1963. Welcome back. Thank you. What are you in town for . For the funeral of a , art ryan. We interviewed him, fortunately. And are sorry to hear about his passing, but we are glad to see you in town. Tell us a little bit about your time with us, where did you grow . P wrecks i was born in 1939. I grew up in the mountains of tennessee and North Carolina come together. West of chattanooga. Or east. What did your parents do . My daddy was an engineer. Civil engineer. He built dams. My mother was a schoolteacher. Did you have any siblings . Brother, have an older two years older, and an older sister, three years older. I was and groups. An oops. Tell us what it was like growing up. Farm ind a seven acre the mountains. Very poor, very role. Nearby had more money than we did. I felt bad. Why dont we make more money . He said i would but your mother wont let me. When i was in high school i rode the school bus for 25 miles 20 day twice a day. Wow. Yeah it was pretty remote. , that mustve take
He was awarded three silver stars for his actions in vietnam. At westrview was held point center for oral history and is about 70 minutes. Good morning. The west point center for oral history, today is the 20th of june 2017. I am here with richard b cole. Class of 1963. What are you in town for . For a funeral of a classmate. Him, interviewed fortunately. That you areo see in town. Tommy about your childhood. I was born in 1939. And grew up in the mountains of north georgia. Right where georgia, tennessee, and carolina come together. Is that close to chattanooga . It is west of chattanooga. What do your parents do . They built dams. My mother was a schoolteacher. I have an older brother. Two years older than me. An older sister, three years older than me. Ops. S an o to me what it was like growing up. A little seven acre farm in the mountains. Rural, very poor, but a big bootlegging county. My best friend had a lot more money than we did. Thand they have more money we do, why dont you
To the physician payment reform i think lance for the optimism to my belief that they will be avoided change the way that there going to get in such a way that help to close some of those even as new people become eligible. And, of course, we will also be bring in more people who better coverage throughout the lifetime. I think we have reason to believe that can make a difference and helping us of the people who are becoming eligible for medicare which also has an impact. The ben keating Preventive Care their entire lives, not even getting access to the kind of care they need to prevent hospitalizations. That will make a difference. Weve also made huge strides in quality of medicare. And the past few years reduce the admissions rate by 10 , reduced hospital record conditions by i think 17 . All of those things make me optimistic that we were able to Work Together to deal with the next changes are we need to make to accommodate the bulk of the senior to be joining medicare. Talk for a f
Suspended animation since the end of the Second World War and so he was trying to say to them, you are a reincarnation of these men from the Second World War. Youre theyre descendents. Youre dead men risen, and this was way of unidentifying them and became a theme of the book because the three main characters lieutenant the Battalion Commander, the Company Commander, and the pursuing commander were all killed in action and those three levels of leaders have been killed in a british battalion since the korean war. Sense their testimony from the grave is at the core of the book and theyre dead men risen. And the other thing was an incident which again is one of the emotional parts of the book when seven welsh guardsmen in the back of a vehicle that toppled into a canal. They were hacking upsidedown in the dark with water rising like this and they were upsidedown, and some blacked out and just before one reached for a picture of his wife and a sonogram of his unborn child and clutched to
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