will be learning more about in his lecture today. a graduate of the university of minnesota. he has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald and has covered some of the major stories of the last three decades. he is an active member of the western front association and currently lives in minnesota where he is working on his facebook of world war i nonfiction. please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james: i m going to talk about the polar bears. start off with a story of a guy who was a lieutenant, commander of the fourth platoon, company a, 330 night infantry regiment. 1919,rning of january 19, he and his men were stationed 250 miles south of archangel guarding an american allied outpost in the conflict which i will be explaining. he was woken up that morning at 6:00 a.m. by a shell. got out of bed, joined his men. there were only 45 men. manning the lines. meanwhile, these ghostly forms were heading for them. hundreds of ghostly
museum and memorial symposium. good morning. am not and it is my pleasure to welcome you, thank you for coming out to what i think is going to be an extraordinary couple of days as we came together and learning at this of speaking together and learning at this symposium. we are delighted to work with so many partners to create another exceptional opportunity for us. i hope it will take the time to spend time in the galleries. the special exhibition piece with 19 from 1919 fits with this piece. preparing for the opening of a new exhibition, the vietnam war, 1945-1975. that opens next weekend, so this is a teaser. we invite those of you who are able to come back to memorial day weekend of year to come back and take in an exceptional exhibition that also provides the link sent helps people understand the enduring impact of the war and world war i. and how it contributed to the vietnam war. there iskes us is that a continuum and growing interest in world war i and its endur
special member of my own team. it s know exaggeration at all to say that for the past four years, hazen marshall has stood squarely in the center of every consequential decision and piece of legislation that congress has taken up. just wrap your mind around the job. the policy director in the senate majority leader s office. every day that hazen is driven here to the capitol and parked his big pickup truck amid all the hybrids and hatchbacks, he s come ready to work. as a visionary strategist, a lead negotiator, a graceful manager, a constant resource to key players on both sides of the aisle, basically something like an air traffic controller for the united states senate. with a job like that it s no wonder that when my chief and of staff and i set tout to lure hasten back to the? the in 2014, it didn t start out as an easy sell. for one thing he d already served 18 years of hard time here. hazen started out as an inten for his home state senator, don nickles. the way i hear
fault lines travels to cleveland, ohio - to look at what is causing these deaths, and to try to find out why the united states has the worst rate of infant mortality in the industrialized world. it s monday morning in cleveland s metrohealth hospital. a newborn baby boy has just been rushed into neonatal intensive care unit known as the nicu . weighing just over 2 pounds, he s 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. he s really retracting. you see his blood pressure? very low. they re right now trying to get urgent care to the baby that s just been born here, literally within the last couple of hours. and right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. this is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they haven t changed one aspect of this crisis. almost all of the babies in this ward are bl
fault lines travels to cleveland, ohio - to look at what is causing these deaths, and to try to find out why the united states has the worst rate of infant mortality in the industrialized world. it s monday morning in cleveland s metrohealth hospital. a newborn baby boy has just been rushed into neonatal intensive care unit known as the nicu . weighing just over 2 pounds, he s 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. he s really retracting. you see his blood pressure? very low. they re right now trying to get urgent care to the baby that s just been born here, literally within the last couple of hours. and right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. this is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they haven t changed one aspect of this crisis. almost all of the babies in this ward are bl