His time in wyoming. The library of congress is the host of this event. Welcome to the eskin family. To all of you, the eskins who are so generous to make this program possible. Marsha, barney, and lee. Welcome to all of you. Thank you for being here. And welcome to all our young visitors from Washington Area schools. So nice to have you here. And welcome, of course, to the cspan audience that is will be watching this in the future. Who among you has never been in this library . Okay. Quite a few of you. Well, in the event you havent been in this building before, welcome to the Worlds Largest library. The greatest and most extensive Cultural Institution on the planet. The nations very own, your very own library of congress. It was founded in 1800, not long after the founding of this country. It was conceived as a place that would furnish congress and the American Government with the information it needed as it carried out its duties of representing all of us. Initially the library was
Up to another Record Number of covid19 cases, just one of the states doing that. The World Health Organization says, it has seen a record rise in cases globally in the past 24 hours. We will have the latest from florida and talk to an e. R. Doctor about what he is seeing on the front lines right now. Later in our sunday spotlight, with professional sports ready to return, College Football confronts coronavirus on campus. Will those powerhouse schools play their games this fall . Will those passionate fans be there to see them . In our sunday closer, the exceptional Youth Theater Group that is getting resourceful to put on shakespeare during a pandemic. Later, braa sitdown with charlize shetheron, her thought about this moment in america and the stress of solo home schooling her two children. We had one kid downtestairs d the other upstairs. The other one could have burnt the house down. The other one upstairs was complaining about what a terrible math teacher i was. A sunday sitdown wi
To the Worlds Largest live every. The greatest and most extensive Cultural Institution on the planet. The nations very own, your very own library of congress. Founded in 1800, not long after the founding of this country. It was conceived as a place that would furnish congress and the American Government with the information and need as it carried out duties of representing all of us. Initially the library was housed in the u. S. Capitol which sits across the street from here. In 1813, the british army invaded washington and the Capital Building caught fire. It was engulfed in the flames. All the libraries books were burned to ashes. Thomas jefferson who owned the largest collection of books in the country at the ate, 7000 volumes sitting his house, offered to sell the books to refill the library shelves. Congress jumped at the chance and now you can see jeffersons own book, those original volumes, sitting at the heart of this building. Since the arrival of those books , 6487 of them, t
Before we do now as we call off each crirn, they will stand and well have old glory, the flag thats been taken around the world, presented to each one of them and theyll be saluted for their service. Presenting the flags is a father and son team, jason atiri from the national defense. Iversity and his son r. Garnett h. Hammond. Mr. Hammond enlisted in the u. S. Army reserves Officers Training corps while attending howard university, as an army soldier, he served in the you apparent theater in world war ii serving in england, france, and germany and was a tech 5 sergeant and served as a mail clerk until receiving an Honorable Discharge in 1946. After the war, mr. Hammond worked as the United States National Postal museum in washington, d. C. For 35 years. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Garnett h. Hammond. Second is mrs. Burt bresher, serving with a woman accepted for volunteer emergency service, the waves, a unit of the United States naval reserve, mrs. Dresser was stationed as pontiff point
They will be saluted for their service. Nting the flex is a presenting the flags is a father and son team from the National Defense university. As an army soldier, he served in the theater of operations during world war ii, serving in england, france, and germany. He was a sergeant and served as a mail clerk until receiving an Honorable Discharge in 1946. After the war, he worked as a u. S. Postal museum in washington dc for 35 years. [applause] second, a woman serving with Overture Service waves, the unit of the u. S. Naval reserve. She was stationed at rhode island from 1943 to 1946, working in the war bound office. [applause] the next, a chief Master Sergeant in the army in world war ii and was a prisoner of war. During his 18 months in activity in captivity he escaped 3 times from the germans and wants from the russian liberators. After the war he tried to join the army to go back to germany to find the nurse who kept him alive by sneaking him food. Unfortunately he was not allowed