craig: good morning. my name is craig horn. this is my 20th year as well with the annual american veterans conference. we are going to begin an adventure as we look back so that we can see further ahead. it has often been said that ignorance of the past can create irresponsibility in the present and recklessness in the future. this morning we are going to begin with the battle of midway. it is my pleasure to introduce richard frank, a historian of the second world war. he was a consultant for the hbo world war ii special on the pacific and in that he wrote, "the pacific war will inspire a long overdue reawakening of the strategic importance, sheer scale, and unsurpassed savagery of the wars unleashed by japan. the battle of midway was the turning of the tide." please welcome mr. richard b. frank. [applause] richard: thank you for those kind remarks. we are here on the 75th anniversary of the battle of midway. it is on the perennial list of the most important battles of world war ii, it is often cited as the single most importan

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>> so, craig, actually if i turn here you're going to see two bradley fighting vehicles. and these are just some of the military might that's going to be on display tomorrow evening. this is, of course, being transported on such a large flatbed because of how heavy they are. the abrams tanks which are other tanks parked nearby and going to be on the mall weigh as much as 60 tons. you can imagine that's something that could damage d.c. streets and some of the president's critics have expressed concern about that. but that's what the president wants on display. he wants to do the salute to america and feature all of these different military vehicles after being inspired two years ago at the bastille day celebrations in paris where he saw the parade with president emmanuel macron and said i would very much like to do this. he then thought it was going to be taking place on veterans day, but that got canceled, you may remember, and moved to the fourth of july because of how expensive it is. "the washington post" is reporting that it's going to be at least 2.5 million in entra

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