Killed homer the origins of the west and what happened to history. He is the martin and Ellie Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution focusing on classics and military history. He is also the wayne and marcia buskey distinguished visiting fellow in history at Hillsdale College and he combines the very rare ability to be one of the foremost scholars in his field of classics, but also to be a popular pundant who regularly appears on fox news and rights of weekly column with National Review as well as american greatness. He has received a ba in classics from university of california santa cruz. He was a fellow at the American School of classical studies in athens and received his phd from the university of stanford and his book the dying citizen how progressive elites tribalism and globalization are destroying the idea of america is this years conservative book of the year. Please join me in welcoming, dr. Victor david hansen. Can you hear me . Okay. I might have been. The first
Its my honor to invite the keynoter speaker tonight. Doctor hansen is a longtime friend and a faculty associate going all the way back to the d90s. Asua i mentioned earlier, he actually wrote a book in 2002 called bonfire of the humanities rescuing the classics and an impoverished age. He also lectured the students on who killed homer the origins of the west and what happens to history. Hes the senior fellow at the Hoover Institution focusing on classics and military history. Hes also the fellow in history at Hillsdale College and the rare ability for the classics and also to be a popular abundant whoar regularly appears on fox news and writes a weekly column with National Review as greatness. Hes received the classics from the university of santa cruise and was a fellow at the school of studies in athens from the phd of the university of stanford and his book the dying citizen and the globalization are destroying the idea of america. Doctor victor davis hanson. [applause] can you hear
Please wait until you get it so the cameras will be able to pick up the audio. Being young during that time, in my studies at school when i was getting my phd we talked to a lot of wives who lost their husbands in the current wars. What did the home front what did the men and women do when a neighbor or a friend got news they lost a husband . Are you speaking to me . Anybody on the panel. Oh. I lost Three Friends in the war. One, his ship was bombed and split in half. And he was asleep on the bottom deck at that time. And the other one, jerrys plane was bombed and of course, they were all killed on the plane. And then ben worked at firestone with me. And i always felt so bad that he enlisted because he was all that his mother had. He had no reason to enlist. He wouldnt have had to but he did anyway. And he was all she had and he didnt come home. I guess i was one of the lucky ones. My fiance came home and we got to be married and had three children. Thats one. Another question for the
To be married and we had three children. Of course, theres one. Another question for the panel . This question is for mrs. Olson and mrs. Snyder. I heard the toughest job is an army wife. How do you feel about that . Do you feel that . Or a marine wife. When he got home, we were married in three weeks after he got home. The war was still going on, he got to come home because of what he had been through, so thats why we were sent to camp leje e lejeune. We lived there on base for almost a year almost two years i think, we lived on base and it was one of the most fun times of my life. I could walk to the ocean, the grocery store, even though we lived in a what today they call a travel trailer. Thats what all the married marines lived in. I had to learn to cook on a camp stove, i had to pump up a little tank on the front of it. I had some wonderful times. I had marine friends and families, the whole base was family mostly and we had some lifelong friends we made there. Actually, it was a
Speakers lecture series. Its an hour and 40 minutes. Thanks so much for inviting me to be with you and for joining me on this gorgeous new york morning. This is the third presentation ive given in this fantastic auditorium at the New York Historical society in just over a year. And all i can say is you folks are gluttons for punishment. Were going to talk about the second world war. I was just in normandy for the 70th anniversary of dday. And that campaign certainly has taken center stage this spring just as it has in our National Narrative about the liberation of europe since june 6th, 1944, when it permanently eclipsed the dramatic prorks tracted, sanguinary struggle in italy. Well try to bring that italian war back into focus a bit. I have two confessions. First, i have not seen the movie paizon which showed last night. I have not seen it. If you have questions about it, i am not your man. Secondly, ill talk mostly about the campaign in italy up through the fall of rome. The war goe