Author series and we always like to mention our sponsor, we bring this to you with the generous sport of the Strake Foundation and couldnt do it without them so thank you. The many have been to the events we know we have a tradition at the mumz. May i ask are there any world war ii veterans or home front workers in the audience tonight . If you would please stand and be wave. Two. [ applause ] thanks, folks. You know, ive heard the president and ceo nick mueller and Steven Watson say this many times we built this museum for you so thank you for coming to the events. Military veterans of any other era . If you would stand or wave and please we always know thats a a large number. I love the waves. People give different forms of waves. I like that one. Thank you so much. Now we would also like to acknowledge three special guests in the audience. A current board member robert prity. There he is. Robert, good to see you thank you for coming. And past Board Members debra lindsey. And dr. Mic
Around the time of the inauguration of 2001, whether or not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. The texas book is full. He said there isnt yet there will be. So we came up with the idea of how to put together a National Book festival, the idea was to put it into a normal, intense. It turned out that getting sponsorships was more difficult than they had thought it would be. So he asked me if i would get involved. I told him i would do so. I began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event. I did that now for maybe ten years or so. Its very important to me that the book festival does well and i enjoyed a great deal. Its really great gift for the country to have this National Book festival as you probably know we can about 200,000 people coming on the day of the festival every year. This year is going to be labor day weekend. The saturday of labor day weekend. Peter slen what is the madison counsel that you reference. David rubenstein the lib
Executive director of the intuit for the study of war and democracy. Tonight is the latest installment of our meet the author series and we always like to mention our sponsor, we bring this to you with the generous sport of the Strake Foundation and couldnt do it without them so thank you. Many of the events we know we have a tradition at the mumz. May i ask are there any world war ii veterans or home front workers in the audience tonight . If you would please stand and and waved too. [ applause ] thanks, folks. You know, ive heard the president and ceo nick mueller and Steven Watson say this many times we built this museum for you. So thank you for coming to these events. Military veterans of any other era . If you would stand or wave and please we always know thats a a large number. [ applause ] i love the waves. People give different forms of waves here. Thats good. I like that one. Thank you so much. Now we would also like to acknowledge three special guests in the audience. A curr
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the National World War Ii Museum. All of those of you sitting here and to those watching on the live stream, i know you are out there and with us in spirit and we feel your presence too. As many of you probably no dr. Rob satino im here at the museum and executive direct of the institute for the study of war and democracy. Tonight is the latest installment of our meet the author series and we always like to mention our sponsor we bring this to you with the generous sport of the Strake Foundation and couldnt do it without them thank you. The many have been to the events we know we have a tradition at the mumz. May i ask are there any world war ii veterans or home front workers in the audience tonight . If you would please stand and be wave. Two. [ applause ] thanks, folks. You know, ive heard the president and ceo nick mueller and Steven Watson say this many times we built this museum for you thp thank you for coming to the events. Military veterans of
Which could not have been endessful if it did not 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. Left,e on the panel to my heflin, melmily heflin, melmilton 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 graduating in tennessee, just outside the appalachian poverty zone. I could not wait to get here because i needed to make some money. [laughte