Jeremiah good morning, everybody. I want to start off by thanking the American Veteran center for this spectacular series of events, and for their Wonderful Service to our country. I also am so impressed with the quality of the young people here today. These young, high potential military leaders inspire confidence in me as a father of four with three grandkids in terms of the future of my kids and grandkids in this country. I also am very appreciative of a special group of the initiative that are here today. Having come from across the country. You have no doubt seen the formal side of peter cuneo in his bio in your program. As a leading turnaround expert, if you go to forbes. Com, they say he is top 10 up there was steve jobs and others. His most notable turnaround was marvel entertainment, which he took out of bankruptcy and sold to disney nine years later for 4. 5 billion. Anybody here a fan of marvel . Every hand. I want to share briefly little more on the personal side, having ha
We aim to be the best of the best and we volunteered to be the best of the best. When you volunteered for rangers, what changed from your training as a regular army soldier . Aonard i have to go to ranger school, to begin with, that specialized in many things regular troops do not have to submit to. It is altogether different, a specialized field, a specialized mission, and you have to cope and train for that mission or whatever it may be. When did you actually Enter Service . June of at was in 1940 two. Right after pearl harbor. Your first combat action, was that in normandy . Leonard my first combat action, yes. About,dont you tell me from your training in the states , tell me about your trip over to england and the preparation you made for the normandy invasion. Lomell i have to tell you that from my point of view, because i dont think the troops of which i was a part of had any knowledge, advanced knowledge, that dday would be our first combat. ,e were ready for combat then but the
Training as a regular army soldier . Mr. Lomell i have to go to a ranger school, to begin with, that specialized in many things regular troops do not have to submit to. It is altogether different, a specialized field, a specialized mission, and you have to cope and train for that mission or whatever it may be. When did you actually Enter Service . Mr. Lomell that was in june of 1942. Right after pearl harbor. Your first combat action, was that in normandy . Mr. Lomell my first combat action, yes. Why dont you tell me about, from your training in the states, tell me about your trip over to england and the preparation you made for the normandy invasion. Mr. Lomell i have to tell you that from my point of view, because i dont think the troops of which i was a part of had any knowledge, advanced knowledge, that dday would be our first combat. We were ready for combat then, but they were going to give us specialized training, so the training i got after i entered the rangers was generalized
I may say, of the extent to which that history is being taught in our schools and colleges. Particularly in our schools. The ignorance of the history of our country and particularly of its military history is being widely ignored and thats got to be fixed. And one of the best people to fix it, of course, is our speaker this morning, alex kershaw. We feel in this 75th year of the anniversary of dday, particularly close to what we call the greatest generation, on memorial day we honored americans who had paid the supreme sacrifice in all of our wars. But weve always felt a particular closeness to what we call the greatest generation many of whom are slowly passing from the scene. Steven ambrose, biographer said the quality of character that we impute to them is one which has grown increasingly rare in our culture. Namely, modesty. More than one of these gentlemen is said to me that when people thank him for his service, he is embarrassed. He thanks them for their thanks. But what else wo
Thousand communities centers to create wifi enabled students from low income families can get the tools they need to be ck for anything. What comcast, along with these Television Companies supports cspan 2 as a public service. Welcome back to American History tv and our special series, speeches that defined the president. This week, our focus is on ronald reagan, president reagan was an office from 1981 until 1989. We are gonna show you this evening to speeches. His 1981 inaugural address which is on the west front of the capitol. In this address, he declared that government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem. After that, we will show you his 1984 d day address at Pointe Du Hoc in france. The 40th anniversary of dday. He spoke of the sacrifices made by american serviceman. These are speeches that to find the presidency on american tv. [applause] governor, are you prepared to take the constitutional oath . I am. Place your left hand on the bible, reserve a, hu