Heros with, our veterans of world war ii. And we thank them for joining us this morning. My name is mike hydeck. Im honored to be here with friends of the world war ii memorial. And the foundation. Im the morning anchor at wusa channel 9 here in washington, d. C. And the goal of this discussion is to hopefully share some of their most personal stories from our greatest generation. The thought being their emotional firstperson accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons, hopefully, and had a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their come patriots have gone through to make it here today. We know that the gentlemen sitting here in front of us and the is other events we do honoring world war ii veterans, we have a short time to connect with them and understand they made it through one of the most horrific experiences in the world history. Its amazing that theyre sitt
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Parents. And judgment day for the ugandan warlord dominique. Closing statements in his trial that the i. C. C. Began today. Under welcome to his African Company today marks one. Airlines flight 3 o 2 crashed killing all 157 people on board the plane was heading to nairobi from ideas about when it plunged into the ground just 6 minutes. Investigations have revealed a problem with the boeing 737 max. Triggered an Automated System which repeatedly push the nose of the plane down the pilots tried to override the system but couldnt some families off the victims want boeing to compensate them for the loss of their loved ones steve news correspondent. Made one of those families in kenya. Its a year later but this family still mourning Abdullah Mohammed was in his way back home he was in the ill fated utopian anands flight that crashed shortly after takeoff in addis ababa this is the last 40 he sent his family and grown up she is he was very happy when he took this picture but now he is no lon
The 40th chief of the army general james mccarthonville. The secretary and chief and i will have a chat about the defense strategy, the armys modernization priorities, the president s budget request that just came out, as well as the emerging joint war fighting concept and well save about 15 minutes at the end to take questions from the audience here. First i want to throw it over to the secretary and the chief to give a couple opening remarks. Thank you, susan. Its the closest i will get to davos, switzerland. Great opportunity to be here. Thank you. As we discussed in the green room, these are wonderful opportunities for us to try to talk about how were trying to transform the army. Were in year three of a very aggressive effort of transforming the army in not only how we train the force, how we modernize and ultimately help our people reach their maximum potential. As i emphasized the third year of a massive restructuring like weve not seen in over 40 years in the army with creating