There will be a book sale. All three books will be available at the end of the program and just reminder also that a portion of the sale of each book goes into the virginia festival of the book program itself. The sessions are being recorded so during the question and answer period this is important because of the reporting of the programs. Please raise your hand and one of the volunteers of the festival will hand you a handheld microphone so your question can be heard and paid for however it hits the broadcast. The reason we have a wonderful program, features jan herman, the author of the lucky few the fall of saigon and the rescue mission of the uss kirk. This will be the order of their presentation. Second to speak will be general ira hunt, losing vietnam, how america abandoned Southeast Asia. He is a retired Major General and moderated his last book at the book festival. The chief medical historian, Frank Leith Jones, has offered offered 7 books for military history. And finally, F
The question is, will we learn from them . Time. Okay. Thank you all for coming. Ill be over here signing books if you would like one. [applause] on behalf of the library, thank you again for coming. And thank you to all of you for coming and your great questions. For more information on events like this, visit the web site. Have a great night. [applause] [inaudible conversations] weed like to hear from you. Tweet us your feedback, twitter. Com booktv. Cspans newest book, sundays at eight. A collection of interviews with some of the nations top story tellers. In the beginning of the war when you were afraid of holding the gun. Then when we went to the first battle and we fought and i shot somebody, kill somebody, it does something to you that you start to its very difficult in the beginning but after time went on it became easy, became normalized, and actually in the context of war this is what happens. You normalize the situation so you can live through it because if you dont, you die
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