Good morning, money is jane droppa and the proud mother of a world war ii veteran, victory over japan day. Or vj day the allied victories in the pacific in the end of world war ii, the deadliest conflict in Human History. 75 years have passed since millions of people around the globe celebrated the end of world war ii. Thank you for joining us to celebrate our world war ii veterans who served overseas. All of those who served on the home front and our allies who together helped defeat tyranny, preserve freedom and literally save the world. The front of the National World war two memoriam your friends online commemorations is a Small Nonprofit Organization Whose Mission is to honor and preserve the National Memory of world war ii, and to create the next greatest generation of tomorrow. The ceremonies taking place throughout the day today are part of the friends for a year world war ii 75th anniversary commemoration, which began on pearl harbor day 2016. Friends is the only organization
Fact in paying tribute to Dwight Eisenhower, we celebrate greatness. When we think of his place in history, we think inevitably of the other giants of those days of world war ii. And we think of the qualities of greatness and what his work that made his unique among all. Once, perhaps without intending to do so, he himself put his finger on it. It was 1945, shortly after veday at a ceremony in londons historic hall. The triumphant Supreme Commander of the allied forces in europe was officially given the freedom of the city of london. In an address that day, Dwight Eisenhower said, i come from the heart of america. He did come from the heart of america. Not only from its geographical heart, but from its spiritual heart. Dwight eisenhower touched something fundamental in america, which only a man of immense force of mind and spirit could have brought so vibrantly alive. He was the product of americas soil and ideals, driven by a compulsion to do right and to do well. A man of deep faith
A 30 minute tour of the memorial. Following that, we talked to Washington Post art and architecture critic to learn about the debates over the design and to hear his thoughts on the architect and the completed work. I am victoria, the deputy executive director of the eisenhower memorial commission. We are here tonight in washington, d. C. , at the northwest corner of the new president ial memorial fridge dwight d. Eisenhower. This story starts about a thousand miles west of washington, d. C. , in abilene, texas kansas. Moved to abilene, kansas, when he was a toddler, and he stayed there through high school. I want to direct your view to inscribed on this wall. Ended,rld war ii eisenhower came home to abilene and was given a heros welcome. In a very humble way, he started talking about not that he was a hero but what he dreamed of doing when he was a young boy. Proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. I come here first and thank you and to say the proudest thing i can claim
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and human services, education, and related agencies will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today to provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on covid19. As we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country, we know that 195,961 americans have died as part of the pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. Pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this has been like trying
This was germany, a beautiful country. A historic country. A prosperous country a modern country. The german people, a clean and tidy people. An educated people. A musical people. An industrys people. These people look all right. The mailman. The farmer, the cup, they are pretty much looking for his back home. Holding down jobs, raising families, enjoying life. They certainly look like the kind of people we can understand. Or can we . A quiet decent people who prepared 20 years to bring war into the world. A religious people who burned churches, persecute the faithful. A kindly people who accept blood purchase, concentration camps. A gentle people who tortured, starved, exterminate. These were men, they died in german concentration camps. These two were men. They didnt quite die. These bones were men, women and terminate children sent to be exterminated in a german camp. This is a scientifically designed gas chamber. This is a furnace. These, the childrens toys, carefully collected for