even so, stories continue to come to light about some of the victims of the holocaust. recently, newshour special correspondent martin fletcher learned what's being done to honor the life and works of one woman, one of the six million victims. his piece is a collaboration with milwaukee public television. >> reporter: when the nazis occupied czechoslovakia in 1939, tens of thousands of jews applied for visas to anywhere, and among them paul strnad and his wife hedwig, nicknamed hedy. their best hope to save their lives was help from their cousin alvin, thousands of miles away in milwaukee, wisconsin. so, on december 11, 1939, paul wrote him this letter. >> you may imagine that we have a great interest of leaving europe as soon as possible. >> reporter: and paul hoped he had an ace up his sleeve-- these drawings, eight beautiful dresses and all accessories, down to hat pins and shoes, purses and gloves. modern. elegant. his wife hedy was a seamstress, a dress designer. could alvin find a firm in milwaukee who'd hire hedy and sign an affidavit to grant the couple visas to

the holocaust is a near-successful attempt to obliterate... less than a decade an entire civilization. this is beyond human comprehension, and you don't repress the fact that it happened, but you allow a ring of unknowing to surround it because you can't-- what was it like on the slave ship? what was it like in auschwitz? our great good fortune, in a way, is to not actually know directly. gates: decades before the holocaust, alan dershowitz's ancestors naftali and blima ringel held onto their religious orthodoxy when they fled anti-semitic violence in galicia. alan took me back to the borough park synagogue, where his family once worshiped. dershowitz: this synagogue is about 100 years old. borough park is one of the only neighborhoods that has always been jewish. that is, it was not a neighborhood until the jews moved in here around 1900, and this is one of the first synagogues built in the neighborhood, and it's built in the tradition of the great polish synagogues with the high dome. oh, my god, look at that. yeah. gates: we found out that

with germans and the holocaust, did we know what was going on? a lot of soldiers did not know until they stumbled across it. when you publish things like that, the first seen the american people had as the japanese as a whole of what they are doing in china or the philippines. >> i want to tie this -- if you 60, i think that the comment is made about -- this is the first full paragraph, the commission also argues that the current conflict in japan was inseparable from to fundamental development, westward expansion and racial struggles. had been interacting in the pacific since the 1800's. the commodore opened up japan in the 1840's. we may not be as familiar as the japanese as with the germans, but we had interactions for at least 100 years on a national level, cultural level. so i think when you take that into consideration of the next chapter, do we not have notions of the japanese or what they are prior to the beginning of the war? >> let's go to lucas. i was replying to him. then over to chris. >> there are notions, but it is not like the gro

as you can see they've titled it holocaust amnesia day. then under a picture of a stack of corpses, people killed in the holocaust, the post says sarcastically, i cannot believe it crept up on me today. it's holocaust memorial day and i'm fresh out of onions. the implication is how am i going to force myself to pretend to cry over the holocaust which may or may not have happened! yeah. this is alternative right. this is the guy who fought with randy scheunemann on the ski lift in montana and who the town of whitefish, montana, is freaking out about him running his business out of it. this guy, his name is jason richwine. you see the post is called model minority question mark. this is jason richwine's posts at alternative right. this one happens to be about how hispanics are inherently disposed to criminal behavior. he argues in this post that you can statistically control for all other factors and you still end up with this racial innate truth that hispanics are just more criminally minded than white people are. this is jason richwine. he

for example, the notion of human rights did not gain preponderance until after the holocaust. that was fairly sobering. >> and at the same time, don't we -- the things that are happening -- the things that are happening -- i guess this leaves to and as i read this, one of the things, the lindbergh example. in the war without mercy, it talks about charles lindbergh basically traveling to the front in new guinea, right? now what is his take on what is , going on? because i think he has a very clear perception of how the war is being conducted in the south pacific. and what is his views on that? yep? >> well, the much -- pretty much increasingly, the japanese were viewed as subhuman. there was not that feeling like in europe where these soldiers, they were courageous and doing their duty. it was not the same outlook for the japanese, they were viewed as fanatical. whereas if an american talked about dying for his country, they will be viewed as honorable. but if a japanese was seen as leading a courageous charge against the americans, they would be seen as fanatical and zealous.

