Administration with a concentration on American History from shepherd university. Keith has also served in the United States air force and the Air National Guard for 40 years and recently retired as a colonel with the 167th airlift wing. He lives with his wife cindy in martinsberg, west virginia. Please join me in welcoming keith as he talked about the battle of antietam from the perspective of the soldiers that experienced it firsthand. [ applause ] thank you, kevin. It is great to be with you. I certainly had a very enjoyable drive down here. This is some beautiful country. So what im going to do this evening, the mayor talked about perspective and what im going to share with you are actually two perspectives on the battle of antietam. Since im the opening speaker for three days of antietam information, we thought, kevin and i talked before we came down, it might be good to have a general overview of the maryland campaign. Im going to do a broad brush stroke to have some perspective
Iran the International Security program. Its a privilege to introduce jim sciutto is a correspondent and cnn anchor and author of the new book inside chinas operations to feed america. It was attracted to various forms and most of the wall street journal. And it has a lot of good critical success. You may not know the gym was also the chief of staff at the u. S. Embassy in china so he knows the china story quite well. He is a graduate of Yale University and a former fellow. The short washington with his wife and they have three children. Im going to turn over to him, he is reported around the world, asia, middle europe and middle east. Ill turn it over to him to make opening observations about the book and then open it up to q a. Thank you very much jim. Thanks so much well of you for taking time out of aut busy sunny friday. I appreciate having you here as well. And thank you to peter for inviting me he was one of the first people to read a manuscript of the book early on and he did n
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