By PHILLIP TUTOR | The Anniston Star, Ala. | Published: April 17, 2021 ANNISTON, Ala. (Tribune News Service) The day before U.S. and British forces began air strikes in Afghanistan, members of the Alabama State Defense Force gathered at a military base to begin training not for war, but to replace those who were. They trained at Fort McClellan. Thus began one of Calhoun County s earliest links to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and America s involvement in its Forever War, which President Biden says he ll end by removing the final 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan this year. That link also highlighted the beguiling paradox that still surrounds Anniston s Army post, whose origin traces to the National Guardsmen who used the Bains Gap hills for artillery practice before World War I.
observation that more nation states have failed because of the failure of their currency. we are out of time. greta s next with bart stupak. see you back here tomorrow night. greta: tonight, so what s he going to do? congressman bart stupak. last time we spoke, you were if i can be so bold to say, you said you were not going to vote for what you saw as the bill that was coming your way. has your position changed since last week? no, it has not changed at all. we are not voting for health care unless we can address some concerns. there are many concerns, especially with the house, with our vote, we sort of passed the senate bill without any amendments, goes to the president. he signs it and we are to do reconciliation. what if reconciliation does not get through? i am sure we can pass it in the house, but what the senate? members of the house are very uncomfortable in a way, voting on a piece of legislation that you don t know it s going to be corrected by the sena
national captioning institute www.ncicap.org we will have more. stuart: sarah palin is announcing leaving her post july 26. she is saying she is taking the fight for alaska and a new direction, adding that we need every american fighting for rights. the question is, why did she do it? what prompted the allowance meant announced a? maybe her brother knows. we re joined by phone from the governor s house. welcome to the program. do you know why she is stepping down? what i believe after a few conversations with her on the subject is that two months ago but did, we were at a ski resort, talking in a hotel room, and she reiterated to me the amount of time she was spending defending herself from these ethics complaints that have been thrown out and this nonstop negative media blitz, and she said she was spending up to 80% of her time and a lot of her staff defending herself when they should be focusing on state issues. it is not fair to the state and the family and i think t