we'll start with rogers who's calling from great neck, new york roger. good morning. good morning. how are you feeling? go ahead roger. yeah. hi. um, i have a question very interesting question. in 1898 the us with teddy roosevelt in the 17th are volunteer of new york. got rid of the spaniards and mckinley sent the the you know, the rough riders in and everybody into cuba to get rid of the spaniards. why didn't why didn't eisenhower's kennedy? why didn't they send the us military in? i was reading a thing about the bay of pigs on usa today in las vegas, nevada and most generals at the time to cia was not supposed to go in and do military operations the us military the dod was supposed to go into cuba. get rid of castro. yes. both eisenhower and kennedy were unwilling to commit at least openly us military forces to the overthrow of the castro regime one of the great concerns was to maintain good relations with the rest of latin america latin america. latin american people saw the united states as overbearing they didn't like them on road doctrine. they didn't like to be in america's

host: go ahead, roger. caller: i have an interesting question. in 1898, the u.s. with teddy roosevelt got rid of the spaniards and mckinley sent the rough riders in and everybody into cuba to get rid of the spaniards. why didn't eisenhower, why didn't kennedy, why didn't they send the u.s. military in. i was reading a thing about the bay of pigs on "usa today" and most generals at a time, the cia was not supposed to go in and do military operations. the u.s. military, the dod, was supposed to go into cuba to get rid of castro. nicholas: yes. both eisenhower and kennedy were unwilling to commit, at least openly, u.s. military forces to the overthrow of the castro regime. one of the great concerns was to maintain good relations with the rest of latin america. latin america, latin american people, saw that united states as overbearing, they did not like them on the munroe doctrine. they did not like to be in america to backyard. for good foreign policy reasons, it was ruled out that we would have the u.s. military openly go against the castro regime. now, kennedy con

roger, good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> great, roger. >> just fine. >> yeah, i. i have a question, an interesting question. in 1898, the u.s. with teddy roosevelt -- 17th volunteer in new york got rid of the spaniards and mckinley sent the rough riders and and everybody into cuba to get rid of the spaniards. why didn't eisenhower -- why didn't kennedy -- why didn't dickson, the u.s. military -- i was reading this thing about the bay of pigs on usa today in las vegas, nevada. most generals at the time -- the cia was not supposed to go in and do military operations. the u.s. military, was supposed to go into cuba to get rid of castro. >> yes. both eisenhower and kennedy were unwilling to commit, at least openly. u.s. military forces to the overthrow of the castro regime. one of the great concerns was to maintain good relations with the rest of latin america. latin america, latin american people saw the united states as overbearing. they did not like the maduro doctrine. they did not like to be in america's backyard. so good foreign policy reasons, it was ruled out

was roger atkinson pryor and he was a representative in the house of representatives? and he represented, virginia. um and he was the person in congress who came up with the phrase that we know today, which is irreconcilable conflict that that it's irreconcilable conflict that congress has with respect to the issue of slavery will never resolve it. and so he it when when lincoln was elected president, they actually had he threatened to kill lincoln and they they had the the newspapers wrote poems about him, you know. killing lincoln with the sword because he had such a bad reputation as being a person with a temper and actually threatening people with duels so they kind of made fun of them but after the election he traveled down to south carolina and in south carolina, he gave this speech that was a pivotal speech according to the new york times. it it was a speech that asked, you know, why did that that ask would south carolina please succeed from the nation because virginia is very old and she's very slow. but if you secede we will succeed as well that word of that g

donna: but it is because, roger circe -- roger sercey, the professor of that class, is a vietnam vet. interviewer: did you take away from vietnam more that was positive and useful than you invested in blood sweat and tears? donna: yes, i did. both al and i would say the same thing. ed was a sacrifice -- it was a sacrifice and it was hard, but both al and i and our children, our whole family was changed by our experience in vietnam. and i think we became better people, i think we are better because of it. interviewer: in the end, what did that war mean to you and your generation? donna: you know, we were idealistic. to begin with, we were raised by the greatest generation, and we were raised with a love of god and love of country and love of family. so when our country asked us to fight for people's freedom, it was just a natural thing for us to do as the children of the greatest generation. so we were very idealistic, and we carried those ideals with us to vietnam. and in some cases they were shattered, but i believe that our generation showed that we were willing to sacrifice for som

so stockdale died early in 1882, -- and bobby roger were two months short of 89. marino was 92. that's how long the lived. which proves that suffering will kill you. if you make you a better person. no one wants to be a better person. suffering won't kill you. these guys lived very fruitful lives. general boyd is maybe -- now, in a fly by he did the missing man pull up by his t34 t34 over the monument, the air base space for a big celebration there. you can imagine being 80 and find your t34 around the country and riding this motorcycle. so our guys have done well. i think that one of the reasons that we did, well when we had great training. two we had great leadership. the rumor a little bit of a select group because they were mostly aircrews and a little bit older. i was the youngest guy in the camp and i got there when i was 20, three just turned 24 rather. the average age was 30 at capture so we were pretty mature group. if we had all been 18 years old we would have stood a chance because you don't have the maturity and resilience. a 18-year-old doesn't as a 30-year-old. tha

roy rogers lived just around the corner from where i lived, and i went by his house every morning to go to work. it was a neat place. high desert, doesn't rain much, a little bit cool in the wintertime, the wind blows a lot. but we were 90 miles from los angeles, maybe an hour and a half, and about two and a half hours over las vegas. i never went to las vegas, but we were right on the main highway that goes on the interstate from los angeles to las vegas. the flying was great. we did everything they did in top gun, plus we did the air to ground, the bombing and all that. so it was a lot of fun. we played some golf along the way, and one of my buddies that i met in our survival school and then became close friends with was a guy named lance slyjohn. we were single together, we met a lot of nice young ladies around and played a lot of golf. we went off to war together, lance did not come back. he's the only air force academy graduate still to be awarded the congressional medal of honor. he was shot down two days after me. he made it 46 days in laos where he was shot down, badly, badly