The Elie Wiesel's speech "The Perils of Indifference" in 1999 in Washington tells his story, he refers to a Jewish boy who one day thought he would never be happy again, and the story of an old man who, 54 years after being freed from death, he devoted his whole life to trying to explain the dangers of indifference as one of the most important lessons that we should learn. <u>The speech begins with the memory of his childhood when he was freed from Buchenwald by American soldiers.</u>
Polk sent orders to the U.S. Navy in the Pacific to seize San Francisco Bay and other California ports in the event of war with Mexico in 1845 as part of his California strategy.
