[inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. And on this threeday weekend of booktv on after words, pulitzer prizewinning journalist mei fong talks about chinas recently discontinued onechild policy. Also this weekend, David Bernstein argues the Obama Administration has undermined the constitution. Courtney young takes a look at the politics of breastfeeding, and we visit the literary sites of hartford, connecticut. Representative john lewis recalls his part in the civil rights movement. University of wisconsin Professor William p. Jones remembers the march on washington, and douglas wilder, the first africanamerican to be elected as governor, talks about his life and political career. For a complete television schedule, visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours and this weekend even more hours of nonfiction books and authors television for serious readers. Of this years president ial ca
Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body based i should say Upper Body Strength based proxy tests that they evaluated the performance of 409 women and 379 female marines against and what they found from this combat proxy test was that about well not about, but 66 of the very good performers were men and 34 were women, and then the highest performing categories, it was 92 were men and 8 were women. So this initial Screening Test that they developed showed that there was certainly a percentage of women that fell into the good and the ve
Whites parents. I sat in the room, which had been ashleys in the spring of 2012 im sorry am a 2013. I asked them about their daughter. They started telling me about this mission they had done and the kind of person she was. What became very apparent was that it was not her death that had to find her, but her life. And that she was one of those rare people who never talk to you about what she could do. He simply let her actions speak for themselves and one of those people who was much happier doing her job and going home to her husband the doing her job and telling you about everything she just done. And in the corner of the room were reset i saw a piece of paper with all written in black letters you are my motivation. And i thought if somebody can have that left of the gravesite more than a year after the past then we should really know who that somebody was. As it turned out there was this whole team of women that had done this extraordinary thing. They had answered the call to serve
I once knew a man by the name of James. He was born and raised on a small farm in northern Richmond Co. James was born in 1918; the youngest of three brothers.