The child this as a pandemic was raging through the world i mean it really kind of defines any kind of sensibility go ahead alex or i think its i think thats right i mean its completely well actionable thats not to say that the chinese did everything perfectly its the problem as that you know og governments in britain and the United States had reacted for all this and i was just reading an extraordinary article that look in the london times cataloguing the fact that for 38 days the British Government was basically on equal completely on the gauge with the problem and all Prime Minister Boris Johnson skipped. Crawling cyst meetings to discuss this so you know what do you do when youre failing when people thousands of people all dying when your hospitals are overflowing and when you dont have enough. Protective equipment all closing for hospital stuff what you have in britain you blame outsiders and you blame china because of course china is the great rival and competitor and its also sh
Every soldier with a man by his side. In wartime and in peace, the wartime carries on. Healing and rehabilitating the sick and wounded and seeking out disease vectors to prevent, detect, and control epidemics. The medical department was a far flung department of laboratories from north, south, east, and west. Diseases new to the army doctor that they were being encountered. Methods of treatment and control had to be developed. Extreme heat and cold produced problems that were a challenge to the medical department and their laboratories. Laboratory organization which followed the armies to every distant outpost were the Surgeon Generals office. Although they were concerned with every a aspect, they were concerned about the medical service. The personnel and supply services, the Army Medical Department research and graduate school and the Army Institute of pathology. These organizations represented the coordinated effort. The first big job was the felt units and technical personnel. Over
A neighbor of mine who was an expert in terms of accessing the internet did the research for me. Lets back up for a minute. You said you are from brooklyn, new york . Did you were you raised and grew up in brooklyn . Harold the first 11 years of my life, i spent in brooklyn. Then my father retired and we spent time in a town called monticello. That is where you went to school . Harold that is where i went to junior high and high school. It is in my notes as i go along here. Do you have any brothers or sisters . Harold one brother who is deceased. I came from a small town called monticello at the foothill of the catskill mountains. Monticello was approximately 90 miles from new york city. I was inducted in the army in 1944, shortly after graduating high school. I was 18 years old. Other inductees and i traveled by bus to fort dix, new jersey, where we were processed. When the processing was complete, we were put on a train and we were sent to camp crop, south carolina, outside of sparta
Relive your history every night, American History tv on cspan3. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Welcome to the u. S. Holocaust memorial museum. Im daniel greene. We decided on our 25th anniversary to look closely at americans role in the history. That goes back to our founding charter. Which mandated that the museum look closely as americans role in this history. In fact, on the day we opened, the chairman of the board at the time said, this museum is not an answer. Its a question. What we wanted to do in this exhibition is ask difficult questions about americans response to naziism. The questions that frame this exhibition are, what did americans know and what more could have been done . You will see throughout the exhibition that what we try to do is show the context of American History that shaped americans responses to naziism. That context includes our isolationism in the aftermath of world war i. Xenophobia, fear of immigrants
Obviously, i could do this privately and i have but i would like to say a public thank you to terry for her support for her advice over the years, including many good topics, suggestions, and if you are here you will know she is responsible for the beach boys, and all sorts of others we have enjoyed over the years thanks to her suggestions. So terry, would you please stand up . [applause] tonights speaker, claire l. Evans, has achieved notable success in two disparate fields, both as a musician and as a writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conceptual pop group yacht, and has recently returned from a tour in europe with that group. But it is her second career as an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. And in that regard, she is the former futures editor of motherboard and a contributor to vice, the guardian, and wired, among other publications. She is, for example, the Founding Editor of terraform, vices sciencefiction chro