Liberty Gala 2025

LTG  (Ret.) H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years. He retired as a Lieutenant General in June 2018 after serving as the 25th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. He holds a PhD in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. McMaster is the host of Battlegrounds: Vital Perspectives on Today’s Challenges and is a regular on GoodFellows, both produced by the Hoover Institution. He is a Distinguished University Fellow at Arizona State University.

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LTC (Ret.) Robert P. Adelhelm was born  in New Jersey, the oldest of 3 brothers, all law enforcement officers in New Jersey and New York.  Bob attended and graduated from William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey with a Bachelor of Science Degree and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marines in 1973 where he went on to serve for 22 years on active duty.

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SPC (Ret.)Shoshana Johnson is a retired U.S. Army soldier and the first Black female prisoner of war in U.S. military history. She enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1998 and served in the 507th Maintenance Company, 5/52 Air Defense Artillery Battalion. 

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LTC ( Ret.) Robert E. Sarazen is a managing director in Private Wealth Management(PWM) where he co-leads a PWM advisory team advising privately held business owners, wealthy individuals, families and foundations. Rob was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1988 and served as an officer in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. He is a member of the PWM Client Experience Group, the Goldman Sachs Veterans Committee and has served on the PWM Advisors Council since 2008. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1997 as an associate and was named managing director in 2017.

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Major Serhii Volynskyi is a Ukrainian Marine Corps major and the former commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade. He gained international recognition during the 2022 siege of Mariupol, where he led his brigade in a breakout from the Illich steel plant and later joined forces with the Azov Regiment at the Azovstal steel plant.

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