You are watching by tv. Next thomas ricks looks at why so many world war ii era generals are held in high regard while history is not than suband a general sick amanda troops during later wars. Its a little over an hour. Good evening everyone. Welcome and thank you for joining us. My name is Richard Konte and im the president of the center for no america security. Its a pleasure to welcome you here to celebrate the publication of senior fellow thomas ricks book the new generals American Military command from world war ii to today. Speaking of books, we have some for sale so if youre interested it will be on sale after the event. I already picked up on which i see some of you have in the ballroom lobby. Thomas ricks has been a member of of the family for quite a while serving as a senior fellow at the center. Tom writes a widely read blog called the best defense which won the 2000 National Award for best blog of the year. He is wellknown for his book fiasco the American Military adventu
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Please wait until you get it so the cameras will be able to pick up the audio. Being young during that time, in my studies at school when i was getting my phd we talked to a lot of wives who lost their husbands in the current wars. What did the home front what did the men and women do when a neighbor or a friend got news they lost a husband . Are you speaking to me . Anybody on the panel. Oh. I lost Three Friends in the war. One, his ship was bombed and split in half. And he was asleep on the bottom deck at that time. And the other one, jerrys plane was bombed and of course, they were all killed on the plane. And then ben worked at firestone with me. And i always felt so bad that he enlisted because he was all that his mother had. He had no reason to enlist. He wouldnt have had to but he did anyway. And he was all she had and he didnt come home. I guess i was one of the lucky ones. My fiance came home and we got to be married and had three children. Thats one. Another question for the