Accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons hopefully and have a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their compatriots have gone through. We know the gentleman gentleman sitting here before us, and the other infants, we have a short the other infants, we have a short time. It is amazing they are sitting here with us today. We also want to make sure everyone in the audience has a chance to participate and ask questions of their own that you will find valuable in your classrooms and for your students. When you ask them, i will probably step forward to make sure i can hear you properly, repeat the question so the audience can hear and the cspan audience can hear and our honorees in here as well. Lets introduce our panel. First to my left in a handsome red blazer [laughter] charles mcgee, one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a career officer in the United States air force
Generation. The stories of word war 2. You can enhance your lessons and have a more personal understanding of what these gentleman and their compatriots have been through to get here today. We know that the gentlemen here in front of us, and the other events that we do, we have a short time to tect to them and understand them and the fact that they made it through one of the most significant experiences in history. We also want to make sure that erin everyone in the audience can ask questions that you will find valuable in your classrooms. Ly probably step forward to make sure i can hear you properly, repeat the question so the audience can hear, and the cspan audience can hear, and the honor res can hear as well. First to the left, in the handsome red blazer, charles mcgee. He was in the United States air force for 30 years. He holds a record 409 fighter combat missions flown in korea and vietnam. To his left, who i met on my very First World War ii event, he landed on the beach in no
Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Were learning new details this morning about the gunman who killed three people at a pensacola, florida, naval base on friday. Officials say 21yearold Saudi Air Force officer Mohammed Saeed alshamrani used a handgun that was bought legally in florida. He was shot and killed by a sheriffs deputy. The Associated Press is reporting that he had apparently gone on twitter shortly before the shooting and poste messages that criticized american support of israel and accused the u. S. Of being antimuslim. Theres no official word on a motive for the shooting. The three american sailors killed have been identified as 23yearold joshua kaleb watson, 19yearold airman Muhammad Salman hytham, and airman apprentice Cameron Scott walters. A motorcade took their bodies from the naval base yesterday. People lined the streets of pensacola Holding American flag. Thfallen were transported to Dover Air Force base in delaware. David begnaud has more now from the fbi in
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you both so much for joining us for our breaking news coverage of the injuries suffered by damar hamlin in tonight s bills game. that is tonight s last word. our continuing coverage now continues on the 11th hour with stephanie. it starts now. it starts now. good evening, i am stephanie. we begin this evening s broadcast with breaking news and sports. tonight monday night football game has been postponed until further notice. 24 year damar hamlin collapsed on the field after making a tackle while playing against the cincinnati bangles. he was on the field for more than ten minutes while medical teams performed cpr and gave him oxygen. he left the game in an ambulance and was taken to the university of cincinnati medical center. the nfl now says he is in critical condition, but there is still a lot we do not know at this point. i want to bring in j.a. he is on the phone with us. he covers the buffalo bills for the buffalo news. thank you for joining us. what a night this has