Please stand and be recognized if you could from any other era. [applause] we have an Incredible Group of friends with us tonight. Cspan is here filming tonights event. I want you all to be on your best behavior. Cspan is forever. Paul, stand one more time. [applause] and ted is here with our friends from california. He has been involved with the Summer Teacher Institute and now the guy on the site for all things specific. Graduating from the university of missouri after which he served four years in u. S. Army during the vietnam war as a platoon leader of the 101st airborne division. Then graduated from the georgetown law center. I met him on History Channel shoot. I thought he was already pretty famous. I wasnt i thought he was 200 percent nice to me then he had to be. He is an expert in his field he make sure you become an expert in the field. Hes a compelling speaker but also one of the nicest people anyone has ever met and thats the best thing of all. Tonight he will be speaking a
Good evening, everyone. Im robert citino, executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy here at the National World War Ii Museum. Thank you. Thank you to the museum for hiring me. I appreciate that. Every two weeks i appreciate it. Im also the samuel Senior Historian at the museum which is perhaps my proudest boast. Welcome to another installment of our meet the authors heres here at the museum where we bring you the best new world war ii literature and the men and women who write and create it. For i have just two nights, a man who needs no introduction, let me carry out the tradition of the National World War Ii Museum at all all of public programming. Are there by any chance any world war ii veterans or homefront workers in the audience tonight . There we go. All right. I knew there were two right up front. [applause] and to say we thank you for your service is an understatement of the century. In the veterans of any other service or any other era please sta
Thank you for hiring me. I appreciate that. Every two weeks. I appreciated pretty. Im also the samuels Senior Historian at the museum which is perhaps my proudest post. Welcome to another installment of our author series will we bring you the best world war ii literature and the men and women who create it. People tonight author, the truly needs no introduction, we carry out that tradition. Any chance are there any veterans in the audience tonight. There we go. [applause]. I knew there were some. [applause]. To say that we thank you for your services is an understatement of the century. Any veterans of any other service or any other era, please stand and be recognized if you would. [applause]. Wonderful. And again, thanks to all of you for your support and service. We have an Incredible Group of friends with us here tonight in the museum. Cspan, the good folks from cspan are here filming the event printed that is always wonderful that wanted to be under your best behavior. Because cspa
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