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Administration with a concentration on American History from shepherd university. Keith has also served in the United States air force and the Air National Guard for 40 years and recently retired as a colonel with the 167th airlift wing. He lives with his wife cindy in martinsberg, west virginia. Please join me in welcoming keith as he talked about the battle of antietam from the perspective of the soldiers that experienced it firsthand. [ applause ] thank you, kevin. It is great to be with you. I certainly had a very enjoyable drive down here. This is some beautiful country. So what im going to do this evening, the mayor talked about perspective and what im going to share with you are actually two perspectives on the battle of antietam. Since im the opening speaker for three days of antietam information, we thought, kevin and i talked before we came down, it might be good to have a general overview of the maryland campaign. Im going to do a broad brush stroke to have some perspective
To have change our way of life is anyways. Is this is our shuttered and millions of americans are teleworking for the first time. Churches and schools are closed. Healthcare workers are working around the clock and just in the last five weeks race on the numbers i sawks this might look like nearly 30 million americans filed for unemployment. Most believe were already approaching the highest percentage of unemployed since the greatye depression. Now more than ever americans need to know that their leaders are working for them, and that they have voices as work to navigate in this pandemic. In a world where its no longer safe to be within six feet of each other, congress has to learn to adapt. Now the first time weve need to ensure the continuity of congress. For example, with the Nuclear Threat during the cold war, u. S. Government constructed a large bunkerrn for congress so we woud be required to meet outside of washington. Area where there is not a physical meeting location at risk,
Andrew cuomo speaking about the covid19 response. You are watching live coverage on cspan. To her left, the budget director. Numbers, the numbers continues to increase continue to increase. We have 130,000 people who have tested positive overall, 16,000 people in a Hospital System, 13,000 people who have been discharged. The number of deaths are up once again, the number of people we lost, the number of new yorkers. But which is159, effectively flat for two days. News,none of this is good attening of the curve is better than the increases we have seen. Still far and away the most impacted state. In new jersey and new jersey is having real difficulty. Since speaking with governor murphy, anything we can do together, we will. Michigan, also. California has leveled off. Having aiana is difficult time, so they are in our thoughts and prayers. The total number of hospitalizations are down. The icu admissions are down. And the daily inhibitions are down incubations are down. Those are all go