Set this up . Let them decide or let you decide. Well let the audience decide. Listen closely now. The decision is which man was the indispensable man of the Manhattan Project . Take it away. I guess ill start. Thats part of the title of my book actually. Ill just speak about two aspects of general groves. As you may or may not know, he grew up in the army. His father was an army chaplain. He was determined to go to west point and he graduated fourth in his class. At the time the automatic choice of anyone who was at the head of their classes at west point joined the corps of engineers. He graduated on november 1st 1918. War was over but 11 days later november 11th 1918, and hes now an engineer in a Peacetime Army and very slow to move through the ranks. And in the run up to world war ii after he served in various places around the United States, been getting bigger and bigger projects and getting good efficiency reports he is part of the Construction Division of the army corps of engi
Host of a weekly segment spotlighting military heroes. Civilian, he is also an instructor at the u. S. Army war college, where he teaches kernels, for the most part colonels, for the most part. I also found out before the program that he and his wife have been very active in helping wounded warriors. Ed a charity that helps them in a variety what variety of ways. They provide al qaeda different services. He told me one particular they provide all kinds of different services. I commend you for all that you do to our military and i welcome you to the panel. [applause] thank you. As an instructor at the were college, i deal with senior command, so in my class i only have Lieutenant Colonels and above. Of young faces, it inspires me. Also, i interview folks from all different wars. I know that you guys have to read a ton of stuff, and some of it does not translate for you. You dont smell it or hear it, none of it is real. It is words and stories. But when you hear people in front of you an
Author heather ann thompson. Awe. But first, but first, breaking news from Donald Trumps fat little twitter fingers. President trump just tweeted on a number of subjects including chicago murder outbreak fsm comi chicago disunt fix the horrible carnage, 228 shooting ins 2017, up 24 first from 2016 i will send in the feds. What exactly could that mean, bringing in the feds . Well, weve asked that question of white house officials several of them and there is no answer on what exactly he means. Trevor yeah. Of course there is no answer on what exactly he means. Because he doesnt know what he means. laughter we done even know if he means the feds. I mean like maybe he wants to send in Roger Federer and kevin federline. We dont know. Anythings possible with trump. Now dont get me wrong. That statistics about homicides in chicago is troubling. And no one can deny the issue needs to be addressed. But i guarantee that you donald j. Trump just thinks send in the questioneds sounds feds sounds
Author heather ann thompson. Awe. But first, but first, breaking news from Donald Trumps fat little twitter fingers. President trump just tweeted on a number of subjects including chicago murder outbreak fsm comi chicago disunt fix the horrible carnage, 228 shooting ins 2017, up 24 first from 2016 i will send in the feds. What exactly could that mean, bringing in the feds . Well, weve asked that question of white house officials several of them and there is no answer on what exactly he means. Trevor yeah. Of course there is no answer on what exactly he means. Because he doesnt know what he means. laughter we done even know if he means the feds. I mean like maybe he wants to send in Roger Federer and kevin federline. We dont know. Anythings possible with trump. Now dont get me wrong. That statistics about homicides in chicago is troubling. And no one can deny the issue needs to be addressed. But i guarantee that you donald j. Trump just thinks send in the questioneds sounds feds sounds
When and if they can open up evacuation areas and whether it will be safe for people to go back into their homes, even for a brief moment to grab medications and other valuables. An update on the numbers, 36,000 people are impacted. 3300 people stayed overnight at two emergency shelters. Mandatory evacuation orders do remain in effect of three years of san jose. The william corridor where im reporting, which includes brooklyn terrace. A second area is oak hill road and this area where massive rescues were done by boat yesterday. No one expected rock springs to flood the way it did yesterday, and quickly. Staff is trying to pinpoint what failed to cause the water to inundate that neighborhood. We asked the mayor a pointed question. Did the city do everything it could to warn people to evacuate ahead of the catastrophe they faced . Was the holiday yesterday a factor . The first time that a resident is aware that they need to get out of a home is when they see a firefighter in a boat. The