Your friends so they can join, too. Tonights meet the author Event Features a great friend of the museum, someone whos become very involved with us in the last year or so, james holland, who, last week, published the second book in his trilogy on world war ii in the west, the allies strike back. Before i get to the introductions, i do want to follow a tradition we have here at the museum. I dont know if we have any world war ii veterans with us tonight that i can recognize. If not, id like to recognize veterans from all eras of service. [applause] thank you for your service and sacrifices. This evening, well have on stage together two of the biggest names and most prolific writers in the world war ii field. I was just thinking to myself this afternoon, if this was like boxing or something, this would be like a payperview match or something that we would have on this stage tonight. So we have our own senior historian, rob citino, who published his 10th book this month and hell be interv
Before class. I dont know if the individual has the courage to ask that question. Is that possible . Do you want to do that . Okay. All right. I asked if that picture was you. Well, its part of me. This is Maurice Jacob weaner, my father. And this lecture is in honor of him. My grandmother, his mother, his functionally illiterate in english. Spoke yiddish. Never learned the language. He graduated third in his class in high school and won a scholarship to penn and wharton in law school where we also boxed and ran track. He was drafted at age 35 when my mom was pregnant. Came home really didnt mind the war. Now, he was a nifty guy, and i think one of the main reasons im doing this tonight is because of him. Because he used to have me sit while he shaved every morning which was quite a scene. And he would quote the gettysberg address, or he would quote from shakespeare, but above all, he would talk about world war ii. So i knew about the battle of the bulge when i was about five years old
I dont know if the individual has the courage to ask that question. Is that possible . You want to do that . Ok. All right. I asked if that picture was you. Well, its part of me. This is Maurice Jacob weiner, my father. And this lecture is in honor of him. My grandmother, his mother, was functionally illiterate in english. Spoke yiddish. Never really learned the language. He graduated third in his class in high school and won a scholarship to law school where he also boxed and ran track. He was drafted at age 35 when my mom was pregnant, came home. Really didnt mind the war. Now, he was a nifty guy. And i think one of the main reasons im doing this tonight is because of him, because he used to have me sit while he shaved every morning, which was quite a scene. And he would quote the gettysburg address or quote from shakespeare but above all, he would talk about world war ii. So i knew about the battle of the bulge when i was five years old. I know the differences in the airplanes, all
Glad to see all of you here tonight. We had one burning question before class. I dont know if the individual has the courage, who asked that question. Is that possible . Do you want to do that . Ok. All right. I asked if that picture was you. Well, its part of me. This is Maurice Jacob weiner, my father. And this lecture is in honor of him. My grandmother, his mother, was functionally illiterate in english. Spoke yiddish. Never really learned the language. He graduated third in his class in high school and won a scholarship to law school where he also boxed and ran track. He was drafted at age 35 when my mom was pregnant, came home. Really didnt mind the war. Now, he was a nifty guy. And i think one of the main reasons im doing this tonight is because of him, because he used to have me sit while he shaved every morning, which was quite a scene. And he would quote the gettysburg address or quote from shakespeare but above all, he would talk about world war ii. So i knew about the battle
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