which includes the records of another mother for peace. you don t have to buy war, mrs. smith. i am donna reed owens, the cochairman of another mother for peace. dorothy jones and i would like to share with you this keynote address of our 1970 world mother s day assembly, which was held in san francisco. betsy palmer was chairman of the event. and you broke angie brooks, the president of the united nations general assembly and the recipient of the another mother for peace award, issued a call for women everywhere to join us in the mother s resistance to war. as the first signature, she launched that document on its historic journey around the world to be signed by mothers of every land. we wish all of you could have been there, and that is why it is my very special pleasure to introduce to you our keynote speaker that day, commissioner of consumer affairs of new york city, beth myerson grant. [applause] i have a great sense of pride. sharing this day with all of you and
betsy palmer was chairman of the the president of the united nations general assembly and the recipient of the another mother for peace award, issued a call for women everywhere to join us in the mother s resistance to war. she launched our document on its historic journey around the world to be signed by mothers of every land. we wish all of you could have been there, and that is why it is my special pleasure to introduce to you our keynote speaker, commissioner of consumer affairs of new york city, beth myerson grants. grant. [applause] i have a great sense of pride. sharing this day with all of you and sharing this dais with the people you face. it is very meaningful to come all the way across our torn and divided country and see some of people whose heads are in the same place as mine. the last time any of us were together was a little bit over a year ago and washington. barbara androthy, paul, we were at the introduction of the peace department legislation we are cam
read quite recently and was extremely impressed by, learning war, the evolution of fighting doctrine in the u.s. navy. it reminds us of something important. that what happens today is often completely dependent on things that happened yesterday and, in fact, that happened over the course of many yesterdays. that they are used to formulate doctrine and ideas for generations to come. learning war was reviewed in the new york times review of books by tom ricks. the real hero of hone s book is not an individual but a large complex organization, the american navy, that grew from second-rate status to become the world s premier maritime force. here to tell us that story and parse the lessons learned, trent hone. [applause] trent: thank you for that excellent introduction and thank you, jeremy, and all of our host and all of you for being here today. i am pleased to give you some of the insights from the book, placeing war, and help guadalcanal in context. i want to place it in
cases that deters access to justice and the terrors some of the important things i referenced. you are correct that courthouses have not been on the sensitive list. i know that some months ago i.c.e. determined to put courthouses in a special category of serving him some sort of special treatment. i agree that courthouses are special places in the nature of the church but i can readily see for reasons of public safety why any law enforcement officer would feel compelled to take action with regard to an individual in a courthouse. i ve asked our folks to better develop an exception with regard to courthouses. thank you mr. secretary. we have also talked about customs and border in terms of overtime inspections related to agriculture. the port of wellington and many of the ports have folks who would like to pay overtime so wenhold shiploads arrive they can get inspections in a timely fashion and this is subject to a very complicated interagency budgetary issue. my understan
people, and then just looking at the past videos of him versus that video. it was pretty clear to me that his health was deteriorating. mr. secretary, there s been some previous questioning about the risk future risk potential future risk to american service members if they were to have to recapture these five individuals who were swapped. in the prisoner of war exchange. is there any evidence whatsoever that any future risk for those five is any greater than the 532 folks who have previously been released by the bush administration or, for that matter, the 88 that have been released from the obama administration, a total of 620 prisoners. according to our intelligence community, the answer is no. one final question for you, mr. secretary. sergeant bergdahl, when he was captured, was a private 1st class. correct? for those who are not familiar, that would be an e-3. and today he is a sergeant, or an e-5. so he s been promoted twice by the army during his period of c