Weekend. I encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans at the battle of midway 75 years ago through the 75 years of American Military history. This is your own past and present and future so this is a great opportunity and a onceinalifetime opportunity to make the most of it. I would like to welcome admiral frank thorp to say a few words of welcome. Welcome to the navy memorial. As you all know, our mission here is to honor, recognize, and celebrate the men and women of the sea services, past present and future, and to educate the American Public about your service. It is a tremendous honor for us to be here and on a day like today, we use the term sea services, but we are all in it together. These gentlemen represent the idea of being in it together. I want to say one thing about why i am honored and why we are honored to be here today and the opportunity you have today. When i looked at the program here, and i look at words like trailblazers, legends, these
Welcome and thank you for being here. This is our 20th year of the event. E are very happy you are here we want to thank the Navy Memorial for their hospitality for this weekend. Theyve been great partners over the years. My only word i have to kick things off is for all of the students that are with us this weekend. I encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans at the battle of midway through the 75 years of American Military history. This is your own past and present and future so this is a great opportunity and a onceinalifetime opportunity to make the most of it. I would like to welcome admiral tonk admiral frank thorp say a few words of welcome. Welcome to the Navy Memorial. Honor,sion here is to recognize, and celebrate the men services,of the sea past present and future, and to educate the American Public about your service. It is a tremendous honor for us to be here and on a day like today, we use the term sea services, but we are all in it together.
The American Veteran center. Welcome and thank you for being here. This is our 20th year of the event. It is a very special year for us, and we are very happy you are here. We want to thank the Navy Memorial for their hospitality for this weekend. Theyve been great partners over the years. My only word i have to kick things off is for all of the students that are with us this weekend. I encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans at the battle of midway 75 years ago through the 75 years of American Military history. This is your own past and present and future so this is a great opportunity and a onceinalifetime opportunity to make the most of it. I would like to welcome admiral frank thorp to say a few words of welcome. Thorp good morning. Welcome to the Navy Memorial. Our mission here is to honor, recognize, and celebrate the men and women of the sea services, past, present, and future, and to educate the American Public about your service. It is a tremendo
Memorial, great partners. My thing to kick things off with all the students with us this weekend, i really encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans of the battle of midway 75 years ago through 45 years of American Military history. This is our past and your future and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Make the most of it. Id like to welcome admiral frank thorpe to say a few words of welcome before we get started. Good morning. Welcome to the navy memorial. As you all know, our mission here is to honor, recognize and celebrate the men and women of the sea services, past, present and future. And to educate the American Public about your service. Its actually a tremendous honor for us to be here. On a day like today we use the term sea services. Were all in it together. I think these gentleman right here represent the idea of being all in it together. I want to say one thing why were honored and the opportunity you have today. When i look at words lik
I want to say one thing why were honored and the opportunity you have today. When i look at words like trail blazers legends, the last ace, the medal of honor, why we fought, valor, witness to history, and right here, the turn of the tide. It is an honor to be here. I hope you get a lot out the next couple of days, as was just mentioned this is the opportunity of a lifetime that we have to listen to these great americans who set an example and paved a path for us to walk on. Welcome to the navy memorial. I hope you appreciate the hospitality. When i say that, i hope we make it as great as we can be to make your experience as great as it can be in the next two days. I will welcome craig to introduce the next panel. Good morning. My name is craig horn. This morning, we will begin an adventure so when we look back we can see further ahead. Its often been said ignorance of the past can create irresponsibility in the present. Its my pleasure to introduce richard b. Frank, an internationally