It should be a fascinating event first of all i would like to thank the city of charlottesville for providing this wonderful venue. Every year they do so for the virginia festival of the book and its really outstanding for both the authors and the audience. I will also thank charlottesvilles on tv 10 for broadcasting todays session. Just a reminder, this session is being recorded so when it comes time for the q a session raise your hand. You will be recognized but a microphone will be passed to you so that you can pose your question. Its important that you speak into the microphone so the question can be recorded. Please, please turn off any cell phones that you might have with you. The festival is free of charge and not free of cost though. Please remember that the virginia festival of the book is sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the humanities. There are ways to support this organization by direct support or otherwise. At the information desk at the omni are envelopes in whic
Philippines. On an Agency Reports from inside Syria Government forces pushed back on opposition fighters in the capital damascus and elsewhere. Workers at japans Damage Nuclear plant have started a delicate and risky operation. Theyre removing fuel rods from a reactor building at the cushion and itt. Its the first step in whats expected to be a decades long process to de commissioned the facility electric Power Company workers. After a move that more than fifteen hundred fuel run assemblies from the reactor for building the rods are currently stored in a pool. Most of them are used extremely hot and highly radioactive. The march two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami triggered a Hydrogen Explosion that damaged the reactor for building workers we use a crane attached to a specially built structure to remove the rounds to go Officials Say will take more than a year to complete the operation. The workers will then have to remove fuel rods from three other reactor buildings. Reside
New relationship. A Japanese Court has approved a re trial for a Seventy Eight year old man on death row for quadruple murder nearly five decades ago. They also ordered his release the first such decision from a Japanese Court and eight the world xi at the school reports. Ill have my back has been reading forty eight years after his arrest. He thinks he will help. I recently received medical treatment in prison and as this day she did well for one of the temple one than forty years old its been eating in his innocence i just want to tell him that he can find any the train bell was convicted of killing his boss and three funny man this team still custody. That doesnt make it to the killings during testing but need it now stands at his trial the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence in nineteen eighteen. His lawyers asked that the trial be reopened when the Court Accountability in two thousand and two after twenty seven years of hearings. Lol heres immediately sold on retrial again. Ch
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Thanks and telling things that might upset people. Maybe i will take the last question. Wars make writers and wars make ms. , and i wonder myths. And i wonder for you, as these wars begin to kind of fade, certainly they are not on our front pages anymore but what do you think should endure in the culture in terms of an understanding of the young men and women who served . What should we know . What should we continue to no . Man, i dont know. I think we will find out, right . What i wanted when i wrote this book was not that somebody would kind of take away one thing that i even knew. When i was hoping that people would engage with it and to get stuff that i dont know. There are other veterans who are writing books, theres more literature coming out about the wars it and they think it all kind of adds to the conversation that we are having about iraq, about what it meant. About veterans. What i want people to engage with veterans as humans, theres a way in which we kind of tend to conf