Published by a traditional publisher and that average age is 37 years old. So, i will tell you, bill, you are skewing the numbers very much. Bill walker grew up in knoxville, tennessee and went to the university of virginia for his undergraduate and masters and went off to teach at College Teaching at the university of new orleans and at Lamar University in texas. Then he went into the administration to be a Public Information officer, associate Vice President for Public Information. He was at Gettysberg College and Virginia Tech and finished up his work at william and mary. I first met him in a class on Woodrow Wilson world war one and i know some people in the audience were in that class and other classes like it. As he told the stories of world war i and specifically making thosef o those of us that live in wilsons birthplace understand the meaning of that man and world war i. He talked about the research he was doing for his book in the classes and later on i would see bill around
Question about that when he died, he was utterly inconsolable. Though he tried to console his children, it was a pretty tone deaf letter to his other son and he was saying whatever you have to make it half but to the soldiers. Its a heartbreaking moment he felt completely responsible for his sons death. [inaudible] microphone o microphone or i will shout it out again. Which of the wise did you wiu find the most abound of material did which was the most difficult . Most didnt keep their wives letters because they were in the field and couldnt you or they would protectively destroy them so they couldn could be capturd read. But he saved all of his wifes letters. He wrote her a letter in which he said i will tear every one of your letters up because every ounce on the march tiles and he didnt. That is the most complete. It was astonishing because the two of them were incredibly beautiful writers and if you do nothing else than find and read the letters you will have done yourself a favor.
Attack the same year as grant died. And nelly fled to europe again and that is when the memoirs were written and when her daughter was copying parts of the letters to give to the director. She had to know what was going on and allowed it to happen. She lived the rest of her life in france really. It was at a villa that was owned by her daughter and her soninlaw they had named after her husbands greatest victory. There is almost numbered else who would consider that the greatest victory. The shermans she predeceased him but they lived in washington after the war. He became the Lieutenant General of the army. She did work, as he was dealing with indians who were threatening the transcontinental rail road. She was doing missionary work and started an orphanage in washington. She was always into charitable work. There was talks about her husbands flirtation and affairs and there is evidence of that but it is clear he loved her. He was very healthy but died two years after ellen died. At th
Intensive care. His doctors at parker and venice hospital are still optimistic and say while hes critical, he is doing much better and opening his eyes, but it will take a long time for him to recover. We all knew this was his calling. Reporter it was evident from an early age detective dan brite wanted to be law enforcement. Douglas county investigators say last friday he took a bullet from caliber rifle. People ask how are you able to maintain composure . I was like well, he doesnt know it yet, but he and i are still in competition and even though hes winning, he doesnt know it, but through his strength is the reason why that were all being strong. A s. W. A. T. Medic right at the scene, a hospital minutes away, the doctors all helped save brites life. We wouldnt be here today if we didnt have the smart were on the scene, the access to a s. W. A. T. Medic immediately. Reporter a week later he is still in icu, but doctors are optimistic and for them if you ask, his care is personal. W
But the governor will be speaking for approximately 40 to 50 minutes. Oftentimes we get an advanced copy of the speech. We havent received that yet. He says hell be talking to the whole state. Often theyll be talking directly at lawmakers because theyre hoping especially during an Election Year theyll get along and make progress. But the governor says he really waats to speak to everyone in big job hes got, because he has to talk about not only the things he thinks went well in the last year, but also the things that we need. A lot of people think we need more money for roads, improve education, make college more affordable. Even the House Speaker says lawmakers need to fix tabor. Republicans have said all along dont tamper with the taxpayer bill of rights. Theyre going to come to loggerheads, head to head right out of the chute. The session f course goes 120 days. Its scheduled to adjourn may 11th. There are a lot of things on the table and opefully the governor can start making his c