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Generation. The stories of word war 2. You can enhance your lessons and have a more personal understanding of what these gentleman and their compatriots have been through to get here today. We know that the gentlemen here in front of us, and the other events that we do, we have a short time to tect to them and understand them and the fact that they made it through one of the most significant experiences in history. We also want to make sure that erin everyone in the audience can ask questions that you will find valuable in your classrooms. Ly probably step forward to make sure i can hear you properly, repeat the question so the audience can hear, and the cspan audience can hear, and the honor res can hear as well. First to the left, in the handsome red blazer, charles mcgee. He was in the United States air force for 30 years. He holds a record 409 fighter combat missions flown in korea and vietnam. To his left, who i met on my very ....
Heros with, our veterans of world war ii. And we thank them for joining us this morning. My name is mike hydeck. Im honored to be here with friends of the world war ii memorial. And the foundation. Im the morning anchor at wusa channel 9 here in washington, d. C. And the goal of this discussion is to hopefully share some of their most personal stories from our greatest generation. The thought being their emotional firstperson accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons, hopefully, and had a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their come patriots have gone through to make it here today. We know that the gentlemen sitting here in front of us and the is other events we do honoring world war ii veterans, we have a short time to connect with them and understand they made it through one of the most horrific experiences in the world history. Its amazing that theyre sitt ....
The very latest. A lot of action there as anticipated. And a Health Care Proposal from republican senator ted cruz is gaining apparently some traction on capitol hill well have details on his amendment, proposed amendment and reaction from the ceo of mt. Sinai hospital lets get to our jon fortt, shall we, beginning with some big job cuts over at microsoft jon is in san francisco. Jon . Reporter yeah, kelly, microsoft set to cut thousands of jobs as it focuses its efforts on the cloud, reorganizes its sales operation around that. Its going to be less than 10 of its overall sales force of just under 50,000 people, but cant get a lot more specific than that. Also, some corporate functions connected to sales now, most of these jobs are going to be overseas more than 75 of them. This reorganization, think of it in terms of a different way to approach selling cloud to the enterprise, to finance, to health care. Lots of different s ....
Before we do now as we call off each crirn, they will stand and well have old glory, the flag thats been taken around the world, presented to each one of them and theyll be saluted for their service. Presenting the flags is a father and son team, jason atiri from the national defense. Iversity and his son r. Garnett h. Hammond. Mr. Hammond enlisted in the u. S. Army reserves Officers Training corps while attending howard university, as an army soldier, he served in the you apparent theater in world war ii serving in england, france, and germany and was a tech 5 sergeant and served as a mail clerk until receiving an Honorable Discharge in 1946. After the war, mr. Hammond worked as the United StatesNational Postal museum in washington, d. C. For 35 years. Lad ....
Channel 9 here in washington, d. C. And the gold of this discussion is to hopefully share some of their most personal stories from our greatest generation. The thought being their emotional firstperson accounts can help galvanize the stories of worlder war two for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons, hopefully, and had a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their come patriots have gone through to make it here today. We know that the gentlemen sitting here in front of us and the is other events we do honoring world war ii veterans, we have a short time to connect with them and understand they made it through one of the most horrific experiences in the world history. Its amazing that theyre sitting here with us today. We also want to make sure that everyone in the audience has a chance to participate and ask questions of their own, that youll find valuable in your classrooms and for your. And when you ask them, i wi ....