for example, the notion of human rights not until after the holocaust. that was fairly sobering. >> don't we -- the things that are happening -- the things that guess thisng -- i leaves two and as i read this, one of the things, the lindbergh example. in the war without mercy, it talks about charles lindbergh basically traveling to the front in guinea. what is his take on what is going on? he has a very clear perception of how the war is being conducted in the south pacific. and what is his views on that? yep? >> increasingly, the japanese were viewed as subhuman. it was not that feeling like in ,urope where these soldiers they were courageous and doing their duty. it was not the same outlook for the japanese, they were viewed as maniacal. if an american talked about dying for his country, they will be viewed as honorable. asa japanese was seen leaving a courageous charge of this americans, they would be seen as fanatical and the zealous. >> to draw a dichotomy, the war of the european front put into a cult -- put into a political construct. yes. from th

if you think a holocaust denier shouldn't be the ceo -- >> can you equate gay rights with the holocaust outrageous, and yo said under no circumstances should a ceo not get a job because of his political position. we all agree under some circumstances he should/(ñnot. >> of course the guy was comparing the holocaust to gay rights. joining us now from miami, bernie goldberg. and youqsay? >> i say, bill, that if you lose your job because you have an incorrec4ba%%q%=9zez same-sex marriage, that's a pretty good example of liberal intolerance. ÷ orthodoxy on certain issues like same-sex marriage,ç you're expected to march lock step and if you don't you will be purged. you may/ man did, butç you'll certainlye called a çbigot. what's interested, the liberals that work at this company and other places like this, they worshipç at the alter of diversity,ç skin color, ethnic diversity, sexual orientation. but there's one diversity they wantç tolerate, diversity of opinion on matters importanpç t them. that's why thoseç liberals hav forgotten to be liberal. bill, for theç record, i suppo sam

denier shouldn't be the ceo, then -- >> -- gay rights with the holocaust?us. >> it is outrageous and you said that under no circumstances should a a ceo not get his job because of his political positions. i am saying that we actually all agree that under some circumstances he should not. >> well, of course the guy was comparing the holocaust to gay rights. joining us now from miami, the purveyor of berne nod goldberg.com, mr. goldberg. and you say? >> i say, bill, that if you lose your job because you have an incorrect position onlbç,,fs same sex marriage, thn that's a pretty good example of liberal intolerance this is what liberal orthodoxy looks like. on certain issues like same sex marriage you are expected to march in lock step. if you don't you will be purged you may not lose your job like this guy at mozilla you will certainly be called a bigot. what's interesting is the people at mozilla. liberals work at mozilla and other places like that. they worship at the altar of diversity, skin color diversity.pojvy ethnic diversity. sexual or tennation divers

one person escaped the holocaust but many in his family did not.young boy, attended stanford and built a successful real estate business turning his attention to philanthropy, he's been part of a project about the other side of poe lib jews. why has it been so important for you directly? >> i think the history of how jews lived for 1,000 years prior to the holocaust is virtually unknown. and we felt that's a very important story to tell. >> to tell the story, a state-of-the-art facility that sits on the site of the warsaw ghetto where hundreds of thousands of jews were forced to live before being taken to the death camps. i visited with several holocaust survivors including linda who spent three years at the notorious auschwitz. 60 years after she walked out of auschwitz, she walked in again with me. when you stand here at auschwitz, linda, now 60 years later, do images, emotions run through your mind? >> i have no emotions here. >> no emotions here? >> no emotions here. >> later on our trip, understandably, the emotions came. we stayed in touch un

ted was born in krakow, escaping the holocaust, but many of his family did not., attended stanford and built a successful real estate business, turning much of his attention and mono to philanthropy. he's been part of a massive project to tell the other side of the story about polish jews. >> why has it been so important for you, ted, to be so involved directly. >> i think the history of how jews lived for a thousand years prior to the holocaust is virtually unknown and we felt that was a very, very important story to tell. >> reporter: to tell that story the museum of the history of polish jews, a state-of-the-art facility that lives on the site of the warsaw ghetto where hundreds of thousands of jews were forced to live before being taken to the death camps. i visited those camps nine years ago with several bay area holocaust survivors including linda brayer who spent three years at auschwitz. she walked in again with me. >> when you stand here at auschwitz, linda, now, 60 years later, do images, emotions race through your mind? >> i have no emotions here. >> n

