2009 by the bbcs katty kay, who was guest host on the the diane rehm show. This is about 50 minutes. Katty thanks for joining us, i am katty kay of the bbc sitting in for diane rehm. On april the ninth 1865 general robert ely surrendered robert ely surrendered robert e. Lee and the sultana sank in the Mississippi River. Alan huffman tells us overlooked story. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our email address. Lets start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. Describe it to the audience. Alan the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. It evokes what was going on. The river was full of people. There were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. After it exploded and caught higher, you had people and horses s
History professor Theodore Wilson talks about their wartime experiences and how that later influenced them as future commanders in chief. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. It is about an hour. Prof. Wilson if i did not know very much about my parents, im not sure how much i knew about world war ii, but i do very much appreciate henrys very generous introduction. It is about an hour. Prof. Wilson if i did not know very much about my parents, im i am delighted to be taking part in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii in europe and particularly tonight in europe sponsored by the Truman Library institute and the Kansas City Public Library. Institutions with which i have enjoyed opportunities to cooperate and for which i have enormous respect as sources of intellectual inquiry in this region. One caveat before i take you back to the america of 1941 to 1945. Title of my lecture is a gloss on tom brokaws bestseller the greatest generation, which
County mosquito abatement district, the Dublin Services district, the zone 7 water agency, the Alameda County special districts association, and the American Association of quality. Jim was always there to step up when we jim never stopped learning, he never stopped serving and naming dublins post office, our only post office, after jim is a fitting tribute to his lifetime contributions and helps to inspire trivalley Community Residents to follow in his footsteps by dedicating their lives to service to others. Passing this bill also now ensures that jims surviving wife, who hes married to for 47 years, passed and their children, bill and mark, will be able to see jim honored. Its also the 50th anniversary this week of when jim and pat both met and graduated from Rypien College in wisconsin Rippon College in wisconsin. Today we honor jim kohnen, loving husband and father, faithful Public Servant, soldier and eagle scout. And urge my colleagues to join me in support of h. R. 1671. With t
William “Arnie” Miller discovered that his maternal McCorry uncles all served in the military when he went in search of the final resting place of two of them.
On Thursday, May 23, U.S. Army Sergeant George Frank Bishop, of Centralia, was buried with full military honors nearly 82 years after he died while being held captive in an Imperial Japanese …