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Im going to call everybodys attention. It seems like youre all having great, which is the goal i to hear some talk about leadership at the tables with i want to introduce mr. Alvin townley name and as i introduce him i could stand up here and introduce him as youd introduce so many speakers could talk about the six books hes written are the emmy documentary that he was part of or that hes landed on three aircraft carriers in three oceans. But im not going to do that im actually going to talk about why we asked mr. Townley to be. So i was introduced to mr. Townley through mr. Sears, the director of innovation leadership innovation, the Stockdale Center, and he that mr. Townley would be a great speaker to kick off our homecoming 50th commemoration and and and as he talked about mr. And his writing of the alcatraz 11 and the p. O. W. S of vietnam and their families. But this is interesting could be a great start. And so i called mr ....
Its said that history is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of men. It is wise men and women who pay careful attention to the lessons of history. When prisoners of war returned home from their ordeal in the infamous hanoi hilton nearly 50 years ago, they brought with them hard won lessons about the value of unity and about the benefits of communication that they returned with their honor intact holds out funding, mental lessons. As our society deals with racial and political upheaval and an isolation imposed by a global pandemic. What lessons can we learn from those who have gone before . Before its too late. We will. Military men. We will professional warriors. They took me out to interrogation and they said, youre a criminal and you will be treated as a criminal, as was to be experienced in the next eight years. They did indeed resort to torture. Heres me getting beat with a van built. Things started to get rough. Things scratched when you got harsher and harsher. I took ....
Its said that history is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of men. It is wise men and women who pay careful attention to the lessons of history. When prisoners of war returned home from their ordeal in the infamous hanoi hilton nearly 50 years ago, they brought with them hard won lessons about the value of unity and about the benefits of communication that they returned with their honor intact holds out funding, mental lessons. As our society deals with racial and political upheaval and an isolation imposed by a global pandemic. What lessons can we learn from those who have gone before . Before its too late. We will. Military men. We will professional warriors. They took me out to interrogation and they said, youre a criminal and you will be treated as a criminal, as was to be experienced in the next eight years. They did indeed resort to torture. Heres me getting beat with a van built. Things started to get rough. Things scratched when you got harsher and harsher. I took ....
It didnt used to do until fairly recently. The reason why people worry about American Society are obsessed about universities. Thats not just a function of their own backgrounds but a change in society that is worth noticing. You have heard some fine speeches about virtue today. Some think actions speak louder than words so i will practice it here before your very eyes by ending on time. Thank you to our panelists and thank you to all of you. Nk you d gentlemen. Her next speaker is here and its Patrick Dineen professor thank you and the next speaker is here and it is the professor of Political Science at the university of notre dame and he is patrick deneen. He taught at princeton and georgetown and from 2005 to 2007 he served as a speechwriter for the director of u. S. Information agency. His teaching and writing f ....
And i am glad i didnt have to answer them and thank you to chris and kevin for doing that. We will reconvene in 15 minutes for a panel on civic virtue. Thank you for being here. I am a fellow here at the Stockdale Center and its a pleasure to be with peter to discuss virtue. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books and he is director of constitutional studies at the American Enterprise institute and the author of numerous books. We will start i think with peter. The thank you. It is great to be here with my panelists and thanks to ed and the Naval Academy for this opportunity. I thought it might be useful to do something unusual, for me at east to approach the panels topic of civil virtue and its decline and its rein ....