He had maintained a friendship with Jan across three decades and wrote an unauthorized biography of her life.

And then serving in Europe and the Middle East with some of the soldiers.

And I suppose that was the first indication of this.

These were adults that she had openly spoken to about her sexuality.

It may have given her a type of freedom, you know, to some extent to tell others.

She was a soldier living away from home for the first time as an adult and traveling by troop train across parts of Europe and ship.

I mean, there was obviously a sense of freedom to that as well.

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I'm Paul Clements.

I'm a director of operations at the Environment Agency.

Well, I was invited by KPMG, who we've been working with for a couple of years now redesigning our operating model for how the Environment Agency conducts its really important public safety services for England in terms of responding to environmental incidents like flooding and drought.

I loved it.

It was a real reminder for me, and I hope for my colleagues here across government, about why we're here and why we're doing these leadership roles, really reminding me about how the customer and the citizen should be at the heart of what we're doing.

And for some parts of that, it was quite a moving experience as well, particularly when I'm thinking about vulnerable users of the services that we deliver.

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I know what it would take to clear the land.

First you gotta knock down the trees, then bust up the stumps, and then you prep the stuff for, to be able to grow tobacco or whatever they were trying to go- grow.

Um, difficult labor, but I'm, I'm very sure they had to notice the native groups that were there, and, and, and, and, you know, we talked about treaties, right? So some of them might have been friendly toward the colonists, but they would have noticed the others that were angry at the colonists and thinking, "Hmm, maybe I can join with them." Um, but I, I, I feel that as best as we can, it's critical to talk about them during this point in the history, because I, I...

In, in Dr. Levitt's book on, um, Black Nashville, he talks about them making up maybe 20, 25% of the population by the turn of the century.

Um, so imagine being in a place where one out of the four people were, were Black, right? Can we accurately talk about that place by completely ignoring that 25% of the population? I, I, I don't think so.

I, I, um, I oftentimes tell this story.

Yeah.