moment in american history, but for many people in 1860, 1861, this conflict began more when robert anderson and his men crossed charleston harbor and raised their flags above fort sumter, the south carolina newspaper headlines scream out by this act, major anderson has inaugurated and has inaugurated a civil war in our country and so that's write start the book, this sort of night escape. we're right there at the fort as the boats are slipping away from the beach and crossing over and major anderson has the american flag tucked under his arm that he will raise on the new fort. >> thank you. and it's just a -- one example of adam's techniques. he takes a person who we don't know much about, who was not a conscious hero in this struggle but committed some quite extraordinary acts. >> yeah. he was -- >> that also play into motion. >> he was very ambivalent and i like that about him. he was seen in the army as being this sort of gray bureaucrat. he was literally this sort of very gray-looking man, very serious and sort of dour and he was mostly known in the army for having translanded certain f

almost five years in the pentagon robert gates has retired leaving his successor with three wars and an ever expanding military budget retired u.s. army general steven anderson believes the new person in charge couldn't do any worse managing finances i don't think we're going to see any major changes in pentagon policies i'm hoping though that they will do something about the tremendous energy expenditure is that the united states army is expanding in iraq and afghanistan we have a tremendously inefficient base over there and we need to do something about it i'm hoping that it will bring about some of the money should be using united states to to work to best programs i mean we're essentially paying for the elements of our nation in order to win this war record in afghanistan from what my point is we can be expending energy there but for the short and we are if you understand the relationship between the and the efficiency and military effectiveness then you can see we can win the war and we can actually actually save a lot of money and i'm hoping that secretary panetta will do something about that my point is that there is a very simple easy pragmatic appro

roberts. kathy asadda. all of the volunteers. michael freed man from sf govtv. our city library. our sponors. kecker and argu edez. i also want to give a special thanks from anderson and anderson counseling. if you have ever seen the movie anner management, george was the consultant on that movie. he is an expert in conflict mediation. i want to thank george as well. i am so very honored to introduce our key-note speaker this morning. doctor francisco revelez. and mta director annette ford all were people who were self made, are self made. doctor revelez was born in el paso. he labeled as a migrant worker. he also served as a division one principle with credentials in biology and chemistry. how did he get from biology and chemistry? today he is a senior faculty member at california university and he has dedicated his entire career to get out of survivor mode to empowerment mode. he believes that when young people are made to feel successful, they are better able to take a stand and feel empowered. he has expressed that in so many ways. he is a researcher. each mind is a world with carlos santana and edward james almost. he is a research for center of life research