I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I welcome all our attendees. We have several members. Several uniformed members which is always good to see. Several people from the foreign court, distinguished guests. I would like to acknowledge first hour sponsors. From Lockheed Martin we are by retired navy captain robbie harris. Textron systems is represented here. We have a stellar program. We have refreshments next door. Take advantage of that. Our speakers will allow for questions today. Attentiveybody to be to the idea that we use the microphones. That we useant those so people can hear your questions, and also for the people beaming in can hear your questions which is important. I thank you for that. I ask that you get to your question because we have a lot of folks here today. It is my honor to introduced our first speaker, our keynote speake
Of weapons that we have, not to glorify war but to show that we were prepared under the eisenhower years. One particular phrase,iz ize eisenhower complained when truman called him back, with a he was helping truman get his chestnuts out of fire. And reagan is going to use that same expression and he only would have gotten that through discussions with Dwight Eisenhower. Where did we take a recent course. In recent days theres been smiles in the kremlin. Theyve been warm and friendly. But i wonder if theyre smiling or if theyre laughing at us. Were now ready to talk a Nuclear Weapon treaty that will stop us from protecting our cities as theirs are already protected. Russian weapons are killing our young men and raining down on the innocent civilians of saigon. But our National Leaders indicate that they believe we can enter into a treaty in spite of the fact that this other nation has already broken more than 50 treaties with this country and has indicated that it believes it is its rig
Going to go down as a result of the refugee overflow. So a story being written. Priscilla gaines. I work a lot with professionals to deal with abuse. He said part of building resiliency is learning how to fail successfully. I love that. Could you talk a little bit about the youth and building resiliency through the parents and educators . Absolutely. I think we really do need to redefine what skills our Education System is trying to train for. Walter spoke eloquently in the last session about science and humanities and all of those. Obviously im an educator and i believe that all of those are critical but we need to teach our children how to cope successfully, how to fail more safely how to draw outside the lines, not just draw inside the lines. Our Education System is often focused on learning how to draw inside the lines. I think now i hope through this book and her other books that educators particularly in k12 will be thinking about that because we are losing our integration capaci
Nation. The National Museum of the u. S. Navy hosted this hourlong program. It is my pleasure to welcome to the program. Yesterday, we observed the 73rd anniversary of the attack at pearl harbor. Today, we continue that observance with histories from two men who lived the experience. In all of our lives, there are some things that are inevitable that we remember. 9 11, the assassination of john kennedy, and for older americans, the attack on pearl harbor is one of those things you never forget where you were what you were doing, and what happened on that day. The events of december 7, 19 41, certainly changed us individually, our parents, our country. Today we are going to talk with two speakers, both were young men on that fateful day. I want them to provide memories of the attack and how it changed their lives and our allies as a nation. Their perspective our lives as a nation. Their perspective is from washington, d. C. And illinois. Our first guest is john warner who served his cou