Please welcome the 43rd president of the United States, george w. Bush and former first lady, mrs. Laura bush. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, accompanied by first Lady Michelle obama. [applause] please remain standing for the national anthem. Detail, halt oh, say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave [applause] release step [drumbeat] [applause] please welcome, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in new york city, reverend dr. Calvin o. Butts iii. [applause] rev. Butts it is hard to believe it has been years since we were here for the groundbreaking. Such an accom
The tomb guard badge, which is depicted on our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge in the United States military with the exception of the astronaut a astronaut badge. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man and now in the brotherhood of fellowship of tomb guards. We have a society, we are 501c3 organization and part of the bylaws is is we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, this, sort of a sweeping generation here, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talk to School Groups, and its appalling to me how little they know. Its not their fault. We have allowed all this teaching and teaching to the test and we have not put history on the test. And i will get off my soap box. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups probono, this is my 81st speech this year. In 2015. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is over. Im speaking pretty much nonstop from the first
Test. Test. It was sitting there so long, they played out of that quarry but close but no cigar in terms of the color of the stone. So he was one of the engineers on the Washington Monument. Another little circular thing here, the guest of honor at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in 1848 was George Washington and custis, this guy who helped complete it is on his lawn. That looks like the Washington Monument. This is the grave of the first person of european descent to be buried on the property and her name is mary randolph. Randolphs were very prominent in virginia. Her father was thomas mann ran go dolph and a direct descendent of pocahontas, and she wrote a book called the virginia housewife that was the most popular cookbook and housekeeping book of the early the first half of the 19th century. Her cuss cousin was the wife of George Washington custis and she was buried there. Born april 30, 1781, and died in 1857. From his death until the union troops came a
Our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut badge is in the low 200. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man who has completed his training and is ready to be considered a badge holder and of the fraternity and sorority, brotherhood or fellowship of tomb guard. We are a 501 c 3 organization and part of our bylaws is that we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, sort of a sweeping generalization, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talked to School Groups and it is appalling how little they know of our history. It is not their fault. We have failed them because we have allowed all of this testing and teaching to the test and not put history on the test. I will get off my soapbox. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups pro bono. This is my 81st speech this year. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is
Intelligence after some rough spots has actually been quite effective. So, i wouldnt change that. Heres what i would do. We talk a lot about private public partnerships. We do not do them very well. We our National Security sits on a bed of privately held assets and we have basically left those privately held assets on their own. There are a couple of mandates here and there. But we dont protect we dont protect them, and we dont utilize them in a real partnership. We have to get over the notion that private is private and public is public and figure out mechanisms by which we can help each other in both sectors. We have been miserable at it and that has caused all manner of vulnerabilities in our society that i think could be fixed if people who are experienced and people of goodwill put their minds to it. Mike . Yeah, harvey, i will reinforce what jamie just said. This is beyond at the dotted line, it should be a solid line in terms of organizational charts. I do think we have fundame