here it is. [video clip] as an international collaboration, this embodies how america leads the world not through power, but the power of our example. a partnership with others. it symbolizes the relentless spirit of american ingenuity and shows what we can achieve. what more we can discover not just about what s in place, but our own planet and climate, like nasa s earth system observatory we launched last year. that s why the federal government must invest in science and technology, more than we have in the past. the images will remind the world that america can do big things, and remind the american people, especially our children, that there is nothing beyond our capacity, nothing beyond our capacity. we can see possibilities no one has ever seen before. we can go places no one has ever gone before. you have heard me say over and over again, america is defined by one single word possibilities. possibilities. i want to thank the team and nasa for once again showing tha
is no longer protected or guaranteed by the constitution. in the words of justice kagan, sotomayor, the conservative majority has consigned women to second-class citizenship. in overturning roe, the supreme court has a least a health-care crisis across america. make no mistake women s health and in some cases, their lives, are at risk. today, the committee will examine the very real consequences of the unprecedented decision. we start with a video. [video] the supreme court has overturned roe v. wade. pregnancy laws can land people in prison. pregnant people being criminalized for pregnancy outcomes. data collected from fertility apps and google searches could be used to prosecute abortion. black women and women of color are disproportionately criminalized. some of the bans do have civil and criminal penalties in terms of how they will be applied. every time a woman gets abortions, women who are younger, women who are old, women of all races, women who never thoug
The Sheehan Family foundation and mark and pat suen. Many thanks to jack and mary romanos, our sponsors for this gloriouss venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. Wed like to extend special thanks to our literary members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. 90 of our venue of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have a savannah book festival app for your phonene available this yea. Its very easy to get it from the app store, and there are directions in your programs. Please try to download it. Itll help you today. Before we get started, i have a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediately following this presentation, brian curtis will be signing festivalpurchased copies of his books in Telfair Square right across the way. If you are planning to stay for the next author presentation, pleasese move forward to seats n the front so that we can accurately count how many i spas are availa
Courage and faith. He passed away in july. In 1936 competing in the Olympic Games, in 1941 enlisting in the air force and in 1943 in a search and rescue mission he crashes into the ocean leaving his family convince head was killed in action. But zamperini zamperini stuck on a life raft in the open ocean and captured by the japanese and held by a prisoner of war. Still suffering with depression and posttraumatic stress until he meets the reverend billy graham. And now to talk about this story of survival and revival, the president and ceo of the billy graham eadvantage listic association. Why what was his relationship with your father . He was a war hero and the whole country knew him. Torrance named their airport after him thinking he was dead because he was so well known as an olympian and his heroism in the second world war. My father was just a young preacher. But he was holding a meeting in 1949. He was asked by a group of christian businessmen and some pastors to come and hold a s
Person i read it to was my just turned 8yearold granddaughter, and she said, its getting long, cokie. [laughter] she got her mom up the next morning saying, i have to read you cokies book. These are my favorite. She likes the spies. [inaudible] im told were done. Im really sorry. You know what . That means you have to go back to school. Oh. I know. [laughter] you did a great job. Thank, and were going to wing it a little bit, keep it easy, and well just take it where it goes a lot of people ask, where, you know, why did how did the book come about. Why did you write the book . I have to say that the book actually started in a way ive been working on the book almost four years now. While i was working on american sniper which i wrote with chris kyle, another great, great american. One night chris and i were hanging around in his den, and we were looking at pictures, but the picture came up of some guys who were about to go out own a field mission, and theres one in a slightly different