To partner with the bryant park coordination so its always great to come out and see our members and sometime wes have members from the museum as well as members in our Chairmans Council to come out and support us. Jonathan white is a fellow at the where he also serves as the universitys pre and treason in the civil war. He is currently at work on three books, including lincolns advice for lawyers, the final voyage of the uss monitor during the civil war. Please join me in welcoming jonathan w. White. Thank you so much for having me. Can you all hear me okay in the bleacher seats back there . Okay. I love having an opportunity to come to new york city. This is actually only my third trip here. I spent two weeks here, though, about eight years ago, i had a fellowship and i spent two weeks at the New York Historical society. I love going there to do research, in fact i stopped by there this afternoon with my daughter, shes 14 months old and we had to get a picture of her next to lincolns
Sweethearts two the soldiers returning from the front. And he argues that the music industry, including Irving Berlin, contributed to the war effort by producing patriotic songs. An 15 minute event was hosted by the president Woodrow Wilson house and washington, d. C. Good evening to all of you. I am the executive director of the president Woodrow Wilson House National trust historic site. We are supported by the donations of supporters including many of you. Thanks for being here this evening. Home to whichhe president and this is wilson moved the data left the white house in 2921. In 1921. President wilson passed away three years later. Misses wilson lived until 1961 and then upon her death left. It was opened as a Public Museum in 1963. We are now more than 50 years as an institution in washington, d. C. It is good to see all of you here tonight. Our program is entitled smile while you kiss me sad adieu. World war i songs. Let me introduce our speaker quickly. We like to remind peop
Bit easier due to many of these complaints. They make it seem like it is very seamless, but you have to submit all of your medical records, so you can have anything missing. If youre going to make a claim, you have to evidence of that in your medical record. If you never talk about whatever illness or, you have, your claim will get rejected. If that is a fair process on that level, people cannot randomly Say Something was associated with your service, especially when you get off of activeduty, youre supposed to have an exit physical, and you can still do this if you are on active duty. You can get it done while you are at a veteran v. A. Medical center. I followed up at the v. A. Medical center. Then the paper get submitted and documented. It is a slow process, it should not take more than a year, though, if that is a problem that is dragging on like this. Host the v. A. Calls a fully developed claim, what is that . Guest essentially when you submit a claim, just where to get picked up
I am a resident in santa rosa. Ive been a california resident since 1975. It pains me, and many of us that have to be here, and name from the past as some people in this room might remember charles wittman. Austin tower shooting. Since then, we have been on a path in this nation of moral degradation and the lack of god, lack of leadership at all levels right now. The lack of any kind of moral compass, as well as the lack of medical care for kids. In one of the things that is very unfortunate about a new town andorra and these other fans is that gun free zones do not seem to be a winning concept. I think that security is at some level an extremely good idea. We have more gun laws now than we know what to do with. You instructed us not to address the Second Amendment. That one phrase in there, to infringe, seems to be happening quite a lot lately. I have a lot of friends in town who have businesses that revolves around a Second Amendment. In this economy, i do not think we need to close
Schools, our communities, children and families must be safe. I respectfully ask my colleagues to make this issue of violence a priority and to support our nations leadership as they work through resolving this challenge which should not be difficult. If we compromise and keep focusing on saving lives. Madam chair, i pledge to support you and to support all my other colleagues with the Congressional Black Caucus to make a difficult task safe and to protect the lives of our children and families from gun fire and a culture of violence. Ms. Fudge i thank the gentlelady from ohio for participating. We certainly know how difficult this is going to be as we move forward, but im pleased. Thank you so much. I yield to the gentleman from new jersey who has joined our caucus. Representative donald payne junior. Pain pain mr. Speaker, let me mr. Payne let me begin by thanking my chairwoman, fudge for anchoring this evenings special order on the culture of violence. Coming together to address unv