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whhedhey cwhhe, what was going on at the time. and so irought all that together in a book that turned out to be 430 some pag and 60 ctnd lfesrc it ot rars and joyful times of my life. >> for more information on book tv recent visit to jefferson city msoi, m n./oc vic to >> you're watching book tv. in just a minute we will he from joe jackson roug orarok t 5,0onst b fst plnsac t la i 1 the eve cultivate it -- welminated in the death of six outlots and was won by charles lindbergh died across the ocean

onay01. otbis a annd mite e] >> well, thank you for having me out here, and that you for coming at it tonight. polka one other pce in nhatn y, the rse've g a w our point. i will try not to blow anything up. show meow to push the buttons and it should move forwatic wherta bts wh tt in ing sr pin t was 200 the idalct. esthgas on coitcueon. t

i was fascinated by that, and i wondered about the 2h century. or p i dveth o e e re a inls tomtion. it turned into a story of celebrity. this hero business, richa rd ay ceb bng o g hd-an so i found writing this book terribly fasciinesting. when i started to research this waed to losers. everybody has always written about what becameen hnown as the al t.t fgoendc fromhe victors

from septe fer li. o6 to jcioe june li. o71is taviators from the u.s.france, norway, and russia there ski $ofied. 1 on00 price offered by new york hotel owner raymond nordic for the first aviator to fly across the lentic nonstrom ntorit3 ar eit f oed p i ntesntes he got all excited. he was a frenchman. hetilly eed heirpl flhtas n available

toliers untilhar4,harithhar6, liven in o atorntesng ou thetoha aer e mehi sger and deadlier began from jcioe until dece fer of that year. duatnd'she potri t ai thitcrd idott thou died. an during that six month time frame 12 more pilots died in the attempt to cross to atlantic. many of them women.ateothieyio r,ut those who tried to cross the atlantic, like i said, ma of them were aviatrixes who re trying to prove that women we jus aslehe s.

e v it must general sense that this would happen when and how it did. the tecway ecol stce fgh ule fght c, was the development of powerful new air cooled engines. where there are a lot ofcrop lict wll t arms ve perl.m. and there was also a prevalent belief at the time that the airplane would make the world a th iaasecseveatin consonance would be more quickly linked people wounes get to know

each other and therefore there th is ahi biehat p web 300 artieith eir aou live in the rarified atmosphere, disease would disappear from breathing in the rarified ankeosaperbe mew do elv icun c t tw m to read more than that though, as i was researching the boines , i began to s36 that ted biv.h of amica's celrity cultureboe du ts time, and especially during this race. once a's in, tecway possible. 92oue rkc bs nioesdio n

hoil t awa thoron. you had an explosion of the print industry. more magazines tha ever before. h rso o7 ov h, fso bweell valown was because he was the most filmed iividual at that ti. it w t lmont ello se oer wch was 2 lollion otsiet more than the previouslyost found individual whoas the prince of wales. ofse s find a pl, pelyinergh. faadece theea o a

daily conversation. he did not really understand what the conversation was. it was a moral conversatioineslt .t was an imrtant conversation therti feoe reve tugh e cveatn. no one really knew what the language was, no oneen hnew what the grar bar was, no oneen hnew what t rul of li in th es ohat d ru ofebty heriter and broadcaster, and we can still s36 the patterns today. nte our e thowt wn nt snky nae

loli wen down into a cave shaft and southeastern kentucky and got stuck he36it wsrsedis a t ther seral wire agencies that blast nants of the res36 le attempts all over the united states w nr3 a le cns. rins p heanorous give updates on what was going on with floyd collins. lo eaceylihaen jrnalisy t das g suneilnddr t ce ofon this was the story of life and death. and they counes tell physically 36ee tre at were interested

the rdeading to where sand cave was, and then there were thousands vndhe 5 he h sas n . day uooat thaon to oistain this tale by creating a --he rderharaers, people that therteerifie e --in nthewere stereotypical, but every tim we wrote about these characters we caays lplebc . 'l gou se ehaernhis, t

celeb wit there was floyd collins. he was about, and every man. first he thought that theace ulet o o teav i bame tis it gou not h t heav heied atisth i gneke h there was the one reporter who was able to go down the shaft every day to interrkew collins, to bring in water, to b him n, t b h atl gh wik t cr his guy's name was skied smeller. he was a r3 thorter from the louisville newspapers. anheve is tll,en l finds his humanity. he is a cynical r3 thorter who is going down to interview the sky every day. he finds his humanit er tatr,

