Elizabeth warren held a town hall. Afterwards, Senate Leaders discuss the articles of impeachment against President Trump and the pending senate trial. Daniel weiss, your new book in that time opens with a poem that was composed in 1970. Id like you to frame our conversation by reading it. Id be happy to. Its letters from plaku. If you are able save for them a place inside of you. And save up with backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you love them though you may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you while youre dying and keep them in their own. And in that time when men decide to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. Michael odonnell, january 1st, 1970. Who was Michael Odonnell . He was a young man who found himself in vietnam in 1970. He was a songwritered a a poet and a helicopter pilot and a hero and ultimately a casualty of the vietnam war. Ho
Poem that was composed in 1970. This was on new years day. Id like you to frame our conversation by reading it. David id be happy to. Its titled letters from plaku. If you are able save for them a place inside of you. And save up with backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you love them though you may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you while youre dying and keep them in their own. And in that time when men decide to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. Michael odonnell, january 1st, 1970. Susan who was Michael Odonnell . David he was a young man who found himself in vietnam in 1970. He was a songwriter and a poet and a helicopter pilot and a hero and ultimately a casualty of the vietnam war. Susan how did you encounter his poetry . David i first read a book by harold evans. There was a section of the vietnam war in that section theres a small ph
Poem that was composed in 1970. Because it prints the book, i would like you to frame our conversation by reading it. David id be happy to. Its titled letters from plaku. If you are able save for them a place inside of you. And save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you love them though you may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep them in their own. And in that time when men decide to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. Michael odonnell, january 1st, 1970. Susan who was Michael Odonnell . David Michael Odonnell was a young man who found himself in vietnam in 1970. He was a songwriter and a poet and a helicopter pilot and a hero and ultimately a casualty of the vietnam war. Susan how did you encounter his poetry . David i first came across it in a book by harold evans. There was a section of the vietnam war in th
Downplayed wars consumption of life and limb in wars. Moving from the margins to the center of the american war story in this talk, kinder will look , at the history of american war through the eyes of five disabled veterans. What emerges is a portrait of a nation struggling and often failing to mitigate the human cost of military conflict. We welcome dr. Kinder from Oklahoma State university where he is associate professor of history and american studies. Paying withhor of their bodies, which came out two years ago. And he is currently completing a zooson the history of thi in world war ii. Please welcome Professor John kinder. [applause] professor kinder thank you. Let me just arrange this real quick. First off, i want to thank the new york academy of medicine for inviting me to speak with you this evening. This is a real pleasure and i look forward to the day im able to come back here, hopefully soon as a researcher. To use this amazing collection. I want to point out from the start
Professor lienhang nguyen, looking back 50 years to 1967, was it still possible at that point to the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . Simple answer, no. I would definitely say no. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it was not in the cards. Mark lawrence, take us to the end of 1967 and politically the president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon for Lyndon Johnson . Well lbj was in a fair amount of political difficulty. In the 1966 elections the democrats have lost not control over congress which is an important point, but he had lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two seats in the senate. This was a significant setback. The war was certainly damages his political popularity and you could see a decline across 1967. More importantly what you see across 1967 and leading into 1968 is a breakup of that coalition that lbj depended on and been so effectively in 1964 to one of the biggest landslides in american president ial hi