[applause] ladies and gentleman it is a pleasure to welcome you to the Heritage Foundation and a the first event in the preserve the constitution series and running through november i will say more about that later ron. It is appropriate and on and sunday to commemorate the day when 7087 the representatives of 12 states so this Constitution Day is second only to for the july. I say that because of 177656 men signed the declaration of independence and pledge to each other their lives and fortunes and sacred honor. So in the war for independence some of them lost their lives many of them lost their fortunes but none of them ever lost theirou sacred honor. R families m in their sacrifices that they have made to ultimately make possible a new nation. D but what they accomplished with the declaration of independence the job was not yet finished because they have to establish a government that was still preserve the of liberty at great cost and that is why some of the original signers of the
Was about 45 minutes. Thank you, kelly, and want to thank the Veterans Affairs Medical Center here in cincinnati and the allwomens American Legion post 644 for making it possible for me to be here today. And i want to make a special thank you to booktv for helping us spread the word about the longburied treasure of americas military women. This program has given us an opportunity to tell you about a National Treasure which has been all but completely absent with leave from americas historical memory. Even when United States history was required as a summit in high school and subject in the high school and colleges and many universities, textbooks and courses had very little to say about women, how they had contributed to the winning of world war i, world war ii, the wars in korea and vietnam. As a writing team of a nurse and a psychologist, coauthor dr. Evelyn monahan, we have a combined 50 years of experience with the department of Veterans Affairs. Now, you may be as surprised as we
Culture. This is an hour and 45 minutes. [ applause ] all right. This is going to make me cry so come on, sit down. Geez, i was just going to say thank you, hard core folks. You know, im really pleased to welcome you to this session, but before i do that let me just say how unbelievably honored we at the smithsonian are that so many of you are here and that all of you that participate in this conference, the papers have been brilliant. We have learned so much, and i just want to let you know how much it means to all of the smithsonian that youre here. So thank all of you so much. I appreciate that. So my job today is to welcome you to the session with that was voted the session with the most unwieldy name. History, preservation, public reckoning in museums, which is translated to mean this panel will grapple with issues and challenges that flow from working at the intersection of history and memory, or put in another way this panel will look at what happens when the past meets the pres
Culture. This is an hour and 45 minutes. [ applause ] all right. This is going to make me cry so come on, sit down. Geez, i was just going to say thank you, hard core folks. You know, im really pleased to welcome you to this session, but before i do that let me just say how unbelievably honored we at the smithsonian are that so many of you are here and that all of you that participate in this conference, the papers have been brilliant. We have learned so much, and i just want to let you know how much it means to all of the smithsonian that youre here. So thank all of you so much. I appreciate that. So my job today is to welcome you to the session with that was voted the session with the most unwieldy name. History, preservation, public reckoning in museums, which is translated to mean this panel will grapple with issues and challenges that flow from working at the intersection of history and memory, or put in another way this panel will look at what happens when the past meets the pres
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