me hamutes enain ot6rere heotr, pseed as a hard-working mociotain womn who is banned from yea bd sind the plow. e a flira ieho poyte atratoheha t h glfend his l wit at the entranc to the cave. his srtid naior evy athe era to , d sorea s itgo tit atvent that occurred was lintlergh's flat nt er the agodantic on may 21st destiny second. orayg t be thatexy h ve aiy e icre e participants in the greatest example of hero worship that

anyone could remember. once again, it took everybody by oirprise, but still,hen ty ths rwiers cooedpleh by died it transformed from a simple race into something much more persoinesl and metvohorica. by t hfouis rac o life and fl clireh t rivals as people that ween hnew. once alliin, they we given labels. we knew them when we wrote about th t. e lier fuassedsoed. as dark. asde chyrd. he was the scientist and explore guided by pure reasonel h wen r

guyromtah itths cboy the oth mass boo wit in his saddlebags. he was presented as almost the erifwh r of t he wo bng iclireedck ter it deserved, the french had stolen from us. there was bby td a costaho already had a ne,head y heir heashes di'an barnstormers and fliers at this time wereen hind of lhim stars today. they left lot of children behi t wehi th w crl se a h co-outlot were the only frenchman to try to come

across from paris to new york. ou of a t gmo ghfhe. o llywood mnt ielos one of which would note released until after his death. there were no complications and peth weredhe beet becam invested with the hs tes and -- eangi of millions, and their victories and failures became our obels. now, y h goorr taid to, all hopurg the -- he showed up the week before he took off. the other fliers had b36n covereto death. he wasew, which made him n oas o bo ltlgh sou.

an a aheaz orters went absolutel3 we3 nuts about him. but everyone of the flyers aich3 one time or the other had b36n decledherone ere t tothne.s n d ry fwa staupld and just as capable as h rival. nobody sawt the time t limbu new was atbetran ininhtts wtou . ifttintlergh watched the others start for himnd thook cnce w mereed all rnedht. so let's talk about the characters a little bit. this is where things blow up.

is ym oei e, triate french hotel obelser in nant yok to put down the $25,000 for the ic meplveed atous to s 325000.o however, it was clearly cioderstohan that whoever was first across the atlantic in addition tohe pricene ot aerinngheos lindbe newh was worth a million dollars, and the continued to make more an that. he got a l of oer h rsonch tne omhe iioefi tu af e d.

rat yond orteig had been born at the borderetenpainndand waser ciisnderhea ge tr ted states and s36 what you c do. he became, at first, a waiter at the laf spetteallye o whi rene aut t yrs r t thiner bt da rshe. and with a partner he owns two hotels in nant york. one was the hot set b wcr n itenbe and the hotel la fayette was considered a slice of authentic ance in the macro ble onann.

buapned wha ngnerne hotel lahan yette was of preferred ple stay for french military men and fliers when they came to the foai or.tateipma or t cam aol sri tin asd -- always some siria aboutis country. he just ror tor tberethat with fondness. after the war was over h he ntaic. in 1919 he hosted a dinner for 80 rickeackerhe uted ribaer walki d,en3 i really miss

the companionship that occurred between t french fliers and the american flis. alt o tg oie wl utedn air and not through war, but by piece. and so insoutred by that that joedheerlu o a hete lteay, i am going to donate cra and ty thenfor this price which was basical nslimework t i 3600me he did not know at the time that $25,000 w 1 t the oul.

sohe bee on luteeangbehr h that long afterwards. most, all but one team staout ed he t wldun atp edou t. . d long island was a natural airfield. the center of nassau count3 the center of nassau count3 we3 naturally occurring perry east of the allegher es. itas flalar there re n trees. erre fms. deteeer y they had to bounce up and down

little bit. placerhrisms toerpsad rhtext plains. curtis field, mitchell field and roel enepd. thhe it is where thnot r took o32. 19n c fmnee f he w the greatest living d sps from wornes war one, 75 o32icaul kills e rar h me,ute h oor tzea

races, air raceshich are held 3 there. he came across an american consortium that was startin to rind plandhi prtems aai w i want to do this. as famous as he was, the americans won knots. the planeas desdned by. sikye s my the dela. bea a plas. he was the main airplane builder for the czar in russi obrvn w yhhe ulnd wkut w los of them -- there were so massive that onlone was opot down by the germans as they reio arsntoermany.

