That he was able to share it and one of the last things that he wrote as a free man was also one of his most beautiful. And it was talking about sitting with friends in the camp, knowing that they were going to be executed the next day and then reflecting to him that a great regret in life was that they hadnt shared more with those that they loved and that was pileckis final thought as a free man and i would, if i could see him i would just want to ask him whether he felt that he could at that point connect with his family again. I think everyone has had experience of stress and turmoil in their lives. We know how to disassociate in that can be and how that can drive wedges between those we love and i would love to think that there was the possibility of redemption. I think pilecki was opposite of that in his final moments and may be something we can take away from his story on right now looking at the q and a, the questions that have been raised and speaking out, if thats okay i will
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The last archives shes also won numerous awards for her books including International Bestseller eaves truths, the history of the united states. Her next book is how the cybernetics preparation and better the future will be published in september 2020. Speaking to her today about the volatile times and how the coronavirus pandemic will go down in history as my colleague john haskell director of the john w flutie center of the library of congress. Its a great pleasure to welcome you to National Book festival presents. Hello jill, its good to have you with us despite the circumstances. Thanks, its nice to be here, or better to be there but its nice to be with you. Some pieces he written recently help us sort through this new and confusing time including the fascinating piece in the new yorker on what you call contagion tables. What are the earlier works in this genre a i would like to say what a pleasure it is to speak at the National Book festival and on behalf of the library of congres
You can also send us a text, that number 202 7488003. Please include your name or where you are from. Therwise on social media a very good thursday morning. You can start calling you now. To let you know where we are on capitol hill, the houses and at 9 00 a. M. Eastern, the senate is in at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. President trump headed to wisconsin to participate in a town hall and visit a shipbuilding firm. We do not know when that promised executive order on mound events and statues will on monuments and statues will come but the president had plenty to say at the white house yesterday. [video clip] we will have a strong executive order. We have the monuments act, which means 10 years in jail. We will have a strong executive order, i should have that by the end of the week. We will have a very powerful statement. We have arrested numerous people for what took place outside of washington. In addition, the fbi is investigating hundreds of people throughout the country for what they have
Tattered historian about Civil War Soldier nutrition and hygiene. He describes what type of food would have been in the rations, how they might have cooked it, and access items like to take and toilet paper. The National Museum of civil war medicine provided his video. Thank you all for joining in with us. We are here with the tattered historian himself, i great friend. I just want to get in a little bit before we dive into the topic we are covering today which is hygiene and nutrition Civil War Soldiers, can you tell us a little bit about who you are, what you bring to the History Table . I think you bring a unique perspective and some great ideas. Thank you. Istarted out as a historian, earned my ba from Shippensburg University of pennsylvania and i went on one side the u. S. Army corps of engineers as an archivist. About a year into that i began the tattooed historian on facebook. I used it as a way to showcase some of the archival things we were finding, and i was really enjoying t