The 40th annual american book awards. I say it is very appropriate that we are holding this ceremony on the day of the dead. In San Francisco. And in california, and at the end of the west. Not just geographically mind you, you go any further west, you are in the east. Far east. So just this last month, afghanistan turned 18. I say its you say is going to vote . Congressional budget for every 24 hours the war cost hundred and 74 million. So in a city named for st. Francis, who city fathers and mothers now treated citizens as if they were merely detritus of capitalism, is trying these big two. And if state named for a black lesbian amazon clean of the islamic faith took up on that, but these are just the names that we know right now. Because there are monday names for this place became long before any of us were here and there will be monday names to come. In fact the origin of those names came from a group of people who arrived from youre up are increasingly starting to up here within
Of us who are lightest friends will forever remember him but you, will remember him most. Every time the sun flashes on our face and warms us, we will miss elijah. You will miss him most. We loved him, but you would come to love him most. Please accept is you see, collective condolence of a whole host of americans who share this moment in front of tv strings and radios it will take this moment and teach in schools actually and who will share it with their own children. [applause] our prayers go out to his siblings, to his children, to all of those who were related to elijah. I said to me, now if you go before i go dont get up there and wing it. [laughter] [applause] he said write it down. Then he said, no really write it down. [applause] so here we are. His words of these, i think i know. The houses in the village. He will not see me stopping me here to watch his woods filled with snow. Yes those woods, are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep. And miles to go before i sle
Im going morning. My friend, president obama, president clinton, Vice President biden, secretary of state clinton, governor hogan, mary jack young, distinguished clergy and all of the people suggested all over the place and ladies and gentlemen miya, those of us who are lightest friends will forever remember him but you, will remember him most. Every time the sun flashes on our face and warms us, we will miss elijah. You will miss him most. We loved him, but you would come to love him most. Please accept is you see, collective condolence of a whole host of americans who share this moment in front of tv strings and radios it will take this moment and teach in schools actually and who will share it with their own children. [applause] our prayers go out to his siblings, to his children, to all of those who were related to elijah. I said to me, now if you go before i go dont get up there and wing it. [laughter] [applause] he said write it down. Then he said, no really write it down. [appla
Appreciate the significance and the scope of the effort of the Apollo Program. Which could not have been successful if it did [speaking foreign language] not end successfully. The panel we have today is the panel on command module landing and recovery operations. They always say the job is not over until the paperwork is finished. The job is not over until the spacecraft is floating in the Pacific Ocean and the astronauts are successfully retrieved. We have with us four heroes of that era, people i looked up to and admired as a 14yearold watching on television back in 1969, and i wished i could be with them in the Pacific Ocean helping to retrieve those astronauts. We have on the panel to my left, denny holt, mily heflin, mel richmond milton heflin, mel richmond, and terry watson. I will open it up to questions from the audience. It us started. Tell us a little bit about who you are, how you got to be involved in this business, what you did for apollo. I got here in june of 1967 after
Discover. The i. Subscribe to the documentary on. This weekend world stories. Mexico mison journey is murdering women. In the hospitals are on the brink this time we start out in germany. She is one of the few remaining Holocaust Survivors she passed through 2 concentration camps now shes been honored with a German National priors. She is one of the last Holocaust Survivors alive today i need to lascaux wolfish was deported to the auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 by then the nazis had already murdered her parents. There waiting to be put in the gas chambers it was a situation that was it was in you know very difficult to describe to people nowadays who live more or less normal lives it was music that safe classical wolfish life a talented chalo player she was chosen to play in the auschwitz womens orchestra lascaux wolfish has now been recognized for her relentless fight against antisemitism with the German National price the award honors does have strengthened the bonds between ge