ted towby was born in krakow, escaping the holocaust, but many in his family did not.errored and build a successful real estate business. turning to philanthropy. he's been part of a massive project to tell the other side of the story about polish jews. >> why has it been so important for you, ted, to be so involved in this so directly. i think the history of how jews lived for a thousand years prior to the holocaust is virtually unknown and we felt that that's a very, very important story to tell. >> to tell that story, the museum of the history of polish jews, a state-of-the-art facility that sits on the site of the warsaw ghetto where hundreds of thousands of jews were forced to live before being taken to the death camps. i visited those camps nine years ago with several bay area holocaust survivors including linda broader who spent three years at the notorious auschwitz. 60 years after she walked out of auschwitz, she walked in again with me. >> when you stand here with me now 60 years later, do images, emotions race through your mind? i have no emotions here. >> n

even when he was sleeping, the holocaust was still so much a part of him. he could never let it go. >> instead of enjoying freedom, he was bitter and abusive. as a little girl, she did her best to avoid him but his behavior had a damaging effect on everyone for decades. >> i am the one that remained the victim. i lived in the internal health. i've realized that i need to let it go because it was madness hanging on to all that negative emotion. here is a picture of my family. >> the solution seemed simple, forgiveness. on her father's death bed she told them she forgive him. but it wasn't enough. she thought if only he could have forgiven the not seize the could have lived a happier life. so she traveled to the scene of the massacre that have haunted him. i stood there, crying like a child again. i had forgiven all those who had murdered my family and were perpetrators of the holocaust. my family carried this lineage of the suffering and i did not want to carry the burden any more. >> that should have been the end of the story. but a man broke into her home

holocaust memorial museum in washington. >> kristallnacht is actually a euphemism in german.t means the "night of broken glass" or crystal night because there were so many synagogue and home and business windows smashed so the streets of many german cities were literally strewn with broken shards of glass. thousands of businesses and synagogues and homes destroyed, 91 people literally beaten to death on the street, 30,000 jewish people arrested and taken to concentration camps. it was a shock in germany itself. kristallnacht went on actually for about 48 hours and it became open season. you had people watching the synagogues burn, you had people looting the businesses that been plundered. you had people joining in on the violence. in germany both the catholic and the protestant churches for the most part were silent about what had happened. you have a very few pastors who speak out against this, who actually preached sermons condemning the violence. you do have people in both churches who are supporting what is going on, certainly support its anti-semitism. you have a minorit

she and another holocaust. this beloved feeling he had for his father really was the engine that drove him to the personal parts and then of course his whole character was based on we have to build this museum. we have to have a place where new yorkers can go, children can go and see what has happened and can never happen again. >> we are near the end. what question have we not ask you that we should have asked to? [laughter] >> i don't know. you have been pretty thorough. you have been an investigative reporter. >> the book is "timeless" and the author is lucinda franks. it's been wonderful being with you hear lucinda. >> thank you so much. you are amazing. you are amazing. [applause] and thank you, all of you for coming. [applause] this week in booktv's in colorado springs colorado with the help of our local cable partner comcast. next anne hyde authors of "empires, nations and families" takes a look at the multiethnic inhabitants of the louisiana purchase. >> the premise of the book is pretty simple, that no

. >> looking back on liberating a concentration camp and a holocaust. history tends to repeat itself. what is going on today with the murder and genocide across the world. what are your thoughts about that? maybe the world hasn't learned? >> i do address that subject. it's a good question. i do address that subject and i write it in my book and that is that we cannot be indifferent when these things are happening around the world, not happening to us. but we can't be indifferent when inhumanity is being expressed and these things are going on. we can't say that doesn't affect us. it does. maybe it doesn't affect us directly but it affects us as people and what we believe in and what we stand for and what we fought for and what we were willing to die for. and when we see that, i say we cannot be indifferent to what is happening to other people around the world. we tend to dismiss it here. but we can't. and i think if the holocaust taught us anything it is we cannot be indifferent to these things because that's not the kind of people we are as americans.

