I welcome every day for the need to reauthorize the Compensation Fund i recognize myself for a opening statement. September 11 is one of the deadliest days with almost 3000 lives lost because the terrorist attacks in the United States on the day with casualty numbers much higher and offsite and the fact that we dont know the full casualty count almost 18 years later, thats because years after 9 11 tens of thousands of First Responders who ran towards the toxic clouds unleashed on that day as well as members of the community surrounding the crash site continue to develop cancers and other diseases that prematurely end their lives. We undermined their employment like prospects with related illnesses and many people may not even be aware of that fact we continue suffering congress and in september 11 and legislation passed in 2010. We found in law and authorized the fund for five years and congress established the original fund 11 days after 9 11 to provide compensation for those physical
Must cut our ties with the small bitter politics of the past. Ohio Governor John Kasich says he wrote john mccains name on the ballot. Pulling out all the stops. A 6 30 tomorrow at asu for Hillary Clinton. And mike pence is here as well. A 10 00 a. M. Rally. On thursday tim kaine will make a stop in tucson and giving a speech in spanish. Since comey announced the newly discovered emails were learning attorney general Loretta Lynch and fbi director james comey met on monday. They exchanged emails and on monday they talked on the sidelines of a meeting. The officials officials said it was a friendly tonight. But lives are forever changed after two drivers are killed in a wrong way crash. It happened near 35th avenue. We are waiting to learn more about who they are. Witnesses saw that wrong way driver acting drunk at a circle k and tried to stop him from driving. He headed down the 101 in the wrong direction and crashed into the other driver. Both cars went up in flames. A tragedy in balt
Casualties in getting to the same place. They maintain great hope lee would triumph. Certain that lee and his men would somehow inflict a fatal blow to the norths willingness to fight. In the union army that june, soldiers saw the spires of richmond just eight miles away. Union soldiers, too, gained hope from that. But recognized, too, how hard those last eight miles would be. A pennsylvania soldier wrote of the moment, in the prospects, theres a magic influence in the expression as it passes from lip to lip. Eight miles from richmond, boys. Only eight miles from richmond. What treasure, what a restored peaceful happy in the United Country and the a free government can pay for the precious blood that must be shed in the inexpressible sufferings that must be endured before this short distance can be accomplished. That pennsylvanian could not likely have imagined just how painful the answer to that question would be. We hope that you will join us, the staff here at fredericksburg and pos
The casualties were astounding, a stouinstounding to soldiers, generals and those left back home. Amidst the staggering losses at cole harbor, for every soldier killed, wounded or captured, there was a family. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters that also felt the loss. The loss of the men that fell at cole harbor in the spring of 1864 reverb rasreverberated thr kmunlts a communities across the north and south. The battlegrounds left indelible kbag impacts on the living left behind. So, too, were the believes of the men who fought that bloody spring. Indeed, in spite of so many lost lives, those believes and ideas about nation, government and home became even more deeply enslie enshrined in the hearts and minds of those left to fight on tonight to reflect upon and learn from today. Writing soon after the war with a perspective on hindsight. Sally putnam came to believe that in its own unique way, cole harbor had been a landmark event in the 1866 Campaign Across Central
Been going on for some three years. Massive casualties and losses. Tremendous disaffection in the north with the war. It looked like it would go on forever. Abraham lincoln, of course, is up for reelection. Its important to have battlefield victories for the north and its important to win battles in virginia. Virginia is still the preserve of robert e. Lee and the storied army of Northern Virginia. So lincoln brings east his best general, thats going to be ulysses s. Grant, the general who won all the battles in the west. And he gives grant a basically a twopart requirement. First, to bring organization, to bring continuity to the union war effort. And secondly, to defeat the army of Northern Virginia. And grant goes about making it possible to carry out that charge with a vengeance. First he puts together a program, unlike any that the war has yet seen. He realized that up to this point, battles would last a couple of days, and then the armies would pull apart for months. Grant would