2021 Virtual Lectures

Jan 2021 - Virtual History Lecture

Insights into the Future of the US Navy Museum

Thursday, 28 January 2021


K. Denise Rucker Krepp

Naval History and Heritage Command 

 

Ms. Krepp began her career as an active duty Coast Guard officer. After September 11, 2001, Ms. Krepp helped create the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security. She served as Senior Counsel on the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee. During the first Obama Administration, Ms. Krepp served as the Maritime Administration Chief Counsel and Special Counsel to the U.S. Department of Transportation General Counsel.

 

Ms. Krepp is also an elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Washington, DC.

April 2021 - Virtual History Lecture

"Known But to God:  America's 20th Century Wars and the Search for the Missing"  


Thursday, 29 April 2021

Kenneth Breaux, CDR (Ret), USN

Founder & President, MIA Recovery Network, 501.c(3)


The basis for the lecture will be the outline of a book currently being edited for publication entitled “Known  But to God; America’s 20th Century Wars and the Search for the Missing”. 

It will trace the history of accounting for and honoring the dead from World War I through WWII, Korea, the Cold War and Vietnam. Topics will include the role of the Quartermaster Corps in all Wars, and the foundation of the American Battle Monuments Commission. A central theme will be the continuing efforts to recover and identify the more than 75,000 still missing from World War II, and the development of the current actions of the Defense Missing Personnel Accounting Agency and the role of Ken Breaux’s organization, the MIA Recovery Network, a non-profit organization which acts as an advocacy group for families of the missing and researchers pursuing cases of missing in action soldiers.

Kenneth Breaux. CDR, USN (RET)  first became acquainted with the issue of Missing in Action military members during the Vietnam War, when friends and colleagues were lost and declared missing. He was active in the recovery of the remains of Lt William M. Lewis Jr. USAAF, MIA since 11 September 1944. He is the author of “Courtesies of the Heart”, the story of the 55th Fighter Group mission to Ruhland, Germany and its aftermath and the subsequent narrative of the Lewis recovery, and the author of  “Transforming-How Managers Become Leaders”.