Admiral why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral . [laughter] what a great question. You can choose to hear a particular course you will lose ultimately in a different direction. And then to be in charge of all activity and with the commander of us Pacific Command position for senior admiral. My boss, a wonderful boss, secretary gates called to say forget about the pacific we will send you to nato i bk the first and only admiral to be the supreme allied commander and it was an accidenthe. That the navy was an accident as a career . Soet somewhat. That my father had kernel of marines growing up in that environment and going to Quantico High School thinking it would be them marine corps everybody goes out on a cruise going on a cruise are in san diego. Late in the day on the peer and the sun was setting looking out on all that ocean and i just wanted to be a sailor. I told my dad and mom they were hoping it would be a marine that years later my dad said that came out okay.
Question first. I do want to say a quick note about the events we have in the near future. On thursday of next week to week from this thursday may 21 a historian will join us to talk about his book the will of the people and will be our third of three lectures excited to have him joining us virtually from his home and we also have on thursday an exciting new event trivia thursdays with the mt. Vernon folks. We have live feeds with myself and the president and the head of the historical federation. Im happy to say i won in im excited to defend my title. We have daily life streams across the week days monday through friday and the noon hour and beginning just this past week we are starting a Member Exclusive series on monday nights. This past monday, yesterday doug reverend conversations coming monday Martha Washington a historical interpreter and the following monday memorial day brick abington with his work on the American Revolutionary war. These are exclusive event. Youll have an opp
Good morning. I would like to welcome you to historic fort stevens. Come on up. On behalf of the National Park service, we would like to welcome you to historic fort stevens and the 55th anniversary of the battle of commemoration. I am the Program Manager for the civil war defenses of washington, and that is a long or what encircles the National Park Service Number which manages 18 of the forts, as well as battleground national cemetery. Presenttime, we will the colors. Today, representing the 54th regiment of massachusetts and the united colored troops from connecticut. Withe going to open now the presentation of colors. [national anthem] [applause] please be seated. For those who are wondering, that was the hymn from the 1861 weldon,itten by oliver sung by harold hartford. We have greetings from our part superintendent at this time, julia washburn. [applause] julia good morning, everybody. What a Beautiful Day we have. We really lucked out on the weather and it feels like it may be h
So the gold award is the highestearned award, as you said. What girls dos look at a problem in their community, a challenge, and they spend over 80 hours doing work to solve that problem. One of the things that we require is that it not only thelps that community bt it has a longlasting effect after they complete it. Ow n i know the gold award has been compared to the boy scouts eagle scout. Yes. Thats not a fairis comparon, though, is it . The gold award is project based. And unlike a rank, you dono haveve earned the other Precious Metals on your way to earn being the gold award. I call it the ph. D. In girl scouti, because it really is about having a girls, what she is curious and concerned about, taking that and making it something that she can improve. So there are 225,s this this region . This year. The girl scouts of the ncaions tal is the largest in the country. We have over 60,000 girls in maryland, virginia, western virginia and the districtf columbia. And it is the highest nu
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