I interviewed women civilian world and rape is a very very traumatizing thing to have happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma. I cannot remember how many times a young female marine that had been raped or sexually assaulted told me that she looked at these guys as your brother or the suspect as your brother its a kin to what happens in a family with incest. Because you know in the military when were functioning at our best a cohesive unit with brothers and sisters of the band of brothers and sisters i mean we are family when that ball and of trust is violated. The wound penetrates to the very most inner part of ones soul one psyche. I have this folder that i keep i have all my boot camp letters and if my mom and my sister and. People and. Just going through some of this stuff and im like whats this you know and i open it up im like oh my god. My suicide letter. Bomb im sorry for the greece that you must feel. J
Congress, the play was directed by or sun wells. On the Opening Night in 1936, 10,000 people crowded the streets of harlem in preferred to score a ticket. We were a discouraged people. Because we were the first to lose our jobs when the old man depression came along. The struggle while depression fear and failure stop the nation. A tenth of the population of the United States went out of every four of us was in vain we sought for something to restore our confidence, our whole our courage. Without jobs we had no money. Without money if we could not purchase food for the hungry mouths at home. Our only hope late and charity. It youll wear people to the bread lines. We waited for some sign of better days. Then came the federal governments work program. One by one, it took us out of the bread land and gave us a new chance to take a normal place in the life of our community. It made a self supportive. It changed the haggard hopeless faces of the bread line into face is filled with hope and
Me it is my belief that the only thing that we have to fear is fear itself. By the time Franklin Roosevelt gives his march 1933 inaugural speech, almost a quarter of the nation is unemployed. More than 5,000 banks have failed and drought is persisting in key agricultural areas of the country. People must have faith. Coming up in the next hour, stories from the Great Depression as we take you to places like toledo and then in 1931 five of the six largest banks all failed at the same time which made it the largest banking failure of the Great Depression. To successful infrastructure of the times still impacting us today. And to one ending in tragedy. Well talk you to st. Paul with gangsters and the corrupt police force strike a bargain. Well explore the impact of new deal programs like the Conservation Corp as we go just outside of amarillo, texas. We wouldnt have a park here if it wasnt for the Conservation Corp. And well hear from artists who tell tales. We begin our cities tour featur
Nation. A 10th of the population of the united states. One out of every four of us was on relief. Looked for something to restore our confidence and hope. Without jobs we had no money and without money we could not purchase food for the hungry mouths at home. Our only hope laid in charity. As bread lines were built up people anxiously waited for a sign of better days. And then came the work program. One by one, it took us out of the bread line and gave us a new chance to take our place in the normal life of our community. It seems the haggard hopeless faces of the bread line to the faces filled with hope and happiness. We work again unskilled laborers, the forgotten men of past generations now worked steadily at decent wages. They are building and repairing schools, Public Holdings to meet the changing needs of our modern world. In one project in the nations capital, 1200 men are employed grading and constructing runways. In addition to the hundreds of unskilled laborers removed from t
Narrator only a few years ago, we were a discouraged people because we were forced to lose our jobs when old man depression came along. We struggled to regain our variance while depression, fear and failure took stock of the nation. A 10th of the population of the united states. One out of every four of us was on relief. In vain, we looked for something to restore our confidence and hope. And our courage. Without jobs we had no money and without money we could not purchase food for the hungry mouths at home. Our only hope laid in charity. The bread lines were built up as people anxiously waited for a sign of better days. Then came the federal governments work program. One by one, it took us out of the bread line and gave us a new chance to take our place in the normal life of our community. It made us selfsupport. It changed the haggard hopeless faces of the bread line to the faces filled with hope and happiness. For now we work again , narrator unskilled laborers, the forgotten men of