At the age of 91. This oral history is from the voices of the Manhattan Project, created by the Atomic Heritage Foundation and the los alamos historical society. Val i was born on a cattle ranch in northwest nebraska, 1923. Ranch. Ually born on a this is about five miles from a thele town of merriman, in sandhills of nebraska. You probably do not know anything, but they occupy 1 5th of the state. Its cattle raising country. They call it sandhills because the terrain is made out of sand. Hills are the dune. That is almost uprpure sand. Buthills are the the only thinge grown there without destroying the terrain is something that lives off the native grasses, and that is cattle. You try turning the soil lower, and is simply blows away. So, thats the sandhills dedicated to growing cattle. Purebreds. Raced upre was too smalls to support a family on raising beef cattle. He raised breeding stock. That was the enterprise i was born into. Have an older brother and sister. Both of them now dead.
Val fitch i was born on a cattle ranch in northwest nebraska, 1923. And actually born on a ranch. This is about five miles from a little town of merriman, in the sandhills of nebraska. You probably do not know anything, but they occupy 1 5 of the state. It is prime cattle raising country. They are called the sandhills because the terrain is made out of sand. The hills are the dunes. Sand such aspierce you find at the shore. But the only thing that can be grown there without destroying the terrain is something that lives off the native grasses, and that is cattle. You try turning the soil lower, itover to grow crops and simply blows away. So, thats the sandhills dedicated to growing cattle. My father raised purebred herfords on the little ranch he had. The ranch was too small to support a family on raising beef cattle. He raised breeding stock. That was the enterprise i was born into. I have an older brother and sister. Both of them now dead. My brother was 10 years older and my sister
Colorado . Yes we do. With Water Quality engineers so we worked collaborative leave with the epa and others to provide those resources to have a colorado solution. Part of your job is the people of the state of colorado that the water will be saved. Does it concern you that as the chairman noted as a followup to my question in the there was zero engineers at the epa working on the mind that had the high potential to blow out . With the state of colorado handled it that way . It concerns me but that doesnt mean they were not involved in some capacity. You are in the government. It is your job to have oversight. Wouldnt have been prudent for the epa to have that oversight to make good choices before we had a catastrophe . I dont know if they rely and other resources. He would handle the very differently . Our department has its own engineers for that situation. While we were talking, if you have the unlimited budget going forward, would you be supportive of the goods and your chin legisl
Moving money and putting off unnecessary programs and delaying modernization but those cuts and delays we will do with next year with the return now of sequestration and added to the cuts already would be a back breaker for the United States army and i would argue the military at large. Were doing everything we can. Just basic commitments to save normal security. Yes we have a presence in afghanistan but those are not big operations. That is dated day commitments. We are mortgage eight our readiness just to meet these commitments is something bigger happens we will not be able to respond to it awaited people are used to was responding. Divemaster to get you to help us by giving specific examples. That is a very good example. White the platforms you have to give up wort strength you have to reduce our installations to have to close a week to help them understand. It is difficult we have 30 or 45 seconds before they are thinking about Something Different and that is a challenge. We do ha