before he takes the podium, we will see our next oral history stare,e, the 2000 yard where veterans discuss their emotional and mental wins that they brought home with them while also having to readjust to civilian life in the real post war world. [video clip] telilu is the most intense experience of my life. i ve never come anywhere near that nor do i ever expect to. it was a living hell from day one. thinghink the biggest that ever happened to me was crossing the field. anyone who is ever scared to death. i guess at that time i never expected to make 21. wanted off an island that bad in my life. combat pucker in comment time and relax time. there was no relaxing time at all. as i came along, i saw this huge om group bigger than this room. i could hear all this chatter and there was a couple outside that were shouting back and forth. they didn t see me or knew i was out there, but they took my ar and i let those two guys have the most of that 20 rounds. they ha
rage, the unspoken truth of our racial divide. new york times book review notable books of 2016, 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. author of the presidency in black and white, my up close view of three presidents and race in america. princeton professor eddie glaude. and associate editor of the washington post david marinus. watch from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on sunday on book tv on c-span2. sergeant bill maldinwas a cartoonist during world war ii showcasing the hardships of the war through his characters willie and joe. he continued his work after the war and won two pulitzer prizes in 1945 and 1959. next, a look at mauldin s post car cartooning career. this program begins with an eight-minute world war ii film about the emotional scars of the war. two of the most famous soldiers of world war ii were the g.i.s willie and joe, cartoon characters created by the great bill mauldin, who are beloved by the servicemen overseas for their frank representation of what it was li
it forced the europeans to work with one another to come up with a joint common economic plan. 1945, the united states had the world s nuclear monopoly, it had the world s largest navy, largest air force. more than 50% of the planet s manufacturing capacity, more than 50% of the world s merchant marine fleet, more than half the world s gold stocks, monetary reserves. it was the world s leading oil producer and oil exporter. and in short it had the only intact large scale industrial economy in the world. what it did with that kind of power was to create these kind of institutions and to begin to erect the global security and economic architecture that has been in place for the last 70 or so years. and i submit to you that that international order about which ian broom talked last evening, is something which has served us and the world well with certainly some controversial exceptions. but by and large, i think its role has been beneficial for us and the world at large. and it
cartoon characters created by the great bill mauldin, who are beloved by the servicemen overseas for their frank representation of what it was like two a grunt at the front. mauldin knew that. like the actual war veterans, v willie and joe s story wasn t going to end when they came home. our next speaker has focused his work on sharing veterans stories with his veterans breakfast club and is also the biographer of mauldin. we think there s no one better to come and talk about coming home. before he takes the podium, we will see our next oral history showcase, the 2000 yard stare, where veterans discuss their emotional and mental wounds that they brought home with them, while also having to readjust to civilian life in the real post-war world. the most intense experience of my life. i have never come anywhere near that, nor do i ever expect to. it was a living hell from day one. i think the biggest thing that ever happened to me was crossing the field. if anybod
two of the most famous soldiers of world war ii were the gis, willie and joe, cartoon characters created by the great bill mauldin. who were beloved by the servicemen overseas for their frank representation about what it was like to be a grunt at the front. mauldin knew that. willie and joe s story wasn t going to end when they came home, like the actual war veterans. our next speaker, todd depastino has focused his work on sharing veterans stories with the veterans breakfast club and the biographer of mauldin. we think there is no one better to come and talk about coming home. before he takes the podium, we will see our next oral history showcase, the 2000 yard stare where veterans discuss their emotional and mental wounds that they brought home with them while also having to readjust to civilian life in the real post war world. pelalu was the most intense experience of my plooilife. i have never come any wheres near that nor do i ever expect to. it was a living hell