19 1918 armistice that ended world war i. Up next on american artifacts, historian Mitchell Yockelson and french battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan guide us to several key locations in northeastern france, including place wheres hearry truman, an others had life experiences. We have an unexploded 75 millimeter ar till rear shell on the floor of the Argonne Forest. This is about an hour. Were standing in front of the pennsylvania monument dead indicat dedicated in 1927 to honor the veterans of pennsylvania many of them in the 28th National Guard division that were directly involved with liberating the town that was in the 407 day meuse argonne operation that involved the doughboys. You grew up not far from him. Is it easy to say you explored these battlefields on many occasions as a young manned and today as a battlefield guide . Yes, indeed. I was born in the small town around 15 miles away from here. And i grew up close by the Argonne Forest, so always walking in the forest when i was
14,246 americans are buried outside a quiet village in northeastern france at the meuseargonne American Cemetery. I American History tv visited there with french battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan and historian mitchell a. Yockelson to learn about the 47 they world war one battle that ended with the armistice november 11 1918 and resulted in over 26,000 american deaths. There are more than 14,200 graves here. Many of them who died in meuseargonne American Cemetery area. But there are also some civilians another soldiers that were brought from other areas . Yes. Most of the soldiers here died at the meuseargonne. 96,000 wounded more or less. Almost half percent of the soldiers are buried here in front of that cemetery. We have few civilians. Maybe we will see some of the graves later on. Especially nurses, people from the american red cross, from the ymca also. Special graves that we will see walking in the graveyard. The cemetery itself were graves that were consolidated from smaller c
From 1981 to 1989. And were going to show you this evening, two speeches. His 1981 inaugural address, which was on the west front of the capitol. A first in this address, he declared that government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem. After that, well show you. His 1984 dday address at ten duhok in france. This was the 40th anniversary of dday. And he spoke of the sacrifices made by american servicemen. This is speeches that defined the presidency on American History. Tv. Governor, are you prepared to take the constitutional. I am. If you place your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear. I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and i will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States. And will, to the best of my ability. And will to the best of my ability. Preserve, protect and defend. Preserve, protect a
And welcome back to American History tv and our special series speeches that define the presidency. This week, our focus is on ronald reagan. President reagan was in office from 1981 to 1989. And were going to show you this evening, two speeches. His 1981 inaugural address, which was on the west front of the capitol. A first in this address, he declared that government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem. After that, well show you. His 1984 dday address at ten duhok in france. This was the 40th anniversary of dday. And he spoke of the sacrifices made by american servicemen. This is speeches that defined the presidency on American History. Tv. Governor, are you prepared to take the constitutional. I am. If you place your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, ronald reagan, do solemnly swear. I, ronald reagan, do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and i will faithfully exe
Scholars. For seven years he directed operation homecoming and taught therapeutic writing workshops during their deployment on domestic basis of his humanities in Higher Education over the wall street journal. And other outlets east co hes edited and essay collection. Hello, so glad you are here. It is my distinct honor to introduce into interview jeff his new book which i will note signing is at 3 00 p. M. And i think you will want to be here after you hear this. Jeff is well known to us. He has signed many of his books here in the state. Ofhe is the author of more than5 New York Times bestsellers. Certainly other books that come to mind his New Historical novel the old line about Teddy Roosevelt. And rather than read the standard bio i thought we have known each other for about 20 years younger we could say. I think it was just mentioned u. S. Government project operationre homecoming will work with our troops in afghanistan. As they were rotating in and out of the war. Helping them