Moment totake a mention a couple of additional arele who are here they three who came from vietnam who will be participating this afternoon and i think that for a number of reasons i want to introduce them including in reference to the past discussion, one of the key ways of talking about what has gone on, what is the harm of the war, is to have the faces and the voices of individual people and tran teortunate to have wan was an agent or an survivor will be part of agent orange survivor who will be on the panel this afternoon. Will beguyen fu talking about an effort to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance. Lai who is ao van victim of exploded and unexploded ordnance. I also want to mention two people who are not part of the book but who played a key role in helping to organize this panelence and the wednesday afternoon. That is terry province and John Mcauliffe from that vietnam peace memory she committee. We out peace commemoration committee. [applause] a great pleasure to chris ap
Doerries hua socrates . He was a general in the army and a citizen. He was of a warrior class and the most highly militarized democracy of its time. Over a 100 year period spent eight years and more. He wrote plays that describe experiences that really only those who have been to war or care for those who plan to work it possibly understand so the idea behind what ive been doing over the last seven years sub or by presenting these aging great war stories to audiences who lived those experiences stories of sacrifice and the trail and loss and guilt and shame. The idea is that people and they see themselves were plugged them in ancient narrative open up and realize they are not the only ones. These experiences are as old as time itself. He has a message for contemporary audiences, very urgent message. If you have experienced any of these things you are not alone. Host you talk about the theater of war and not the book necessarily. Guest is a project i started in 2008 in family present dr
Host joining us now is the jonathan shea, the author of audacity. Thank you for joining us. I love the book, a fascinating look back at the Obama Presidency. I was struck by the way it begins. It begins with a chapter on what you call americas final sin. Why is that . Because when people look back on obama 100 or 200 years from now when his presidency, the first thing theyll learned that he was the first africanamerican president or the first non white male president. That was not just a historical footnote and this is in just a breakthrough, but its something that defined in the public mind something he had to grapple with and i try to make an argument in the book that its not just something that happened to him, it was something that he helped shape and create a narrative of race in america that help bring america forward. So it was hardly incidental. It drove opposition for him in a huge way. Race was just central, the perceptions of obama and everything he did from healthcare on wo
Saturday at 3 00 we will have the new middle great mystery and then on tuesday we have eugene with this novel. You can make sure that your cell phones are turned off and also when we do that qanda after the end of the discussion we had a microphone. We have Michael Anthony after he got back from iraq he did it bachelors and then nas leslie before the memoir about his experience and chris is the interim director of the program and the author about the courage and how we respond. Thank you very much. Everybody can hear me okay . No, we cant. Can you hear me . The image that was going around the internet about six or eight years ago. It was in afghanistan and america is not at war. At the age of 20 went to iraq. He assisted the doctors and wounds saving american lives. Event is no longer wanted to live in the world that he fought for. It was difficult and reminded him of this cauterized smelling flesh. He writes we have turned parts of ourselves off, we have to to survive. It was hard for
Saturday at 3 00 we will have the new middle great mystery and then on tuesday we have eugene with this novel. You can make sure that your cell phones are turned off and also when we do that qanda after the end of the discussion we had a microphone. We have Michael Anthony after he got back from iraq he did it bachelors and then nas leslie before the memoir about his experience and chris is the interim director of the program and the author about the courage and how we respond. Thank you very much. Everybody can hear me okay . No, we cant. Can you hear me . The image that was going around the internet about six or eight years ago. It was in afghanistan and america is not at war. At the age of 20 went to iraq. He assisted the doctors and wounds saving american lives. Event is no longer wanted to live in the world that he fought for. It was difficult and reminded him of this cauterized smelling flesh. He writes we have turned parts of ourselves off, we have to to survive. It was hard for