what i thought was right, i followed my own conscience, and i helped some, i terribleprevent the holocaust of nuclear war. >> all weekend long, american history tv is joining our charger cable partners to showcase the history of madison, wisconsin. to learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit c-span.org/localcontent. we continue with our look at the history of madison, wisconsin. this is american history tv on c-span3. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to wisconsin's state capital. we're standing in the rotunda of the building. a this is the public area of the capital. this is where we have our parties and presentations. when you walk up, you will see a white stone building. that is stone we got from vermont. stone from all over the world. eight different states. only a little bit of the stone is actually from wisconsin. a great big dome also covered with granite. we have the only state capital to completely cover the exterior in granite. we have a statue up on top. we call her "wisconsin." on top of her helmet is a badger. we have "wisconsin" facing towards the nation's capital. she weighs over 60

. >> looking back on liberating a concentration camp and a holocaust. history tends to repeat itself. what is going on today with the murder and genocide across the world. what are your thoughts about that? maybe the world hasn't learned? >> well, i do address that subject. it's a good question. i do address that subject and i write it in my book and that is that we cannot be indifferent to when these things are happening around the world, not happening to us. but we can't be indifferent when inhumanity is being expressed and these things are going on. we can't say, well, that doesn't affect us. it does. maybe it doesn't affect us our security directly but it affects us as people and what we believe in and what we stand for and what we fought for and what we were willing to die for. and when we see that, i say we cannot be indifferent to what is happening to other people around the world. we tend to dismiss it here. but we can't. and i think if the holocaust taught us anything it is we cannot be indifferent to these things, wherever they might happen, b

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the more distant the holocaust, the harder it is to make it real for even your children. for even your children. but it's important. >> more than 100 people will be speaking at the conference this weekend, including nbc meet the press moderator chuck todd. we have information on a virus that could bring down your iq. you'll want to hear this. plus, seasonal hiring. why this year is different and it's a sign of hope for retailers and job seekers. and coming to america, reports of another royal visit that could include young pri >>> right now, you can window shop for health insurance and compare options at healthcare.gov. you won't be able to actually choose a plan until saturday when the enrollment period begins. from that point, you'll have three months to make your selection. the health and human services secretary will talk about the options this afternoon. we're going to let you know what she says. here's a new health risk to tell you about. apparently there's a viral infection going around that's linked to poor brain function. typically found in algae. now it's being

. >>> the world once faced the nazis and the result is the holocaust.s invasion of ukraine, terrorism of isis. the senator issued the spirited young award, special recognition named for carski, diplomat and member of the polish underground, who was the first official to warn the world about the holocaust during world war ii. he went undercover and infiltrated the nazi war machine himself. in 1943, met with president franklin roosevelt in the oval office and detailed his firsthand accounts of the concentration camps and mass extermination of jews. senator mccain says the lessons of carski are still with us. >> horrors of the last century unfolded because good people too often fail to stand by their values and recognize what was at stake for them in the suffering of others. shame on awful us if we let history repeat itself and we neglect our duty to support the courageous people around the world who are struggling and dying for the values of rule of law and human rights. >> his awards with given by the educational foundation. karski became a professor at

. >>> a holocaust survivor and her protecter together again for the first time since the end of world two. "fox news" chief religion correspondent lauren green is there for the moving reunion. >> reporter: the year 1939, hitler's germany a attacks pol an, britain forced to declare war on germane. for jewness europe is there in safe place. such was place for polish connection letter family that operated a million in million of the family. but they were in great danger to themselves hid them, mir was just five, helena just 13. both families survived war and they have not seen each other for 69 years, until this week. emotional reunion as now elderly woman saw each other for the first time since the war. i think my heart will explode from happiness said helen a i never thought i would be given the chance to see mira. she was very controlled but a lot of emotion. helen a recounted danger. >> it happened sometime she was staying the night with her mother and germans were staying a hundred feet from our house. >> reunion was arrange by jewish foundation for righteous an organization that br

i've been to the holocaust museum at d.c. i think everyone should go.rgentina, he's right here. >> jimmy: i think it's the blonde, it's the pale. >> you know what? i actually, i think i'm too pale for hitler, right? hitler would have said, i said aryan, not snowman. [ laughter ] i mean, meet me -- by the way, that's how hitler sounded. >> jimmy: he sounds like sammy davis jr. ♪ i'm hitler baby the hitler man can ♪ [ laughter ] >> oh, i know what i look like. >> jimmy: the hitler man can. yeah. >> i'm a very, very white guy. i'm like utah. you know what i mean? [ laughter ] i'm not saying i don't forget what i look like, you know? you ever forget what you look like and then you look in a a mirror and you're like, "oh, no! [ laughter ] when did that happen?" because during the day i'm brad pitt, i'm brad -- i'm john goodman. well you know -- >> jimmy: you look good. >> it's not fair. >> jimmy: you have a new book here, "food: a love story." you've got five kids. i mean, you're a busy guy, you're touring, what do you do to relax? what do you just do to cal

