White house fellow. During the vietnam war he was shot down by ground fire answers the injured and captured and spent six and half years as a pow. Kim after a long career in the force he has positions in civic business organizations and also the president and ceo of chicago united way and a founder and chair sos america. With the Church Organization advocating military service for americas young men. And is in high demand across the nation. To talk about his book taps on the walls poems from the hanoi hilton give a welcome to Major General borling. [applause] that was a pretty good introduction. Are you wondering if this guy will be any good or not. [laughter] thank you for coming. You had a flight line those of the patriot writers of washington to make sure we dont forget. As is a new tradition for town hall please stand as the present the colors the knobs of top turner a late. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america into the republic for which it stands , one
good afternoon. welcome to the library of congress. i am john cole, the director of the center for the book in the library of congress which is the reading and book promotion arm of the library. we are very pleased to be cosponsoring this program with the libraries photographs division. it was created to help the library of congress we are private public partnership with the library of congress but indeed we have raised private funding from the beginning to help support our array of programs and projects. the center for the books are in every state and i know we have a broad audience today and i challenge you to look up and learn about the center for the book that promotes reading and libraries. here at the library of congress, one of our major projects is the national book festival which i hope many of you know about, the library of congress project involved in many parts of the library and it s in its 14th year coming up in and this year or be held on the natio
farber. this is 40 minutes. good afternoon. welcome to the library of congress. i am john cole, the director of the center for the book in the library of congress which is the reading and book promotion arm of the library. we are very pleased to be cosponsoring this program with the libraries photographs division. it was created to help the library of congress we are private public partnership with the library of congress but indeed we have raised private funding from the beginning to help support our array of programs and projects. the center for the books are in every state and i know we have a broad audience today and i challenge you to look up and learn about the center for the book that promotes reading and libraries. here at the library of congress, one of our major projects is the national book festival which i hope many of you know about, the library of congress project involved in many parts of the library and it s in its 14th year coming up in and this year or be
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retired major general john borling is next on booktv. he shares husband experiences and the poetry he mentally composed and memory rised during his six-and-a-half year imprison ment at the hanoi hilton. this is about an hour, 15 minutes. john borling is a highly decorated retired air force major general who has served in high-level staff positions. fighter pilot, he graduated from the naval academy and was a white house fellow. during the vietnam war, he was shot down by ground fire, seriously injured. he was captured while trying to evade and spent over six-and-a-half years as a p.o.w. in hanoi. after a long career in the air force, he now occupies leadership positions in business organizations including symphonics and assent explo nation. he s also been the president and ceo of chicago s united way and is also the founder of sos america, service over self, advocating military service for america s young men. a motivational, political, business and philosophy speaker, he