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the best and the most learn more about america s neutrality and hurled war one in world war i. when the classroom here on american history tv. all the boats began on december 16, 1944 in belgium, luxembourg, and france. a keyth was a key crossroads. episode fromicture 1965 telling the story of the desperate fight around the small town from the perspective of men from both sides who were there, including lieutenant will rogers junior. not wealthy, not well-known. before what happened here in .ecember, 1944, or since for seven days, history paused at a crossroads in this village and then passed on. unless we call history the echoes of the men who make it, as they did the battle of st. vith. not much time for sleeping, eating at irregular hours. everyone in every unit was fighting for its own life. maybe this is it. firing at 150 yards. when you are cold, you stay cold. there is no way of getting warm. we have no orders to retire. in 1944, p german ar ....
koreans, i wanted to meet a monster and so he invited me up to death row, to prison 70 miles from here north. i was an immigrant in prison and i ve never certainly been in death row. and it was eerie but there was a long division down the center of this long room and it had wire above the and then there was a counter and there was a little plug about an inch deep that you could slip paper through. and there were guards every so often. i couldn t figure out the reasoning for the guards, why there were so many. i figured it out, because when they brought him and he was so notorious, he was a mass murderer and the guard came and described him. and the whole time i was there, he became very angry. on some subsequent visit he said the guard had stepped on his foot and he was very angry about that. we worked in the visitation area of death row which was rather difficult. he would slide his note through the grace to me and i would slide it back to him and that s where we work. ....
colonel edward shames began in 1942. he was enlisted with the 101st airborne. he received a battlefield commission. he was transferred to easy company as a platoon commander. he has quite the sassy attitude. are you ready for that? it is and gentlemen, i give you colonel edward shame. colonel edward shames. [applause] colonel shames: don t let this cane for you. my kitty cat did this to me about four months ago. incidentally, all of you familiar with battlefield are you familiar with battlefield commissions? probably not. people familiar with battlefield commissions wanted photo ops. they can put all the names in the cap. you picked one. and that was me. see, now you know. [laughter] colonel shames: shames that was : supposed to be funny. the american army almost lost a year to reach hitler s eagles nest. after we landed in normandy. if you noticed your programs for today s lecture, you ll knows that they gave me a second 30 minutes to go from normandy to the eagl ....
d-day museum by a congressional charter. we were charged with telling the story of the entire american experience in world war ii. white was fought, how it was capitowon, what it means today. in this gallery, we get to the big moment where the united states and her allies had to win this particular day. d-day, june 6, 1944. narrated is our film by tom brokaw, which gives our visitors the overarching story of d-day normandy. but next to me over here on the left, a very special exhibit. this is an exhibit case dedicated to ernie pyle s long thin line of anguish column. ernie pyle actually walked the beaches at normandy where the american forces landed, and he everything left over from war by the troops coming ashore on the beach. what we have in this case is actual artifacts and sand from utah and omaha beaches. pyle writes about what he found. you can see he talks about shoe polish, diaries, bibles, hand grenades, toothbrushes razors. he particularly singles out in his c ....
we are in a special gallery for us here because our museum was originally founded in the 1990 s as the national d-day museum. our congressional charter is to tell the american experience. in this gallery we get to the where the united states and her allies had to win this particular day. june 6, 1944. behind me is our film narrated by tom brokaw. it gives visitors the overarching story of the day at normandy. next to me on the left is a very special exhibit. this was dedicated to ernie pyle actually walked the beaches of normandy where the american forces landed. he saw the of war left over by troops. what we have in this case is actual arctic actual artifacts and sand from utah and omaha beaches. he talks about shoe polish, showing hand grenades, toothbrushes, razors. columnsignals out in his grading papers. writing papers. the other thing they had an awful lot of for cigarettes. he made the comment that a line of cigarettes up and down the beach marked the hig ....