A hard time again and ill be bringing your comments directly to the guests today so what is the overprescription of antibiotics the lack of access to the right drugs or even. Actually doing to your. Colleagues. In the. World it is the into the room. Life before antibiotics was grim people die because of some of the most basic illnesses and childhood mortality numbers were sky high but that changed in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight with arguably one of the most important developments in modern medicine when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin he knew he was saving millions of lives from infections that just a few years earlier would have been fatal he predicted that organisms would become penicillin resistance and little more than a decade later researchers found that bacteria had already developed resistance to the drug now almost a century later antibiotic resistant infections kill more than twenty thousand people a year in just the u. S. And u. K. And more than seven hund
Petersburg, virginia, for the historical park civil war symposium. Next, chief historian at fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National historical park will speak. All right, lets call it back to order. Thank you. Welcome back from lunch. We wanted to mention that today is the 100th anniversary to the day that the first u. S. Troops went in france. [applause] i am happy to introduce our next speaker. He is a public historian and author currently serving as the chief historian and chief of interpretation at Fredericksburg National military park. Parts worked for the four years. As well as probably the definitive book on manassas. Lets welcome him. [applause] john i have to start with this. This is not a gratuitous phrasing of my team that i have loved since i was 11 years old. You may remember they one the stanley cup in the spring. I offer this is context for some of what you have heard this week. Does anybody recall who was defeated in the final . Do you remember . Is in the state of ten
Tain massacre at least one hundred twenty eight People Killed by ice ill as they were forced out of the syrian town. The children dying of hunger as Eastern Ghouta indias five years under siege. Low on Maryam Namazie are watching aljazeera live from london also coming up financial help from need to National Community for short of its target as over a million range refugees remain in need of life saving a. U. S. Secretary of state makes a surprise visit to afghanistan to meet the countrys president. And loving arms artist promote peace battle against gun crime in the united states. I still has been accused of carrying out a massacre in the syrian town of o r e a ten witnesses say the group conducted a Revenge Campaign killing at least one hundred twenty eight people before the towns capture by Government Forces the syrian observatory for human rights says the killings in central homs took place over a three week period i still accuse the civilians of collaborating with the Syrian Regime
Tip our caps to the men and women of the United States armed forces now a special edition of the Halftime Report with scott wapner live from the intrepid sea, air and space museum. [ cheers and applause hello and welcome. It is great to have you with us today. We are so honored to be here on the intrepid with an allveteran lineup of special guests a very special thank you as well to our live studio audience today for braving the cold to mark this special occasion with us several of our traders are with us today were going to get to them in just a few minutes but with me here onset inside this giant ship to kick things off today our very own joe terranova, army veteran, wall street grad, vinny viola is here, stephanie link as well along with navy veteran jim laventhal. We salute you and your service to this country. Vinny, certainly an honor and privilege to welcome you to the show as well. Its my distinct honor and my distinct pleasure to be here. Will you tell me first and foremost wh
Brian how did you approach this differently . Mark this is the first time a journalist like me would have access to get to meet participants so i was able to tell the story through both the american soldiers and marines to five and also the vietnam ease viet cong, the North Vietnamese army. I think as time is gone by there was a lot of documentation in the archives than hanoi as well as here in bethesda, maryland, at the national archive. There are also the records of the Johnson Administration at the lbj library. All of William Westmorelands papers are there. The National Security staff papers. So 50 years is kind of a good time i think to go back. The record is established. The participants are still alive. Brian in the early part of the book you say the battle would be the bloodiest of the war and a turning point not just in that conflict led in american history. Why . Mark well up until the tet offensive, which this is part of, general westmoreland had argued that this war was winn