my grandparents were holocaust survivors. up with a didn't grow lot. knowing i was the first generation have a little bit of something, i wanted to not receive anything and i wanted to work harder than everyone to make myanmar. >> you went to college the school didn't sue you it seems. >> i went to emory anniversary. i found myself wanting to do business, not sit in class. i started selling fake ids. i realized i was going to get caught. >> you became a promoter when you were 19? >> the reason i dropped out of school's is because there was a guidance counselor. he told me the story of robert woodruff. robert woodruff is one of billion. this is almost impossible. >> i think i understand now. >> did you prove him wrong? >> i don't think he cares. >> do you care? kid tobecause i want my go to college someday. he told me that i should not believe in my dream. while we are young, this is when we should take chances. >> i read a book about one of the founders of dreamworks. i read another book about richard branson. >> you became quite a celebrity on the atl

my grandparents were holocaust survivors and my parents did not grow up with a lot, really nothing.owing i was the first generation to have a little bit of something, i wanted to not receive anything and i wanted to work harder than everyone to make my own mark in the world. >> you went to college but school did not suit you, it seems. >> yeah, i went to emory university in atlanta. i found myself wanting to do business, not wanting to sit in class. unfortunately, i started selling fake ids for about two months and then i realized i was going to get caught. i was really good though. >> they worked? >> they worked. >> you became a promoter, a party promoter when you were 19? >> yes. i was throwing all the 21 and up parties and i was 19. the reason i dropped out of school was there was a guy who sat me down and told me the story of robert woodruff, the guy of coca-cola, the largest endowment at emory. i thought, this is great. he gets me. at the end, he tells me that robert woodruff was one in a billion and a chance of you being a robert woodruff is almost impossible. you need to stay

. >> police secure in germa are instiging the theft of the notorious nazi sign at thedachau holocaust memorial museum in munich. >> it is not the first time it has and vandalized. >> this is the gate people expect to walk through when they visit the dachau concentration camp. but sunday morning, it was discovered that someone stole the door overnight. police will have a harder time tracking down the culprits since there was no survey at -- there was no video surveillance of the site. >> we have guards on duty who patrol the premises several times a night. but the premises of this size cannot be completely secured unless we turn it into a high-security tract, and that would fly in the face of a proper sense of dignity here. >> the complex near munich was the first concentration camp set up by the nazi just weeks after hitler came to power in 1933. more than 100,00 people -- more than 30,000 people were murdered here. the sign was stolen from the auschwitz concentration camp, and the the was linked to british neo-nazis. >> richard branson has rejected allegations that he ignored warning

she was targeted personally, people said, people accuse her -- she was a holocaust survivor, and they accused her of genocide. it comes back on just what happened after this. a couple of months after on january 17, the law was adopted, but it was a fragile lot it still needs to be defended 40 years later. >> flo thank you so much for that interesting stuff. time now for business on "france 24." and we have got stephen carroll with us here on the set. we are going to start with this new growth plan for europe that was announced by the president of the european commission. >> that it's right. the jump cables that europe needs to kickstart its economy. he announced a 315 billion euros, mostly private investment, going to be used to try to create growth and jobs in europe. the commission president says falling was due to a lack of confidence on the part of private investors, so to combat that, the eu is putting up 21 billion euros of seed money and hopes that will attract 15 times more investment from the private sector to total about 315 billion euros. critics say that seed money is not

the holocaust tragically changed all that. jews were either murdered by the nazis or fled abroad. but over the last few years, jewish life has been returning to berlin. the german capital now has europe's fastest-growing jewish community, and young jewish berliners are even doing their bit to promote peace back in israel. >> dancing to traditional jewish music in a nightclub does not sound very kosher. but israeli dj avov metter -- aviv netter likes playing around with jewish clichÉs that his so-called meschugge nights. netter has become a popular fixture in berlin's nightclubs. aviv never dreamed he'd become a spokesman for jewish culture in berlin. his choice to move to the german capital did not go over well with his family in tel aviv. like many jews of his generation, aviv prefers to look forward rather than back. >> regarding the horrors that came out from the city, like regarding to the war that started here, and the racism that raced here in berlin. so i think that because of that, people had to sit and think about what happened. and it's a great ground to start a new thin

