Chair. Thell turn it over to manual introduce our chairman of the board. Hello everyone. It is not nice to see so many people here celebrating best 261st0 birthday. Augmenting interpretive programming there. Special thanks to david callan and nizam of American Finance staff for host into this program. This is the seventh year where we partnered with both exhibits. We think museum for that. Cspans American History tv continues is valuable role in sharing the key historical record nationwide. Three initiatives have happened in the last year in part of celebrating hiltons birthday to ensure a more accurate understanding of who he was. Hamiltons birthday. The city tavern in philadelphia, that had all of the Founding Fathers except for him, that has been remedied. Another moment in june of last year, hamilton was inducted into the new york state writers hall of fame. And major news for the first time to be announced publicly. New discoveries related to Alexander Hamiltons life are now being
The jewish right to be a tenenbaum from a lot of different days who is the director of the Washington Office at pepperdine as well as a number of pepperdine in. We are excited to have you here tonight. Also delighted to have ejb here tonight. Some of you might know in the far back we had to shut down registration, have a full house. If he wanted to have friends here who wanted to come and couldnt, well be recording tonight and posting the video to our side and www. Tts. Org or you can add your comment as well as check out based the page and twitter feed for video photographs and comments as well. For those of you who are familiar with the Trinity Forum we were to provide space and resources for the discussion of lifes greatest questions in the context of faith. We do this by providing ratings and publications which draw upon the classic works of literature and letters to connect the timeless wisdom with 10 issues of the day appeared as well as programs such as the one tonight to connec
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Im oliver north. Welcome aboard the ss jeremiah. Now in San Francisco harbor. The obrian is the only its the only unaltered operational survivor of the normandy invasion. They were up against the formidable enemy. Tonight youll meet one of those who stopped to send this ship and others like her to the bottom. This is the story of Unsung Heroes who served in every theater from the invasion on north africa to the landings on dday. Youll see tonight they paid a price in blood to be called veterans. Over 700 merchant ships were sunk and 1 of every 16 merchant mariners were killed. Thats a higher casualty ratio than any of our armed services. This is the story of the United States merchant marine. 1939 america was still recovering from the Great Depression and money was hard to come back. A gallon of milk cost 51 cent and the average income was 1,266. People were desperate for work. They came from small towns in port cities. They were old men and young boys. Some had been sailing their whol