when a morning. on wednesday morning but to show up for work, right? that the notion that freedom should had them larger sort of configuration has been lost. how to get the american people to engage in that conversation, you know, i confess i do not know. but to my mind, that is where the real need is. >> i would like to reach onto that, too, that pain to cut the american people a little bit at lack, it seems that americans are so busy worrying about all those things i referred to earlier. how are they going to pay the rent i asked where they going to get a job? everybody scrambling around. that is the antithesis of

freedom. that is being captive to a socialist system that is broken down because the country, in my view, has devoted all his energies to this military-industrial congressional complex and below processes using the war machine to shift the money from the public treasury to the pockets of the already rich. and then coming back and cutting whatever services might have given some relief to the general population and given them time inc. about, aren't i lucky to be an american and live in a country like this? battled kennedy spoke in code now i can think about what i can do from my neighbors and my country when i have a little bit of security to be a will to do that.

so, you talk in your book about fdr's' strategy and has guiding the country through the second world war in ways that were successful militarily and also brought an enrichment to the life of the country and involved everyone in the war, in the war effort in ways that united the country so we came out -- i hope i'm not distorting your view. we came out better all around, whereas the war we prosecute now impoverished the country and every one of those ways and leaves the whole country worse off than it was before. a few projects the cost of these worse ahead, the trillions of dollars it will cost as just to care for the returning wounded

soldiers. what chance are americans going to house? when inspiration are they going to have to involve yourselves in this? [applause] >> i know you mentioned the school once. i am a sophomore. i know that all the soldiers and professors were a one times due to the students from today could be soldiers at tomorrow. in my history class was laid bernadette u.s. revolution, world war i and world war ii. my question is, do you think if we learn about modern war and open the mind of this unit too could become future soldiers change the minds of the soldier

without knowing? how could we change the minds of the students? is a lifesaver. do you guys have any tories of kid, what they think about their parents who combats for more? i came from a country and i am in a country that i feel peaceful that you guys say is that war. >> well, let me try what i understood to be the first part of the question, which dealt

with the history we learned. yesterday was better and day, right? last night i flipped on the tube and the longest day was on tv. older folks remember that make a movie. i lasted about a day and included every male star in hollywood in one part or another. john wayne, henry fonda and on and on. all about the d-day invasion. and a tale of heroism although i was struck by how hollywood has chosen not a moment to portray the year germinal is this true gentleman who stood like adolf hitler. now, the point of that is the

history we learn in the military history we learned that gets taught in our schools are shown on prime time television is the history of the to emphasize world war ii, the civil war may be to some degree the revolutionary war. whatever one can say about those com click and their political purposes and consequences, and they just are of a different category than the wars of our time today. what i'm trying to say is what i think we need is a different historical narrative, but the concerns and issues that are going to matter to you as a citizen of the 21st century,

they are not really going to be shaped, in my judgment, that world is too. to put it lightly, economical lessons of world war ii are pretty much irrelevant and i think almost is. the lessons of war that we need to learn probably at the lessons of our conflicts beginning in vietnam and going up to the present day. and they don't tell the story of the jury, heroism, ideals, triumphant. they tell is far murkier and more morally reduce turi. it is not as satisfying but it is far more relevant. so we need to tell a different historical turi and i think we can take away different lessons that are more relevant to the present moment. >> said i would like to jump off

from the part of your question was asked, what can we tell the student to give them a different picture of war? i want to give everybody here and take away assignment, please because in researching for my vote, i visited schools in the boston area that had junior artiste e. in the classroom. and if a student in a boston school for at least those i've visited and rolled in junior rotc, which they might do at the age of 14 of the team, they will be excused and learn nothing about american history except what they are taught who are with all due respect to you, sir, retired colonel.

you laugh, but i want to bring the seriousness of this home to you by saying if you go to the veterans day parade, you lost oc rank after rank after rank of children who are members of the jay rotc was verified proudly getting ready to enlist in the military and the recruiters are in their school spirit if this were any place else in the world, would pilot recruitment of child soldiers and that is not what we call it here. so i think going to your schools and look at what is happening and you'll see why you person asked such a question. so many young people are getting a very different message and are

in my view strong-armed shanghai into the military. [applause] >> hi. my question refers to the notion that's been brought up a few times that the current wars are going on indefinitely. i was in the military during the vietnam war and the veteran -- i mean come the career soldiers at the time who i spoke to about what was going on in the various conflicts he had been in, including the viet conflict, they say generally they were wars to obtain a raw materials resources. i had been watched the progression of subsequent wars.

.. i tend to think that explanation is not sufficient. there are certainly people who would argue quite strongly that there's a one word answer to why we invaded iraq and a one word answer is oil. i don't think