It was a dramatic first. The first time in American Naval history that women were assigned to the crew of a ship. On a soggy november 18, 1972, at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in california the uss sanctuary was recommissioned. The first woman admiral elaine dirk gave the commissioning address. The sanctuary is being recommissioned as a new and unusual type of ship with a new mission to assist the navy effort to improve moral and flexibility by home porting combatant ships overseas to provide medical and Resale Services to deploy dependents wherever the fleet may be assigned. In addition to this forward step the sanctuary has been selected as the ship to participate in the Pilot Program which will evaluate the utilization of women for sharp board duty. It will be home for about 80 women, half in the crew and half at the hospital. With these innovations you could see that the sanctuary is truly unique in many respects. The sanctuary is an experiment to see how well women and men can tog
It was a dramatic first, the first time in navy history women wear assigned it the crew of a ship. In 1972, at Hunters Point naval shipyard, in california, the uss sanctuary was recommissioned. The navys first woman admiral gave the commissioning address. The sanctuary is being recommissioned as a new, unusual type of ship with a new mission to assist the efforts to improve morale and flexibility by home boarding compact and ships overseas. It will provide services to deploy dependence wherever the fleet is assigned. In addition to this forward step, the sanctuary has also been accepted as the ship to be dissipated in the pilot program, which will evaluate the utilization of women for ship or duty. It will be home for about 80 women, half in the crew and half at the hospital. With these innovations, you can see the sanctuary is truly unique in many respects. The sanctuary is an experiment to see how well women and men can Work Together at sea. It is also a symbol of the navys changing
Professor here at the school and director of partnerships for international strategies. This is the program here but partners directly with universities and researchers and state suits across asia. And since 1994, weve had extensive work with universities and research. And in Government Agencies and ngos in vietnam. Would love to be able to also bring the voices of the region here. To washington. This week is devoted to waging peace in vietnam. It is especially acknowledge the partnership with the institute of policy studies. And their associates fellow ron carver. [applause]. We will hear from him in a moment. Today at many locations around the nation news capital, the service of veterans to our country is recognized with gratitude. We also remember that november 11th, 1st marked the day the gun fell silent you wrote. And what is known then as the great war and was supposed to be a war end all wars. And it jet succeeding generations, men and women have been enrolled in military servic
The army and we are at the womens memorial in arlington cemetery. Its the only major memorial thats dedicated to women who served their country. We have over 3 million women who have worn the uniform of the United States. This memorial was dedicated in 1997. Over 40,000 people lined memorial avenue from the bridge to the memorial. Women from world war i through the current times in 1997. The memorial is on 4. 2 acres of park service land. Behind me, though, you can see the head stones of Arlington National cemetery and that surrounds the park service land. The memorial is composed of the Education Center, a court of valor, terrorists that has glass tablets with quotations about women and by women. Theres a pool where we have ceremonies on especially memorial day for women who have fallen. There is a line going from the Lincoln Memorial. You can see it as it comes up Memorial Drive with stones. As it goes through our memorial up to our fountain and through the memorial, there are black
Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Now on American History tv, a look at the ways american women contributed to the war effort during world war ii. We hear about the expectations for women on the home front to write letters to soldiers, plant Victory Gardens and work in factories and what options were available to women for military service. This is 90 minutes. Fpz well, good to see everybody today. I appreciate you coming to our space here. Today, were going to talk about american women and world war ii. And this is obviously a huge topic, we can spend an entire semester just on this topic alone. So were going to try to break it down into three different spaces and were going to look at a lot of images to kind of fit in with the other things weve talked about. So we are going to talk about american women in three ways. Were going to talk about women at home. Women at work. And women at war. So were going to kind of organize our ideas this way, and again were going to look at