ris, b terl of spce airanees he t of aant togethe60a crew of himsel as pilot, anmen estn hey w that his flight was a sure thing. he really had no competitors. but he drastically oveoaded hitared roosevecel field from curtis yienes. the plane descended -- disintegrated d burst into a fames the ssi mnd chadman he said he lost.

he was the loser. noboe wa really tested in. so he never really get enough amanartonka second try. , i can do this. the rst person to staout thinking about this was richard byrd 26adlo o t e pelyveheeir le. today that is generally dieamuted. it is believed today that he probably fell about pi50 mrine mo useo think that he probably -- he was alw sps gh wown as a n renedator, but hs not a very good navigator.

theyeem to think h just he t bac boras he bnrde o ngiomeofor. youen hnoina his entire image depended upon this. so he could not really backdown by tt p nant. he ihoit ol bnehi en c fienes was named after. and it was always one of the mostespected fliers. o.hayid io. don't know. i do not know. i donover thi@ hhad anything to pon with aviation. wtapd w t ve of

piirf6 the obelser of the wanammserepartment stores in new york, one of the largest depaout ment stores in nant yort ateai atinr rianive y 00 iounhe wburind the plane and be the first across the atlantic to flight. sihen ne, ame it america. sigience. and he could not really backed out. although it was not rfirst acorn the press and first,his was ke fairly secure for a while. d hesner wnter er had bltheed ss, huilt birds plane that flew over the north pole. so it was a star-studded consortium. wait t fwas the firstson w

ofalsoho aua curks. the fella closest to the plane. ut h four openings for a. he waedaolis. he decacroed he wounes try to gt into an annapolis. and then after thear, a ou brey32ers ced bec tir plan that was reailablhe was fine. he was the front runner the nmy peeho just about equal, but then on a

fi dal test down close to wherei live, virgir a beach, virgia, final test in hamon, v do fow sea pneouot nderaed. a lot of pbeliple s sp that a flyrnine opis re w w bd al t tr an raecmuor ris and changed and tenor coa letely when d reis and stanton died. meanadefe them, but they we not really part of thewbery small wornes of americn fliers. ..

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okay, the next two people that clencecarln osta and wiifin s pssl sconatd her type. he's kind of the movie star. he was a ladies man of the ai dreembn hi acpo. he icud er wo those pants at golfers were back in the 1920s that came above the knees. they are called plus for us. he wore ickers or longok weai wssupot lt could be. the fellow who owned the plne that chamberlin and acosta were chrlouitteat

naon pilot, a world-class pilot if he was e first to cross the atlantic because the owner rightly beeved tt fit on woceitigth atad s irs, bstso wd. and he w right for the time. but at this time,here were not reallyny rsilo. iats rebo thwearrm b osrem ere lots of military pilots, but the idea somebody who made their living as a pilot, as a testpl pi, wnu i eso tht htti idy rrt there is one bird. this photo was taken about 23 or

24, said this is either tak anm irow iexretting his ig s y a an air mail flyer. so he was not very well known at that time. he flew after gettg his wings in texas. staed a anto. nwerrm dt vlo sobe am rand then he joined the air mail. and when he was -- when he was flying the air mail fr st. uis cia teugch thuht hlfan tms t i like evybody else he thought fogg was going to win, but then he thought ii can stay awake for 4 hours, whch i've done this in mllt,he gh a aie htca hen toe ar

so, in his theory of how to do it was radically different ta. ed woris other pilot of that iss a photo of lindbergh shaking the hand of clarence chamrlin in front of the spir ost. ouiwith ir i hick on.ghquta we were talking about this. i one time i knew. i'm not sure whether or not he was the yogest player the fiel he mp n hunt. why bas young. obviously he towered over everybody else. when he had displayed developed, he wanted to make sure he had plenty of leg room.

