cheers and applause hey, welcome to the daily show my name is jon stewart. Got a good one for you tonight. Martin short ed great martin short is going to be joining us but first congratulations to anyway got a great show for you tonight. Have a great show for you tonight. Thursday we got wind of a Little Something happening at the pentagon. The u. S. Is now classifying previously publishing held information about the war in afghanistan, thins like the afghan troop levels the amount of money that is being spent there and where its being spent. Jon trap levels your spending levels, your literacy levels hob billpass word your secret phantom. Oh this all just weeks after the president announced with we were ending our combat anything mission in afghanistan. Very suspicious thought we here at the show. laughter a classic case of a governmental or well yan coverup. The reality of a war disappearing into the abyss of bureaucratic symantecs. Obscured by the bold 24 point of a classified stamp.
Afghan troop levels the amount of money that is being spent there and where its being spent. Jon trap levels your spending levels, your literacy levels hob billpass word your secret phantom. Oh this all just weeks after the president announced with we were ending our combat anything mission in afghanistan. Very suspicious thought we here at the show. laughter a classic case of a governmental or well yan coverup. The reality of a war disappearing into the abyss of bureaucratic symantecs. Obscured by the bold 24 point of a classified stamp. We immediately got to without. Not researching but creating this graphic opening. laughter jon now how wonderfulfully rye. laughter we even had the president of the United States on stap rebutting the very idea of these types of i will use his words, well not really shenanigans. We have secret passwords secret budgets, i will turn the page on a growing empire of classified information and restore the balance weve lost between the necessarily secret an
First congratulations to anyway got a great show for you tonight. Have a great show for you tonight. Thursday we got wind of a Little Something happening at the pentagon. The u. S. Is now classifying previously publishing held information about the war in afghanistan, thins like the afghan troop levels the amount of money that is being spent there and where its being spent. Jon trap levels your spending levels, your literacy levels hob billpass word your secret phantom. Oh this all just weeks after the president announced with we were ending our combat anything mission in afghanistan. Very suspicious thought we here at the show. laughter a classic case of a governmental or well yan coverup. The reality of a war disappearing into the abyss of bureaucratic symantecs. Obscured by the bold 24 point of a classified stamp. We immediately got to without. Not researching but creating this graphic opening. laughter jon now how wonderfulfully rye. laughter we even had the president of the United
Left more than 60 million human beings dead, or three of every 100 people on earth. It was an event that stamped the lives of every american, especially the lives of young men and women who served in the u. S. Armed forces. World war ii called for sacrifice from every social stratum and every walk of life. An entire generation answered the call bravely, even eagerly. They understood that cherished ideals of Human Dignity and individual freedom were literally at stake. Easily more than 500,000 missouri and kansas citizens served during the war, from rural teenagers who had not finished high school to omar bradley of missouri and Dwight Eisenhower of kansas. Three of those individuals are with us tonight to share and reflect on their experiences in this terrible yet galvanizing war that ended 70 years ago this year during the presidency of harry s truman. These men need no introduction to a kansas city audience, as your welcome indicated. But they are so humble, i do want to talk a littl
They understood that cherished ideals of Human Dignity and individual freedom were literally at stake. Easily more than half a million missouri and kansas citizens served during the war, from rural teenagers who had not finished high school to omar bradley of missouri and Dwight Eisenhower of kansas. Three of those individuals are with us tonight to share and reflect on their experiences in this terrible yet galvanizing war that ended 70 years ago this year during the presidency of harry s truman. These men need no introduction to a kansas city audience. As youre welcome indicated. But they are so humble, i do want to talk a little bit about each of the menu will hear from. Henry bloch was a student at the university of michigan when the u. S. Entered the war. Having learned in school the horrors of trench warfare in what was known as the great war, world war i, he resolved to do his service above ground and enlisted in the Army Air Corps. , trained as a navigator, he was assigned to t