We are a volunteer City Committee that promotes educational and Cultural Exchange between the city of kahn and normandy and the city of alexandria here in virginia. This is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of dday. Tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. Holian. For our 12th annual dday commemoration lecture dr. Kim bernard holian was a professional historian with the us army for 34 years where he received commendations from the late John Marshall secretary of the army and president ronald reagan. He is the recipient of the 2008 joseph l harsh history award for the Northern Virginia association of historians and the clover recipient of the 2016 T Michael Miller alexandria history award from the alexandria historical society. His father served in the Us Army Medical as a medical officer during the Second World War and took care of many dday wounded on their return to england later serving under president Dwight Eisenhowers medical s
Of alexandria here in virginia. This is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of dday. Tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. Holian. For our 12th annual dday commemoration lecture dr. Kim bernard holian was a professional historian with the us army for 34 years where he received commendations from the late John Marshall secretary of the army and president ronald reagan. He is the recipient of the 2008 joseph l harsh history award for the Northern Virginia association of historians and the clover recipient of the 2016 T Michael Miller alexandria history award from the alexandria historical society. His father served in the Us Army Medical as a medical officer during the Second World War and took care of many dday wounded on their return to england later serving under president Dwight Eisenhowers medical staff. We were fortunate to have dr. Holian. Join us as a lecturer last year and in 2019. Tonight dr. Holian will speak on patton and
Kahn and normandy and the city of alexandria here in virginia. This is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of dday. Tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. Holian. For our 12th annual dday commemoration lecture dr. Kim bernard holian was a professional historian with the us army for 34 years where he received commendations from the late John Marshall secretary of the army and president ronald reagan. He is the recipient of the 2008 joseph l harsh history award for the Northern Virginia association of historians and the clover recipient of the 2016 T Michael Miller alexandria history award from the alexandria historical society. His father served in the Us Army Medical as a medical officer during the Second World War and took care of many dday wounded on their return to england later serving under president Dwight Eisenhowers medical staff. We were fortunate to have dr. Holian. Join us as a lecturer last year and in 2019. Tonight dr. H
Kahn and normandy and the city of alexandria here in virginia. This is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of dday. Tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. Holian. For our 12th annual dday commemoration lecture dr. Kim bernard holian was a professional historian with the us army for 34 years where he received commendations from the late John Marshall secretary of the army and president ronald reagan. He is the recipient of the 2008 joseph l harsh history award for the Northern Virginia association of historians and the clover recipient of the 2016 T Michael Miller alexandria history award from the alexandria historical society. His father served in the Us Army Medical as a medical officer during the Second World War and took care of many dday wounded on their return to england later serving under president Dwight Eisenhowers medical staff. We were fortunate to have dr. Holian. Join us as a lecturer last year and in 2019. Tonight dr. H
My only regret i missed this summers laopito and ill try to come back and catch it. I bring with me the friendship of the American People and im honored to be the first president of the United States to deliver an address to the people of estonia. I had an opportunity to meet with the president s of all the Baltic States and i thank president of latvia and lithuania for being here. We are joined by friends from throughout the region and i want to say a special welcome to everyone watching this out in Freedom Square and im especially pleased to see so many young people here today, because, like oscar, you are fulfilling the dream that your parents and grandparents struggled for but could only imagine, and that is living your lives in free and independent and democratic baltic nations. That dream of freedom endured through centuries of occupation and oppression. It blossomed in independence, only to have it stolen by foreign pacs and secret protocols. It survived the mass deportations th