ths hroustt,nt to be med niof is -- tns copilot, france while they were world war i aces. fr.were repaired by the ey eevesm e wob e fn lindbergh would be by the americans. and when n-guesser disappeared in the fight, it was a national tragedy. he has shown ea i shi hmanes nsht maker. and her mother had married one of the discoverers of the common stockd ieea hils vabicry orus

vanderbilt -- so vanderbilt was consuelo's father. the concert had miions and she'll udnnssdaesng whhem thsdn y toon have fared and she married him. but her father thought that all flares were disreputable and sa if he don't ive us an am g tt f yo loe wryot eil d sudit thmo ses buey a plan. non-guesser said that he would win an he would land at the base of the statue of lbrt eyeig te plao c loner thea dtoaohe and he was going to cnn.com paint, put on his medals and as bry w bokfrow his plane tothe

hi tat adaidor oer nd yl ver be separated again becau non-guesser rightly assumed that whoever was the first to cross the atlantic would makellis inghdd iaa. all evidence today seems to point to the fact that he wa indeed the first across the atnticnd dre mee eeefand oa cti thes encemt itt at rhwa shot down by a rum runner. this is prohibion. so if this is rgeser nobgmu ur hetemer prohibition.

thisis -- this is chamberlin once again and th owner of h luhs lchlevi levine owned this blog called the columbiappeared it was the best planef the bunch at the time. anibgwa ed em dulitoan fact, he more or less painted him as a duplicitous wihn sp o. s us coiahis rand then levine away from him at the last minute. levine was the first satltic ilnepser

lirgntosmy2, 21. chamberlin -- lindbergh wen across in may. ac i ued levie wn. wfur ler d. wathe only flyer who did not receive a letter of commendation from common glitch. sot levine. levine is that the one of the set piece. many called him may not end because he was always changing his mind. or he wasabed a th ma who ningh, t an yswa tmtl beofy lys. hebtni pln. as uncomfortable and

society. he was a gambl i term f liaolidea chte ascin tasoe whisperers crew, a man who is the presumptive winner is the ha tstidr eas evy reye hh. tharejigger their cruelest. bert acosta became one of the lo s havor n wt ges adian gele n okin was a norwegian who could fly by instruments, by compass and stuff like tht, something none of the other io o o p a o hi 'sauheew 4

urs a aouev e on ilthey hef wen t ann ve en. so when they crashed in france, that ttyuch e t ciac thpe wan o pteirgfi a number of them were women. the only woman to survive as ruth l. th l oabi ptwhheiv yoas lindbergh did. she was young, successful,. afr she was thoug tobengairnut h anchm epps dasut n bo. she was right or in alabama. she got married and oed t--

anmoidah bewakii a mall that was going on, she decided if a man can do this, why can't a woman to a uack so e was learning how to y. aanatkeloke sp o. s ht ac he -- distance and assured her. she named it the american girl she told the press as an american boy can have grea drms, y caanrn d we o e ia as zaurus and that she crashed in the sea, but she crashed inside of a norwegian tanker and save rry. er haret of o fs,

rstenwrld of celebrity because she said early on,anybody --tefr ma flac iin bmo goo e u oe dowao act life of the tunnel hygienist in florida. why should make it this? this is my way out. what is fascinating as many look ch, llthe anmhs ror t snang t mooit from women in all these women, you know, there was one letterfrm ma adend fiadd ofd bri food. all of them saw flying as their way out. and ruth asleubasdl

id tiimt. thayk le it. when she was inew york she was a huge success. see the ribbon around her hair every day she would come to evt fid with aint st iw qckly carrd with ribbons and all the girls in new york for root or events. it was a fashi staement. she crasedut aofr sh ari ll several times uping d secme gofears, she ae bue aidiwh bern her little home

in the hills in alabama for the land of florida. i mn, s kne sheante a ot did. of so does anybody have any questis? gas commissary. yeah, we ea k enka ti [inaudible] >> pranks are notsure. ar heneat ite heating? >> it didn't have heating, no. that would then -- that would've thola bensh

the close. the only planes that were completely close. with a singlengeplnin e it.ous. bird plan was about half closed. the canopy went up halfway and thent wan andeir.oo >>l, irg - could look out the side of his window and how they prscope innt imd sig heket sihe lag e 't really

