unusual newsday, which may b in part a function of th holiday? but i don t really think, so i think it s just turning out to be an unusual newsday. first, of all i should mention that this remarkable search an rescue operation is stil underway right now about 370 miles off the coas of newfoundland in the north atlantic a submarine is an autonomous self supporting undersea vessel. a submersible, as opposed to a submarine, is a vessel tha also goes under the water bu it is not autonomous it has the use either anothe ship or a surface platform o some kind as a home base t which it is based. the vehicle that has been lost that they are looking for righ now, is a submersible. the ship from which it launche lost contact with it yesterday about an hour and 45 minutes after it started a dive. the dive was supposed to b about two and a half hours down, three hours on the bottom of the ocean, and then another tw hours back so it was about eight hour beneath the waves but about an hour
divides and can turn this into something that feels different most of the other holidays tha we have got. yes, it is a celebration, but it is also a commemoration the celebration recognizes the joy that people felt, knowin they would no longer b possible to legally separate families the way, the main trauma of slavery was neve seeing your mother and fathe and children again because the were treated as cattle and sold whipping, all of those kinds o things but they knew that they were going to be in for a struggle. so those kinds of things g together you are happy that one thing i and it, but a new struggle begins and that, i think, is the thin that as you are suggesting i makes the holiday fertil ground for a conversation an perhaps conversation eve across racial lines but even party lines, to the extent tha we can do that these days. it s also true, we should not overstate the idea tha this is settled as a matte