and halfway around the world on guadalcanal. now tarawa, pork chop hill, the chosin reservoir. and in 100 rice paddies and jungles of a place called vietnam, under one such marker lies a young man, martin, trapped down, who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to france with the famed rainbow division there on the western front. he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. we're told that on his body was found a diary on the flyleaf under the heading. my pledge. he had written these words. america must win this war. therefore, i will work. i will save. i will sacrifice. i will endure. i will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone. the crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that martin tracked down. so many thousands of others were called upon to make. it does, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds, to believe that together with god's help, we can and

and halfway around the world on guadalcanal. now tarawa, pork chop hill, the chosin reservoir. and in 100 rice paddies and jungles of a place called vietnam, under one such marker lies a young man, martin, trapped down, who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to france with the famed rainbow division there on the western front. he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. we're told that on his body was found a diary on the flyleaf under the heading. my pledge. he had written these words. america must win this war. therefore, i will work. i will save. i will sacrifice. i will endure. i will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone. the crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that martin tracked down. so many thousands of others were called upon to make. it does, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds, to believe that together with god's help, we can and

word of the battle for midway guadalcanal and the marines in the gilbert islands were smuggled into theamp by internee ese who worked outside the walls and from the camp's hidden radio. then, in may 1943, the japanese to open another internment camp at los banos, 50 miles away. the first draft was to be 800 able bodied men and go up to set up the camp because i think the japanese really planned to move all the internees out of the city of manila. well, after we started, the first thing we thought about was to try to get something to eat. and we could see a chicken outside the barbed wire fence. and the only thing we could think about to try to get their chicken so we could make some stew or something to eat us. but we had a lot of bedbugs that came up to los banos with us. the man had these bazooka beds, beds that had little holes in them, and they were just the idea, a place for breeding. but the philippines learned the philippine way of getting rid of them. you put your or your spring outside and put a little sugar on it and attract the ants and the ants went into the little holes and

word of the battle for midway, guadalcanal and the marines in the gilbert islands was smuggled into theoutside the walls and from the camp's hidden radio. [ plane engines ] [ explosions ] >> then in may, 1943, the japanese decided to open another internment camp at los banos 50 miles away. >> the first draft was to be 800 able-bod ed able-bodied men and go up to set up camp because the japanese planned to move the internees out of the city of manila. well, after we started the first thing we thought about was to try to get something to eat, and we could see a chicken outside the barbed wire fence, and the only thing we could think about was to try to get that chicken so we could make some stew, something to eat. >> we had a lot of bedbugs that came up to los banos with us because the men had these beds that had little holes in them and they were just the ideal place for breeding, but we learned the philippine way of getting rid of them. you put your spring outside, and put a little sugar on it and attract the ants and the ants went into the holes and put bedbugs and put scalding water o

the american entry into the second world war, the united states had won the battles of midway and guadalcanal and stood on the verge of clearing all axis forces from north africa. wilson's peacemaking fared even worse than his war, making the treaty of versailles and the league of nations. i recall today, as monuments to wrecked hopes and doomed ambitions. so why raise a voice against against the condemnation of later generations? here's why. the generations that elevated wilson, the people who worked. on the scene and active from the 1940s to the 1990s perceived his as acutely as we as we do. if anything, they perceived those failures more acutely since they had personally paid the price in blood and suffering for the failure of peacemaking in 1919. but they also understood it again much more acutely than we. what wilson was trying to do during woodrow wilson's presidency. the united states, the greatest of the world's great powers. how should that power be used? some americans of wilson's day believed that the power should not be used at all. such americans like wilson's former secretary of