need coming in now in a class glass and a friend. he had his gas tank in front of him. >> can ooequ i neintbd ast? u wlindbergh really late during th apollo 11 mission was not neilason, mellihoye iesu ae. m olns -- when collins was director of the air and space museum there is retrospective of lindbergh, it it tin s s50an n ndh alw the spirit of st. louis collins watched eminem on her came asau eyo ms know, of all of th

ve o n thle tisatlw e. it was just really interesting. [inaudible] >> yeah, so, eh o y uens s, a s ftothe ilve our airmenand what these wonderful stories bring to mind is someone li sullen buer. men ts d onaoah t i >>a sutf s no i think it is. i mean, he's revered. you're righ aming.ike they do something ovn astbs o. thxtig spurt like that is when we start to have space

pilots. i mean, we have te astront ur uoe ae s oiot atdu ahee g oe -- they're probably going to be the daredevil space pilots somewhere down the line. t'ouurrahree with you, yes. inigdependl wme i went to a lot of archives. but the star for the lindbergh archiv. in st. l, t thep ernguttefea en odales thplaeah ste ohio state. t some of guys collected books. ofm at ildiives on all so leads

cogef f t annd b tyr for. and i spent a lot of time. there a lot of guys come at lot of thecoleiolers mu.so h i nda tib ong, manuscript division has an incredible amount, as is the air and space msum. fw tee. fw s -te microphone. >> this question involves not to be spoken about. he was t on trfoe ap oe beb.esyubokuc not at all? >> a tiny bit. remember, mst of the boo

about the construction of lebrity in about this race, dit t well. and lindbergh's fall from grace was the most public and the most well known. fi rie g th pp.cour i thec ts ok itself. >> it was never 100% beaten and stoned that he was the person responsible. >>o. >> sinls ergo. heernghemhin e ivhehiwe lirgs n new jersey. >> there several lindbergh archives. the one on the trns-atlantic s n tca ciin l ese cah amou

. s. wsy rt. louis businessmen. and soe was getting, youknow, ferpdmsses hi entenn lom . s t en meum with all of his chunk and it became a kind of a pilgrimage place for everybody who worships lidbergh. ans actog rlnh,non t fi if you want to find out about his childhood can can you go the state historical society of minnesota. and if you want to find ououisat itt ahm beasanem y go to -- you go to heal where they have all f the archives on

erfist purvw ofrth pr alex trebek when they had shepherded the first time around i was a five-time champion and one of qstio thathey aswa wa2pe y rth atlc? no are talking -- >> we are talking so low and we are also talking -- saywa wat alhesttlnbe ss ic ewrwoisyen 1918 by the name of alcott and brown andthey won a 1,000 lo m aemuiihi a ali s fis

newspapers. the airplanes were much feebler than, thathey flew from wflaveoiein sth t auofth il. >> newundland -- >> various ways a world war i botner,ithnvi d here fo alt across. but i mean, you know, you're talking about a 3600-mile flight for lindbergh versus a1000l hto tan n. a o a ch ad publicity. you have movies, radios, newspers. you had phoph

u , mlio o yohd talkies. and theprice competition jt came at the right time for this wod tih omy ? ma'am. >> you spoke about ith al buried in the beginning you said there were a number of women soinreutm? it aos h heasenh n oayholecr om england, trying to make it to the nited states. she disappeared. she was no as hfyng yoveeeha i start researching a new book on

a lot of the old details start to go away, so forgive me. rely fnati w tnce tha was orils s w er r ifci ra trto fly acros in december and everybody was telling her, ts is suicidal. ane dn n.g tof rg. d havedf n revolts within her crew. and the day that she laughed, she was going to fly to newfoundla, srceegn d flross pue for her back pack or something like that and the reporter said somethi aot mb e uthy sh oanth .

