this holiday weekend, on american history tv on c-span 3, saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on real america, the 1977 documentary "men of bronze" about the all black 369th u.s. infantry regiment known as the harlem hell fighters, during world war i. >> approximately 24 germans attacked. and needham roberts got slugged almost immediately. and johnson fought them off. he shot and he caught and he swung his knife around and defeated the 24th germans, those not wounded or killed cut out. he had 21 wounds in his body and he refused to die. >> sunday at 9:10 p.m., historian and author elizabeth

cobbs on the women telephone operators of the u.s. army signal corp. >> in france before they got this lineup, that metropolitan the local operator had to speak to a french operator and they had to talk and most did not parlevu so they have to get bilingual women to do the job and not because they were as good as men, otherwise you would just use men, because at least at this job they were better than them. >> and monday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, we'll visit the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri and talk with the curator, authors richard faulkner and yoko masso and the ceo matthew nailer. >> we seek to tell the story through the lives of people. ordinary people of men and women and volunteers and as well as those who served in the armed

forces from all sides. >> for our complete american history tv schedule go to c-span.org. regardless of your background, remember where you came from. hold on to the way so many of you reached out to mentor young persons through the colby cares about kids. hold on to the way you engaged in this community. and make sure to bring that commitment to whatever walk of life you choose. >> bravery, not perfection, was the key that unlocked every door that i have walked through since. it took me 33 years to figure out that brown girls can do white guy things, too. >> as soon as you understand that you are here because of a lot of help, then you also understand that now is time to help others. that is what this is all about. >> saturday night, at 8:00

eastern, 2017 commencement speeches. this weekend speakers include former california governor arnold schwarzenegger at the university of houston and joe biden at colby college in maine and girls who code founder at scripps college in california. arizona governor doug ducey at amery riddle aeronautical university in joint based andrews. javier gonzalez at new mexico highlands university and rick snyder at adrian community college in michigan. saturday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span and c-span.org. in the 2018 budget, the trump administration is requesting $44 billion for the department of homeland security. 6.8% more than the current year. homeland security sect john kelly talked about his department's budget at a senate appropriation sub-committee hearing. this is