face the adversities that i face and i feel like this is a major adversity that we face and it is not going to define me and continue me to go on to what i plan to do. desiree veney, thank you for joining us. thank you, and i appreciate this opportunity, and i wanted to say to the justices and the lawmakers and things like that, although this is not something that everyone is agreeing on, this is very important for everyone to understand how largely this has impacted not only me, not only all of the other americans and also specifically hbcu graduates and just african-american students in general. like i said the racial wealth gap is pretty big, so given this opportunity, we are able to build generational wealth and create a legacy an pd push forward. and cancel the student debt,
hamlin. we got our boy. you know what i m saying? that s all that matters. we got our boy. the excitement was beautiful. it was amazing. it has given us so much energy, so much, you know, bright, high spirits, whatever you want to call it, it s given it to us. to see that boy s face, to see him smile, see him go like this in the camera. it was it was it was everything. so, and then to hear him talk to us, it was literally everything. and that s what we needed. literally that s all we needed. reporter: awesome surprise from coach sean mcdermott, who he has been such a pillar of strength, fred, helping his team and this city through so many adversities in buffalo. here he is reflecting on the impact of seeing damar and the rest of those players having to go through all of this. what if i learned? i think more reminded how r
was an amazing teacher. really a remark body of work, christiane. thank you so much for your perspective. christiane amanpour. she broke barriers and paved the way for so many of us. she truly was a trailblazer for us in so many ways. i have a book in my office, women in the news written in the 70s and it talks about the challenges and adversities she faced as one of the few women only women in evening news. she s an inspiration. she took us from an age where women were unique to news and not dominating. it is. we ll be right back.
many of us, but he also happened to be my wife s father, my father-in-law, thomas hugh brown, who died tuesday at the age of 75. born in chicago, these photos of him, a seemingly happy kid notwithstanding, tom s early life was difficult. he eventually ended up on his own in his teens. he joined the air force during that time, and he served in vietnam from october 1968 until october 1969. that was a tough period for that war that included the tet offensive. tom last served with the 12th security police department. he didn t talk much about his time in vietnam. he went from managing a supermarket to owning a dollar store in kansas. mott most notably, despite his adversities growing
tom last served with the 12th security police department. he didn t talk much about his time in vietnam. he went from managing a supermarket to owning a dollar store in kansas. despite his adversities growing up, tom became an incredible success, as a husband, and as a father. he and his wife, linda, raised my wife jennifer, and her brother, bob, with joyous adoration, and they steered their kids to become their best selves. tom became a loving grandfather to my son. in his later years, he focused on his grand kids and fishing. he loved the art of making pens after the movie based on my book about afghanistan came out in 2020, he made special pins commemorating that battle, containing dirt from the real