Winston groom will talk and rear about half an hour and then take questions for 15 or 20 minutes more. We encourage questions, we just need you to ask them from the microphone over here both so everyone can be involved and also for our cspan awed yes, sir. Its great to audience. Its great to welcome kin son bloom winston bloom back to washington d. C. Histories including a storm in flanders, shiloh 1862 and tonights book, the generals. One of Winston Grooms gifts is his ability to flesh out the characters of these three influential but different leaders, giving us insights regarding how their experiences shaped their personalities and choices in the Second World War. Another gift is style, so please welcome Winston Groom. [applause] first, id like to thank everybody for coming out to hear me on this lovely saturday afternoon in washington d. C. I have been on a book tour now for a couple of weeks. Ive learned something about what people want to know. One of the first questions im usual
For 14 years and a pastor for 24 years. Pinckney was also a family man, husband to wife, jennifer, for 15 years and had two daughters. Reverend pinckney and 8 other Church Members were killed by a gunman at a bible study on june 17th, 2015. The shooters goal was to start a race war in america with his horrific actions. Many believe this tragedy had the opposite effect. The fact that so many of us came together and people across the nation do not believe we here in the south, particularly charleston, theres no racial tension and theres togetherness. I believe this, too. I feel so much at peace here. Love is going to conquer all. Evil is not going to win in the end. I have such confidence in our love for each other. Nothing is happening other than i would love to see this happen more often, not in the wake of tragedy. President obama delivered the eulogy at his funeral. People are standing together to mend racial tensions in response to the tragedy, mother emanuel established the pinckne
Reverend pinckney and 8 other Church Members were killed by a gunman at a bible study on june 17th, 2020. Thth shoooors goal waso start a race war in america with his horrific actions. Many believe this tragedy had the opposite effect. The fact that so many of us came together and people across the nation do not believe we here in the south, particularly charleston, theres no racial tension and theres togetherness. I believe this, too. I feel so much at peacece here. I feel so much at ease. Love is going to conquer all. Evil is not going to win in the end. I have such confidence in our nothing is happening other than i would love to see this happen more often, not in the wake of tragedy. President obama delivered the eulogy at his funeral. People are standing together to mend racial tensions in response to the tragedy, mother emanuel established the pinckney scholarship fund. The Charleston School district approved a new middle school to be named Simmons Pinckney middle school and in h
Buffalo where weve been chasing these animals the last couple of days, actually the last 16 days. lloyd yateman weve actually battled a little bit with the buffalos; weve had murphys law against us. We spent a lot of time at malapate looking for these, and like you said, we spent two full days on this buffalo and it kept outsmarting us. We tried to ambush them a few times getting ahead of them and theyd always change their mind at the last minute and take a different route. And hes got a nice one. If you can see that curls on his horns, the way they are curled back, and a good sized boss. Hes a beautiful animal. buck mcneely oh, there really is lot of character in these horns, like you said, a nice deep curve and then nicely finished tips here. This was the dominant bull of the herd. lloyd yateman yeah, oh it definitely was. He you shot him in the right spot. buck mcneely you had confidence in me, you said do it, and then thats 416 dropping right on the spot, couple of insurance shots
It as it was more than just what we saw. I believe that we should be diligent as well as be alert. There e there is evilness in this world. There are persons who are struggling, whether its mentally, whether its hate, but we cant deny the fact that theres evil and hate and racism. We cant ignore those things. Even if i choose to forgive someone, im definitely not at the point of forgetting. Im not there yet. You know, for those of us that read the bible and watch the great movies that have changed the course of history where sometimes families and villages and communities have been sacrificed because there was a greater good that needed to take place, this is this story is biblical in proportion. You just cannot ignore the gravity of this story and why it happened and we say everything happens for a reason. But its certainly i it woul bene of the greatest movies ever told when you tell this story and the Ripple Effect it had around theworld. Were going to come back with cousin grace an