Basketball with in high school, a businessman who helped me on the way up, a firefighter i did blood drives with. One of the bloodiest days on american soil since the civil war. Each year we pause to remember that awful day. We mourn those we lost. We also recognize in the aftermath of september 11 the resiliency of the american people. The resiliency of new yorkers. Shown through one of the darkest hours in our country. Looking back things are difficult even after 18 years i read my book through the city of new york at least fifth or lisixth street is named after a firefighter or Police Officer who died in parts of brooklyn bay ridge places like that. I will never forget the day after when president bush sent to senator clinton and i to go up to new york and we were the only planes in the sky. An airliner to have us surrounded by f a18s f16s. We landed and went down to the site. The smell of death and burning flesh in the air. A thousand people lined up no one knew who had lived and w
Flight 93 who laid down their lives to protect their fellow americans. Vietnam m veterans and Morgan Stanley security chief rick russ groff. Who successfully evacuated more than 2000 of his firms employees from the World Trade Center and died returning to help evacuate others. Jason thomas and dave carnes two former marines who dropped everything and sped to the towers saved lives of the two Port Authority officers they found trapped in the rubble. National guard pilots Heather Penney and mark sasso who scrambled their f16 weaponless to meet the threat headed toward dc prepared to sacrifice their lives by ramming their aircraft into flight 93 before it hit the capital or the white house. The hundreds of First Responders who ran toward the towers, toward the inferno, and headed up the steps while civilians ran down. Then there were the countless ordinary americans far from new york and washington and overwhelmed organizations like the red cross with their donations who stormed heaven wi
Continuing to be gracious host. This is our fifth year producing this series, and your attendance is testimony to its success, said thank you very much. It is my distinct honor to introduce dr. Faulkner, one of the primary historians of the American Experience in world war i. He is a graduate of that other university of kansas that i will not mention, but as the author of two books of the American Experience in world war i, the first call the school of hard knocks about, experience and the second, which was just published called pershings crusaders, a detailed examination of 1917 and 1918, and you are about to get a presentation on some of the challenges they faced when they arrived in france about how to get across that protected area so they could get to the enemy and force a decision. Please join me in welcoming dr. Faulkner. [applause] show less dr. Faulker good afternoon. I would like to thank the Dole Institute for providing me an opportunity to lecture and for their continued su
Symbol i symbolize a challenge to racial identities. This is about an hour and a half. All right. So let me just remind you where we are in our ongoing narrative of Mexican American history. Last week we talked a lot about 1910 and the mexican revolution and the dramatic changes that this made for the mexicanorigin folk on the northern side of the border. This week we are going to begin discussion of our third flash point in the course, which is 1943, really as a standin for world war ii. If you recall, at the end of last week we had been discussing those millionplus mexican migrants who moved north of the border into the United States, many of them hundreds of thousands of them and their children settling in the south western United States, california, texas and elsewhere. We discussed their experiences, their trials and tribulations, what they lived there in the 1920s and the 1930s and the great depression. I mentioned a couple of times, and well be spending most of today discussing
Cease fire in their economic showdown as they continue working toward a deal. And as the president hopes to make progress on that front, there are questions whether the offer to meet kim jong un could jumpstart another pivotal matter, the talks to denuclearize north korea. Were going to the dmz. While im there, ill shake his hand. We get along. Theres been no nuclear tests, theres been no long range ballistic tests, gave us back our hostages which was great and a lot of good things are happening over there. So i let him know well be there and well see. Arthel White House Correspondent kevin cork is traveling with the president and he is live in seoul. What time is it there, kevin, do you know . Reporter it is 3 01 in the morning and, yes, i could use a little red bull. The world awaits. Were all wondering whether or not the president will in fact meet with the leader of north korea in the dmz. Well find out together here, not terribly long from now, in a you fefew hours. Thats the big