Channel one, the premiere of a documentary film jump from space. On november 1, 1962, a closed military Training Ground near volsk, saratov region, three oclock in the morning local time, but as bright as day , final preparations are underway for a topsecret experiment codenamed star. The names of the paratroopers, colonel pyotr dolgov and major Evgeny Andreev , the first in the world to jump from the stratosphere , will be classified, for a long 40 years, while everything passes, nothing portends. Troubles at dawn begin to consider a hundredmeter balloon from a wolf, consisting of a shell with a volume of more than 72,000 cubic meters. This is approximately the size of a twoaccess fivestory building, a suspension is attached to it. Everything together weighs almost that when the wolf reaches a height of 30 km, 36yearold colonel Evgeny Andreev will be the first to eject . Falling from speed of 900 km h, it will be in free fall for 4 minutes 30 seconds after flying more than 20 km. Only
These preholiday days, work collectives, students, senior officials, representatives of different generations come to the memorials to lay flowers and bow their heads in a minute of silence. Memorials located in the minsk region are surrounded by flowers these days. So in the city in the village of radashkovicha they were laid today at the foot of the mass grave, where more than 250 military personnel and partisans of the great patriotic war were buried. There are two kazakh surnames on the long list to honor the hero. We paid tribute to the memory when i studied at the faculty of general staff, now i have returned to a military post, i would like to say thank you to the residents of belarus of this village, the village council, which keeps the graves in such an exemplary state, eternal memory. Everyone who died on this land, and here not only the kazakhs were, all nations and nationalities. And today, employees of the Kazakhstan Embassy in our country visited School Number two in rdas
The second time addressing the members of the press club was in support of the documentary film brothers at war. And a third time as john said four years ago, when we first launched the foundation. So i guess i havent burned any bridges at the press club yet. You keep asking me back. I would like to speak today about how far the foundation has come in those four years with the work the foundation is doing and what the future looks like as we continue to grow and i would like to emphasize how important it is to have nonprofits in the military support space as the military men and women continue to confront the dark forces of this world on many fun with long and many fronts with long and very tough deployment. At first i would like to acknowledge a few people here today, one of our board members. Thank you for coming. I appreciate you being here. [applause] i have a very distinguished guest that john introduced, a friend of mine that is here today, general livingston was awarded the Unit
In france, i had two uncles in world war ii. My dad served in the navy on my wifes side, her brothers served in vietnam. I learned much from them. It is really the vietnam side that opened my eyes in the late 70s and early 80s because by that time the time i was old enough to absorb things as a young teenager, the family members on my side were well beyond their service. I dont remember my grandfather ever talking about world war i. I dont remember my uncle talking about world war ii until i started doing this work in the and then i would take him everywhere and give him talk. He would spend memorial day at the concert. He unfortunately passed away. This past october. As did my brother in law who was a combat that in vietnam. Stayed in the army for 22 years. I learned so much from him and so much from my wifes two brothers. Theyve really got me thinking and so i got involved in the Vietnam Veterans groups in the 80s and in the chicago area supporting them. So, ten years later, i had an
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