Let us know what reopening looks like in your part of the country. If you are in eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, it is 202 7488001. A special line throughout the morning for essential workers, 202 7488002. You can catch up with us on social media. Message,end us a text 202 7488003 is that number. Good monday morning to you. Here is the headline from the wall street journal last week. All 50 states have taken steps to reopen. Revivers hoping to economies. That is what we are going to talk about this morning, reopening, asking you what it looks like in your part of the country. Here is a map from the New York Times. That map, the blue states are the states in full reopening or partial phases of reopening. The striped blue and yellow lines are regional reopening scum and all states on that map in some process of reopening. , illinois, has had a stayathome order in effect since march 21. That is set to expire on may 29. We are t
And the reception it has gotten so far . Guest they will have three different fire departments, state police, american leisure honor guard American Legion honor guard. Leaders from the boys and girl scouts. They are expecting several hundred people to participate. The township supervisors had been discussing ways to honor memorial day, and how can they do it . Since the beginning of april, they have had a program where they have been giving out free food, and local Catering Companies and businesses are donating food and people financially impacted by covid19 can drive through the parking lot, get their readytoeat meal and be on their way. This somewhat mirrors that. They just decided if everybody is going to stay in their cars and be apart from every each can keep separate, why not have a parade in this way . ,ost the website lehighvalleylive. Com. What are other events you have covered in pennsylvania on how people are experiencing memorial day in a time of social distancing . Guest t
Look at the other perspectives. Our way of selecting an author is an author will submit a manuscript. We have a bunch of Senior Officers. Senior means age, not rank. They review the manuscripts and make a recommendation to the director of the book program, and then the wheels start rolling. The negotiation with the publisher goes on between the book Program Director and the author himself. Weve got a nice stable of printing houses, universities and other organizations that produce our books. As a bit of history, in the audience in the back, the roger, thes dr. Genesis, start of this years book program. A number of years ago when it came under attack, we brought roger in and he resolved it and kept it running. Roger is a colonel in the regiment. If you are a tanker, you know what regiment im talking about. Im not a tanker. Im an engineer. In the last row, and some of you have heard this story before, is a retired general, but in the opening days of world war ii, this individual was stat
Months and years that followed the u. S. Media documented frequent stories of desertion, drug use combat refusal. Racial conflict. Challenges to let a legitimate authority. And scandals and atrocities. Internal military documents tell the same story. In the thinking about what happens, we suggested that things are different before 1968. As we Start Talking about post that. Im giving you a clear picture. The most common claim that originated in the military is that in vietnam that the United States had the best trained, best equipped, best disciplined force in their history. There was a lot of high morale. You had a general westmoreland who said that their performance exceeded my expectations. And journalists in 1966 saying that morale is remarkably high. And a former combat historian who insists that if morale was bad we would know about it. More than anything else i wanted to point to the briefing that was given to the secretary in saigon in 1967. Where they said that morale was excep
Of lyndon and lady bird johnson, andhonorable hubert held, miss lucy baines johnson, daughter of lyndon and lady bird johnson, and the retired Major General of the United States army, the silver star, bronze star, and purple heart recipient. [applause] the archive of this library contains thousands of letters to president. Many of which concern the vietnam war. These reflect the dramatically contrasting views of the war held by americans, including our troops. Dear mr. President , here is a picture of a little via menus a little girl and myself. They live in a village about eight miles southeast of denying. Their mother was killed by vc. It is our duty to keep her smile, which betrays so much on her face. There are many more who do not have the freedom to smile, which she has. Its our duty as americans to bring happiness to those who may otherwise never be as free of care as she. To be able to pose with her and have her still look so happy gives the idea of the good we are doing here.