brian: you talk about orville and wilbur wright never marrying. their sister katherine got married when she was something like 52 or so. david: yes. brian what impact that have on : her relationship with orville? david: well, it is a very sad story. orville had when his family called " peculiar spells." he would get touchy and moody, and brood but they wouldn't last , terribly long. this was the worst of his peculiar spells by far, and he inflicted terrible pain on his sister, whom he adored. when she announced that she wants to get married to a man she had known, they both had known, for a long time, and she and the fellow served together on the board of directors of oberlin college. that she was going to get married he refused to talk to her. he felt that he had been betrayed. he was with the kansas city star. when he heard that she was dying, he wasn't very quick to go to her bedside, but he eventually did. but it is a sad and regrettable end to an otherwise wonderful relationship between brother and sister. brian: we have some more video from

he talks about the personal stories of wilbur and orville wright, the roles their family played as the brothers experienced failures and successes, and the time in which they lived as the race to achieve flight was at its peak. brian: i recently picked up the washington post and saw a review of your book, and she says the magical account of their early adventures, the wright brothers -- enhanced by correspondences written records, and his deep understanding of the country shows us two boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly. did you expect that from her? david: it is as if the pope blessed the book. to have her write that review meant more than i can say. brian: have you met her? david: i have met her but i don't know her. i did an interview with her mother. she was wonderful. delightful to talk to. very winsome as a person. her mother is the one i interviewed. what i liked about what you just read is she set a remarkable family. -- she said "a remarkable family. " the book is as much about the family. it is a family story, a family saga. brian: what was going on in the e

he talks about the personal stories of wilbur and orville wright, the roles their family played as the brothers experienced failures and successes, and the time in which they lived, as the race to achieve flight was at its peak. i recently picked up the washington post and saw a review

a man who won two silver stars in world war i, learned to fly from orville wright, you think he will tear up when he is yelled at? i don't think so. in the grand tradition of japanese commanders when they are about to lose, they committed suicide. the last words were take seven lives and repay your country. you would hear something similar at okinawa, one life for 10 of theirs. that night, july 6. it was the early morning of the seventh of july. 1300 japanese states the bonsai attack. they were firing 40 shows a minute or it that is almost a shell a second. -- they were firing 40 shells a minutes. later, that is where the accused the army of cowardice, saying they frozen their foxholes. it would be possible, but there were 4300 japanese k.i.a. in the area. you don't kill that many when you are frozen in your foxhole. thanks to attack the 106 came in and turned the tide. six americans killed and 512 wounded. it would be the last hurrah on japanese attacks. it is hard to talk about. i have seen the films and pictures and cover and it is horrific. the civilians had been convinced by the

they've lost money as a sector since orville and wilbur wright first flew but if you give me a chance to have a bigger seat or bigger overhead storage bin, that's an airline i want. i don't want food or if the flight attendant likes me. most flyers are that way, and airlines should be allowed to have the overhead bin space they want and to dictate their own plane. not a government mandate. i think that's way over the line. >> what do you think of this? >> well i travelled with cowboy boots, and it's going to be really hard to fit them into a smaller suitcase but, yes, this is going to benefit luggage manufacturers. it's going to benefit people who have stores. people will start shopping instead of packing their clothes. this is i think just crossing the line. we at some point need to be protected against just airlines being able to raise prices and decrease our luggage capacity. how am i supposed to survive -- >> i'm sorry about that. >> i mean airlines are businesses. they have not been making money for so long. isn't it okay for them to try to you know do whatever they need to do to

he was taught to fly by orville wright himself and he held the 13th pilot license issued in the united states. he won two silver stars in world war i. he was everything holland smith thought he was except without the temper. he was a very even-tempered, quiet man. i think that was one of the things that set holland smith off. people who are bullies they like , people who argue back. that is why smith did not slam corlett, corlett got right back in his face. if ralph smith had gotten in his face, he would have backed off. his fatal flaw was he wanted to gives commanders a chance. this was a national guard division. we will talk about them in more detail about the problems the 27th had. he was methodical and was not given to outbursts. sla marshall said his extreme consideration for all other mortals would keep him from being rated the great captain. he died in 1998. the age of 104, the largest surviving general from world war ii. there was also the 77th division, which would remain in hawaii. the third division would eventually attack guam. there were not part of saipan. these units wer

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