thheaped dothshll ery board. but you know i mean, she was -- he was competing at the same time as ruth der. puitnaan.f e r. e 'tn track, but she was stern. and h waat. prasd cao e most o looks and she ws sweet to talk to everybody about the gross miavrnnde he cl orsefld because they were scared she was going to die. she got the owner of roosevelt

field alone and charm to the god of reopened. mean, she could get her way ano ci rcd cty d bf bruce elder did in the end result and crashedinto it make it in francis grace and took off. asheris a les reis e [iibar. ai wait, wait. we cannot be extemporaneous here. >> you mentioned icing. youet se er g ft now. >> before he died he got rid of the licensing of its name because he had a fight with e people hat were -- that are keeramis mp

waty. >> rn t cai hne be at laguardia airport when u.s. airways flight 50/50 crashed into flushing bay after aig f tro a ytg. wno. >>h, nw the french plane that disappeared the wave from brazil to france with the arrest masti,tl hithe samei esre considered glamorous. when i flew in yesterdaythey are on tarmac was a cha a private j and th o aninon la a tromp. it was donald trump's giant jet then i remembered i wndered

repoer imoreul'veeniwas reersyct d talk n exercis in excess. and so i wondered whether or not his plane was the same thing. >> he bought the trumpprincess naitteheebanguy whoond ome back there who wants to ask a question. >> didou get a chance to talk to crlesdb sam sn icwodat10year aoadifovth ntn single -- >> i heard about that. no, ddn't getto tattooing. dahter, ads causyovelindbergh's et esi- v relirgpesi dtylo

archives. it turned out i didn't need them. she never wrote me back and i didn't really pursue t. they're justifiay seitiv ihtuhttkw as fa ced. i talked to stay it wasstirs half sister, who was 10 year old when mr. crashed the thing i eep yo s atrecablafa nde oreyb w ey are some pain and there is a fellow by the name of -- i got an e-mail from a abclcecaertae name of the la owt ia theater over ip -- i'm sure and pointed in the wrong direction, but the cradle of civilization. thatwy

isamissil lvea ulvev knte chen s alive. and i would have loved to have talked to these people. i mean, chamberlain was a at w t'sae. - k ea tdthaonit t n't f it. there is a lot of prejudice and discrimination in here. i en,aigneslotf ntmim. heii 1927, they were african american flyers who wanted to fly, but the were few places that would let them fly. chamberlain was one of the few wept lcr.r ul hiou sd e in.

his name once -- what was his name? hube fautleroy julian. anr ou o y, c ul advertise -- advertisers would pay him to go over harlem and a red devil suit and jump out with a parachute and he uld trailte o uedihalaas an ialll jn hilhae he was going to be the first american flyer to fly from new york city to liberia. anige a rety ic p bseind ben lyh a saou're really not going to fly and not, are you? he said yeah, come along with me. the lan actually took off and withinhrco ld

eastivndias hoal a wk% lt i'tnk her again. but he was a really fascinating character. but i think he went on an aviation. iinstbecaen was the onlyperson ben on tny rstonitev he t y one who was not movie star caliber. wive, whev gnly way to get along arcop ustiit. he tnle k tonire w york, that i could find a new york during hat time, so it is really pretty interestg. stons anflol i think he's just a fascinating

fellow. any other questions? yes, ma'm. xcmet c es ame thleio grand son of lindbergh is supposed to be there. it next weekend? a hp etby nto thtlc dp financing, i understand the flight that camelia ehrhardt took as a passenger. >> there is alsotedsgr amaid aine ln hemada anro omah and, nebraska and her sister, margot brown came out from omaha wanted to be an art student ne o yoowe tunblilis on

deide ong e slayer. she decided during ts period she was also going to be the first woman to make it across theatlantic. e deded whenhddt hic, 'te bue fih stm sb wai that he would fly wit her if she footer row. and so she was going to slide around h nerme crala, s veodeaar aecte first licensed female plighted delaware. she also became one of only 25 lie tesaesotsdaplts d lty or th ytbrkind of had the quarte from delaware to

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okil men tais" s hedis ur nation. >> one of the things they want to do with this collection was focused on what we call the ways of war. debitelli s aroad wayf tywars era stus a owhat we call big wars. world war i, world w ii are twoeasy examples. amantobusosall ca. wars. for most of american history, u.s. military personnel have been invold in various levels of intent to the with cnts no eit igntty i tcu i se ers w of war and with that of course, some awareness of the human element and conflict.

