Still missing. 7 01. Welcome to mornings on 2. Its monday, may 30th, memorial day. I am gasia mikaelian. Good morning. I am dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic now. Steve is off, but we have rosemary today. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. We have a nice one coming our way. We are going to warm it up. This morning we are waking up with low clouds at the coastline as well as inside the bay. I dont want it to last very long for our bayside communities. Along the coast i think its going to stick most of the day. We will be mostly sunny elsewhere and temperatures are expected to soar above yesterdays highs. Here is a closer view where we have a little bit of that cloud cover from San Francisco across the bay bridge along Richmond San Rafael and our bridges over portions of the bay. San mateo, done done done dumbarton bring. Sonoma, napa, vallejo, through hercules and perhaps along the benicia stretch as well as martinez. Temperatures this morning not too bad. A little cool
If you like the book, please post a review on amazon. [inaudible] conversation [inaudible conversations] croons croons providing live coverage. Iraq war veteran phil klay is next on book tv. Heeho discusses his collection f short stories about soldiers who fought in iraq and afghanistan and the experiences they had while back in the u. S. Between deployments. This is 45 minutes. Thank you. There we go. Thanks so much for coming here. Good to be here. This is my first time in l. A. So be good to me. Its a thrill to be here with tony. So, the book is twelve short stories from different perspectives. And im going to start out with a just read the opening of the story about an artillery unit, called ten clicks south. Large base, and the fabs in iraq. Youre in a combat zone but theyre large, really secure, and theyre like little miniature cities. They have, like, workout facilities and a chow hall and theres some some marines who never left them who were referred to as fabits, and this stor
United states definition but by 1819 the entire hemisphere, specialism argentina all the way up to the present was in open rebellion. The wars of independence had broken out in peru and argentina, mexico, and spain was real week. They been toppled by the french government in 1808 and spain pretty much have to accept the United States to dictate the terms at that point. Two years later of course mexico falls and becomes an independent nation. So really the United States was strong and occupy that space and spain was weak and failed to do so. So when they sold it, they didnt have it drawn out, someone jeffersons diplomats in spain asked the french secretary of foreign affairs, foreign ministry, so what are the boundaries . And he allegedly said i dont know exactly, but i suspect youve made a noble bargain for yourself. And so spain and france had contested the boundaries of louisiana going back to 1682. So france said we are selling in louisiana, and the french understanding of that was
Department basically predicted it would not happen as general shinseki had a more robust presence and pushed aside aggressively and the consequences of that with the early policy decisions played out over the years. So certainly there is details with that at the policy level we want people to think about what it meant to be one of those marines or Us State Department guy to build the society up and what that was like and how that was affected by the past but on a daytoday basis. For use thinking of trading when you were deployed or were you taking notes when you were deployed . I took a lot of notes a was right thing but not about war mostly very, very bad short stories and ive learned Anthony Powell had quit writing during world war ii i felt like that excuse me for all the things i had written them were awful. But i did come back with notes and a lot of memories but the source material that i had with the nature of my job by which travel lot and its been time with units so that certa
The interviewer looked stricken. Her supervisor quickly looks down at her notes. Shame wild and my throat and eyes. My humiliation was absolute. Even the doctors were laughing at me. Welcome to the office of Veterans Affairs psycho boy. [applause] thank you thank you very much. Again, thank you so much for coming. I really honestly very, very much appreciated. We have some time for questions. Michael and james are going to circulate with the microphone. Any questions . I am happy to take them. About any part of the story, past, present, future. Boy, that first one is always the hardest, isnt it . Someone is going to ask that first question. Thank you. I say that before i hear the question. Been to your story is a very personal one, something that is much larger and yourself. So stepping back from your disempowered act of witnessing, at least you were witnessing, do you have a broader conclusion about how International Organizations can operate more effectively . I have a couple of thin