a jewish star number that looks a lot like the patch that nazis forced jews to wear during the holocaust, and i vote for vodka line targeted for teens and young adults. experts call this shock advertising or outrage marketing where a company gets headlines in major publications going viral and increasing their social media. in urban outfitters' case, this seemed to work. everyone from "new york times," "usa today," "time" magazine and nbc news covered the kent state shirt controversy and they got thousands of new twitter followers in the process. >> the shock advertising campaigns, if they're done with the right approach, and the right objectives in mind, brands can see impact a lot awareness and hopefully for their sake, a positive impact on sales. >> now, while urban outfitters hasn't ever admitted to engaging in shock advertising, the facts suggest otherwise. in the past ten years we uncovered more than 20 examples of the company marketing an item, sparking outrage, then apologizing, pulling it off of store shelves. that strategy has apparently hit a snag, though, as wall street inves

the good people of northeast philadelphia were given a living history lesson today. 83-year-old holocausturvivor charles middleberg shared his story. middleberg was 9-year-old in paris what nazis invaded. his parents were sent to a concentration camp where the mother died. the brother and father left and pretexted to be catholic. after the war he was reunited with his father and later moved to the u.s. >> still to come on "action news," fearly 200 cruise passengers come down with highly con table us virus and what's bn being done to stop the spread of the stomach bug. >> an ebola infected dr. treated in the u.s. >> plus jeff skversky has eagles update coming up in sports when >> plus jeff skversky has eagles update coming up in sports when "action news" comes right hard it can be...how ...to breathe with copd? it can feel like this. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled... ...copd maintenance treatment... ...that helps open my airways for a full 24 hours. you know, spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation p

what happened and from that eventually to save jewish lives that would otherwise perish in another holocaust. this beloved feeling he had for his father really was the engine that drove him to the personal part of it and then of course, you know, his whole character was based on what have to be able to build this museum. we have to have a place where new yorkers can go, children can go and see what has happened and can never happen again. >> listen it, you've been wonderful. very generates here. what question have we not ask you that we should have asked you? >> i don't know. you've been pretty thorough. even an investigative reporter. >> well, the book is streamed to. the author is lucinda franks. it has been wonderful being with you they can. >> thank you so much. you are amazing. [applause] and thank you, all of you for coming. >> next on book tv, military forest history and someone talks about the first fund in 1942 none of the maritime unit. this program from the memorial in washington d.c. is just over half an

i think -- i even don't think that the people who were killed in the holocaust were all good people.hey were just victims, not good and not bad. victims. and the palestinians at this moment are victims. they're not better than me. they're just victims. and i don't want them to be victims. but why compare it? >> i don't compare it. my problem with it is i think if you've gone as a generation through such suffering why you don't sympathize with the new victims. >> i do. >> not you personally, but i'm just saying this is to me very troubling. because, you know, you meet people all the time that tell you, offense, my grandfather died mere, my aunt died there. and i'm like, are you blind? do you see when they build the the wall, the germans also built a wall and create a ghetto. >> you know, the son knows it hurts. but most of the children have been hiten by their parents, they hit their children. most of the men that have seen their fathers hitting their wives, then hit their wives as well. they have been victims, and then they are the ones that make someone else victims. so you don't kn

and i think if the holocaust taught us anything it is we cannot be indifferent to these things because that's not the kind of people we are as americans. [applause] >> we wish twed opportunity to talk to a confederate or union soldier or world war i veteran about their experiences but they are all gone. there are still world war ii veterans left, about 1.1 million. about 700 die every day. if you get the opportunity, go talk to one. it could be any veteran from anywhere. it could be these gentlemen, a grandfather or grandmother. just do it. just talk to them. and let them tell you what it was like. but it's such an honor to have you here and thank you for your participation today and good luck to all of you. [applause] >> also at the conference for ilitary veterans two honor recipients. they talk about their reasons for joining the military. this is about 40 minutes. >> good morning. the medal of honor is awarded by the president of the united states in the name of the u.s. congress. the medal of honor was created in 1861 and several years later on march 25, 1863, the first edal of hon

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