We have several other memorials, but not a world war i memorial, and therefore there is much excitement about this project. Just a few words about our speaker, edwin found, edwin of notn, the grandson one, but two world war i veterans. He cofounded the world war i Memorial Foundation. Of aled to the Advocacy National world war i memorial on july, 2013. Mr. Fountain was appointed by Senate Majority leader harry to the centennial commission. He was elected vicechairman of the commission in july, 2014. Mr. Fountain is a graduate of the university of north carolina, and the university of virginia law school. Thank you, tony. And good morning. My name is edwin fountain. The commission was formed by congress in january, 2013 and given a mission of ensuring suitable observation in this country of a centennial of this great war, and more importantly, commemorating the service of american servicemen and women in educating the public about this causes and consequences of that war. It has 12 memb
People who work in health care are disgusted. People come up to me all the time and say, did that happen here . People care. When i heard some of the testimony i heard from the phoenix v. A. , it was gut wrenching. I couldnt sleep. Peopleve there are many within the v. A. System who feel the same way. But there exists a cancer within leadership, a few individuals that perpetuate this idea that we should be silent, that we shouldnt stand up and tell and do the right thing, and be honest. Everyone makes mistakes. But when you make a mistake and try to conceal it, that is the question we should be asking who are these individuals who would alter data and hide the truth and prevent patient care . Collects our primetime special on Veterans Health care is tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern. In a few moments, republican senators Saxby Chambliss of georgia, Ranking Member of the Intelligence Committee on National Security. In an hour, the group interamerican dialogue posts every form on Central Am
Opportunity to defend themselves, and defend the freedom of their country. Just as tyler and i were coming in today, we got word that not only has a new Prime Minister been appointed, but that Prime Minister has named a new president , and it is not mr. Maliki, which is a good move. He needs to move on. An individual who is a shiite who actually work for maliki and is the speaker for the current iraqi parliament, he is the individual that has been named the president. I will take that as a positive step. And hopefully we can see a government that can stand together and defend democracy. And lets not kid ourselves. Iraqi democracy is not what we think of in the United States, but what is best for the iraqi people is what we should want there. And yet, weve got all of these scenarios swirling around the world. And here we are in america dealing with another crisis of our own. My friend, admiral mike mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has continuously said that the Number
I know is fast to get in there, but when the wheels are turned to come home, its slow. I couldnt accept it. People are like they are going to do this to time. I said no, this is clear. This was what was supposed to have been done from the beginning. Even my families, my loved wupz ones that lost. That made me fight more. I never gate gave up my fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of co
Our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of court as long as 120150 days in jail. My office, when we learned of this, we were not involved in the creation of it, challenged it because we believed that it was unconstitutional because you were not charging people with crimes and you are jailing people for contempt of court when legally they hadnt failed to come to court because in most of these cases they had simply been served with citations. So the legal challenge is filed and the court was found to be unconstitutional by t