. This is the historic moment for the Mcconnell Center i was thinking of the roman statesman of all time in his book it seems that if we live in a free society we have duties it seems to me is to remember to learn from our past from the rising generation the two authors today have done that and then these over the last week at the Mcconnell Center
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