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On
Tuesday, November 11, 2008, we had a
special guest and a timely
topic for our Veterans Day observance. Dr. Alan L. Gropman –
retired Air Force Colonel and author of the book, The Air
Force Integrates 1945-1964 – spoke on the desegregation
of the Armed Forces.
Dr.
Gropman has a distinguished academic and military
background. Among other awards, he earned the Defense
Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished
Flying Cross, Air Medal with Five Oak Leaf Clusters, and
Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm. He flew more than 670
missions in Vietnam.
In
1986, Dr. Gropman retired from the Air Force after 27 years
of commissioned service. He serves as a distinguished
professor of national security policy at the Industrial
College of the Armed Forces (a graduate-degree-granting
college for senior military and civilian officials), and
from 1996 to 2002 he was chairman of the Grand Strategy and
Mobilization Department at the college. He also serves as an
adjunct professor of security studies at Georgetown
University.
Pictures of
the November 2008 Lincoln Institute
Breakfast Forum Featuring
Dr. Alan L. Gropman
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Speaker: Alan L. Gropman, Ph.D.
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Veterans join Jay in presenting certificate of appreciation to Alan Gropman: L-R William Caison, Lee Edwards, Gropman, Norman Bailey, Philip Baten
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Lee Edwards, The Heritage Foundation and chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation; Roger R. Ream, president of The Fund for American Studies and Jay Parker |
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