It was started by a ban of paralyzed veterans as a club, a membership organization, if you will, but about self advocacy because veteran service organizes that have been around for a while but werent advocating for the needs of veterans in that era. Equal access in society, research. You would die at 18 months if you had a spinal cord injury. George patton was a war hero but died of a spinal cord injury because the research hadnt caught up with the injury. And that band of paralyzed veterans is whats now a 76yearold organization of memberled advocates who look for other paralyzed veterans and pull them in and take care of them. Brian where does the money come from . 100 from individual donors and corporations. We dont take government funding. Have to deliver results i wanted to get out of buffalo and see the world. But i wanted to be a military Police Officer. Im not sure why i had that fixation early on and i thought the marine corps was a good path because of the reputation and disci
Veterans only in the first hour come eastern time zones call 2027488000. Mountain or pacific time zone, 2027488001. If you would like to post a comment at social media, cspanwj is the twitter handle and post a comment on facebook. Com cspan. There is the front page of the wall street journal. A simple photo, a day to honor those who served. An Army Sergeant of chandler arizona visiting a great at the Arlington National cemetery in virginia. They point out today commemorations around the country will pay tribute to those who have served the u. S. Armed forces. The front page of the wall street journal. President trump who is overseas was in vietnam yesterday and spoke briefly about veterans, thanking them and talked about the Veterans Administration. Sident trump we will get to the video of the president in a moment once we get it loaded up. Facts about veterans day from ,ne of the alabama publications they talk about the fact that there are 6. 7 million vietnam era veterans and 2016, 7
Known for the lawn that leads up to the tower at the top of the hill and the fringe of trees that surround it, its known all over the city, you can see it all over. And part of what the university is proposing as a mitigation is a landscape plan to make sure that those large mature trees are secure and safe. While one mitigation in order to be a mitigation, the trees have to exist. They have to survive the process along the way. And ill give you the example of what went on with loyola village. We were told at an imp meeting there that the campus landscape plan will protect those large mature trees. We didnt have to worry about them. We asked that they be marked during the construction or conditional use phase. They were. But that didnt stop the fact that my wife came home one afternoon and of the eight trees that were 50 to 70 feet tall right directly behind our property, six were already down and one of them stripped. It took her the rest of the morning to get some attention from usf
It needs to include the fact those trees will be platted and marked on the site and given to the planner ahead of the design process so he he can avoid them. That was not done the first time around and i dont think its too much to ask that we go to that next level in terms of making sure those trees survive. I really feel that these need to happen at the imp process because if we await conditional use, once the building is designed its hard to change. And if you look at the plan in there a lot of those trees they show on the metric around the landscape excuse me, around the dormitory, will not be there. Theyll be gone. It will be too late. So, the screening that theyre proposing as a mitigation will not happen. I ask you to make them provide that before you accept the imp. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please, and let me call a few more names. Tanya solomon. Bob lee. Ruth levy. [speaker not understood]. Christin chris wall. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is ruth levy. I l
Plan will protect those large mature trees. We didnt have to worry about them. We asked that they be marked during the construction or conditional use phase. They were. But that didnt stop the fact that my wife came home one afternoon and of the eight trees that were 50 to 70 feet tall right directly behind our property, six were already down and one of them stripped. It took her the rest of the morning to get some attention from usf and some attention from the contractor. She saved one of those eight trees. That was all that was possible. Now, the university accepted that it was a mistake. They accepted that they really had some culpability here. So, what did they do . They offered to plant six fast growing tree. Ill tell you those six Fast Growing Trees have grown very fast. