however we are very fortunate and it is such an honor for me to introduce to you all deane keller's otherler and his wife, judy. thank you very much. [applause] >> i recall reading a quotation by president kennedy that said a nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but the men it honors and the men it remembers and by that standard we as a country data very poor job because we don't remember, we did know this amazing remarkable legacy of our country during the most destructive conflict in history and we paid a horrible price for it in the years that followed, not having monuments officers'. in particular in the aftermath of the moving of the national museum of iraq and baghdad in 2003, this is one of the things that i created the monument's foundations for the preservation of art to do not only to preserve the legacy of these great heroes but put it to use so we can reestablish the united states leadership in the protection of cultural treasures. one of the things we did was interview a modern-day monuments officer, 01, korean wagoner, who served, had distinguished service i

this is what it used to look like, and this is what it looked like by the time deane keller arrived. is symbol of mandela that was painted and very severely blistered. keller's great concern and insight knowing the weather in florence and having -- in pisa and having been in italy so often is what would happen when the fall rains came and wash off what remained on the walls eliminated any possibility for repairs. so army engineers constructed this innovative design to try and deflect rain water away from the walls and allow time for a permanent roof to be built. deane keller died in 1992 but not before having visited pisa with his son dino in 1965, some 21 years later after having first arrived in pisa. and this boy whom he had sent these drawings to from his arrival in pisa and these enduring drawings celebrating the absences of christmas worked for eight years with italian officials to make it possible for his father's remains to be buried in the one place he was convinced they should be buried, which was the campo santo. so this is the tombstone where deane keller's remains are and

it is almost impossible to describe the conditions in the environment in deane keller. in addition, the infamous dr. mandela joyfully sending thousands of people to their death, he was also in charge of the most famous, sadistic, brutal experiments performed in modern times. castration is were two of them -- i saw them. i can even describe it. you should have seen the build on those men, and the women. i saw them. their heads shaven, their faces grimaced in excruciating pain walking on all fours, not even the slightest resemblance to a human being, not to mention the experiments on children. it is just horrible. on the eve of yom kippur, the day of atonement, the holiest day for the jewish people, my brother was already taken away and sent to a camp in germany, they came in to our camp and our camp -- the gypsy camp because there were 35,000 romans in this camp and in order to make room for the men from the large get no favor taken to the gas chambers and kills but the names still remained and was called that. they came in that evening and were very well aware how they