Woody is a farmboy from quiet dale, West Virginia. Kind of a juxtaposition of what he went into the muck coming what he went into, coming from a place named quietville. He was a young man when he received the medal of honor. I am sure he will share his story with you. I dont need to tell you what he will tell you. Without further ado, woody williams. [applause] woody thank you. [applause] woody thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that nice welcome. Wow. Thank all of you for coming today. I dont know that i have ever spoken to a larger group than we have here today. So thank you. Today is a day important in my life. I dont know that it is anymore important than the 70th or 73rd when we had an opportunity to go back to iwo jima for a visit. It naturally brought back a lot of memories, some good and some bad. But i am very humbled to stand before you today. I am grateful for the opportunity of sharing with you some of my thoughts. 75 years ago, at this moment in time, thousands of marines
Up. Marines around me raised up, jumped up and starting firing weapons into the air, screaming and yelling and that kind of stuff. I really thought everybody lost their mind for a second. I couldnt figure out what was going on. Then i caught on what was going on, because they were looking and then i looked and theres old glory. I jumped up and started doing the same dumb thing, firing my weapon and jumping and screaming. Im carrying a weapon. I jumped up and started yelling and screaming like everybody else. I wondered how many marines we lost when we saw old glory up on top. It changed the attitude of the whole thing. It absolutely did something to us. From the exhibit space inside the National Museum of the marine corps, were joined by edward nebgloski and owen connor. Mr. Connor, on this eve of the 75th anniversary, explain why there are historic flags in that hallway that you are sitting in right now. Well, we wanted to take the opportunity to make sure the folks had the chance to
Medal of honor recipient. He is here to talk about that battle 75 years ago today. Woody is a farmboy from quiet dale, West Virginia. Kind of a juxtaposition of what he went into the muck coming from a place named quietville. He was born in 1923. He received the medal of honor. He was a young man when he received the medal of honor. I am sure he will share his story with you. I dont need to tell you what he will tell you. Without further ado, woody williams. [applause] mr. Williams thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that nice welcome. Wow. Thank all of you for coming today. I dont know that i have ever spoken to a larger group than we have here today. So thank you. Today is a day important in my life. I dont know that it is anymore important than the 70th or 73rd when we had an opportunity to go back to iwo jima for a visit. It naturally brought back a lot of memories, some good and some bad. But i am very humbled to stand before you today. I am grateful for the
Honor recipient. And he has come here today to talk with us about that battle 75 years ago today. Woody is a farm boy from quiet dale, West Virginia. Kind of a big juks a position of what he went into coming from a place called quiet dale. He was born in 1923 and in 1945 he received the medal of honor. So he was just a young man. So im sure woody will share his story with you. I dont need to tell you what hes going to tell you. So without further ado, woody williams. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that nice welcome. Wow. Thank all of you for coming today. I dont know that ive ever spoken to a larger group than we have here today. So thank you. Today is a day important in my life. I dont know that its any more important than the 70th or the 73rd when we had an opportunity to go back to iwo jima for a visit. It naturally brought back a lot of memories. Some good, some bad. But i am very humbled to stand before you today. Im grateful for the opportunity of sha
in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had walked outside, propped open a door and then went back inside, and left that door propped open. we re learning that 19 officers stood in the hallway of the school for nearly an hour before a border patrol agent showed up with a master key he had found to open up the door to enter and then kill the suspect. and while the clock was ticking for that to happen. investigators disclosed children were calling 911 begging for operators to send in police to help. texas dps say the local incident commander