or we star wih0. ce stofrg le,jtotlnt amr mof audience. we waved whether we want to see the french presence in nor erictyhe mee,wee hic 1 bsetcr tifus nte f ben enh le in the native populations of the chesapeake day. you know, another theme we wanted to underscore with exemplaryeadp. withoverstatthn llon wd iv e ftmre fs dial f meit history, documents from general patton, general macarthur, general eisenhower from the 20thentury. obviy olleion ke w worp o wagthoen

rtss tme down the command line or just a bit and give voice to some lieutenants, soe cat dance, said majors, some that e not so well knon r co morcoc lu ins florida today we might call these counterinsurgency operations or cification, but what he tried to dof crse was encouraged him to remove in relocate the dierrrtooi rtcoctthmi rs e d we t rs ie st i guess, perhaps the most expansive of stability civilian military language. this one bog me down fetes elts i. er i nepters with speeches from presidents, congressmen, politicians, particularly the casthat declared wars. we also include commissioned

studies n orag thrv te rd century. so there's a couple documents that relate to it and of course the gates commsio in 1971 and w susfivl cu ie e i s eanteory a conscription-based recruitmt process to an all volunteer force, the one we know today. hsnrmou imp t urndogy h taro aoi in s 80 we've seen the percentage perfect good tohp. orwaitenr % 1%

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it came om asef wag blng thiserngut y mearidvs he it calling. and so it's not the same thing as a transport giving giving you a al 'srehame r thndote es anntresta.n i point to some of those documents. i love the story, for instance, the need to go then choose monroe who attended college of coe utinifnt exethotoayn ol in mthwan choice when the war began to break out, he was pulled in his own words to join the third virginia regiment. he was pulled o e tcn hi gouus ldcseil t. f himself when it come

upon themselves thmore the country he'd ever seen before and found himself the midst tmenio unae pdef he we por isdsta to shift, if it does? >> without betraying too much of my own cicism and ptm, wi oer.to d i hriwa scngrt hpad urrelad to organization. modernization is of course demonstrated by techolog hhige f ucn. s nsedy as ctorcemens me rdtini that process the sense of abundance and opportunity proliferated. what that of course is the consciousness of the 20th century of h, h

stalwolio an pcuy t d i,wrd a ii, many individuals may be thought these conflicts and the situations not necessarily as a matter of ivn ecs erch. son thabth thtuthse ec evce system in 1917, the emphasis upon conscription or called the 90 division gambling in world war ii to fill out he ranks. vim, h ire ne in the aea o tevindte iewg om distance. this enhances the consciousness on the art of a lot of people in uniform that their service is onoption aogy thot beacees t s to use that asa

strength. in other ord this choice of service is one that's actually in your st cosi aedthte by administration highlights the incentives, financial and otherwise could actually build a stronger seritary is of courseewa wplb foin 1 rye exemplifies the consciousness of choice. i was really surprised by the level of awareness and undetaing tn fe onndfoxped resfof erkno stereotype of hollywood films that many soldiers don't know why they fight, that they rntae eontd nteayul gnt eison

fao ematter he found again and again, even in the early documents when individuals in somcaseare barely literate, they were epressing efirch ct ttoec rgcmtb u e struggles. we called this may be ideology and why we may present the soldiers are not ideological, they just smes joqwl awoft 'rina why and the old phrase of john ford's documentary for world war ii, many soldiers already know why they fight. tehetht'ybena ta c f t mmunities. oliver wenell holmes, a lieutenant colonel and the american civil war and later became justice of the supreme

court said in a speech in 1884 hed sis g inwaryo fundamental pect of all fours, small, big -- of course the big en he wastigcap,h ok ord,i da f the leave them wanting something with all your might. i think that transcends and is certainly a dimension of the art of war that islmost universal, of ymi ggens wit miverly spiritual, this is some thing that is a little bit alien to usperhaps in the 21st century. i k ioor ayalndceay to ithelof

a ng yourself fully is the highest form of compassion and love is to givyour all to someing. itink's densi o anen searro wthiss liarsstogl d more about skulking, ambushes, sneaking up on an evn e cnfs, tianog, war.snihe iisa total abortion in some kind of the purpose. although sometimes like to think of ourselves as niqu trar simot rsinugt recognize is even broader than themselves. i think i may be from my perspective a scene that some

other readers might find quite tein. iofvihti pa tr tr h u de vam particular. in the 196s, maybe this feeling of obligation and service was shakena bit, tht.li in e rehe turef thobaroerror and returning the soldiers are not cannot stand and iraq, maybe agof itaofomacknoent vas tma tlohuan e element most in this book. >> for more information on booktv'srctsi ffn , ound vo tntvhleo t

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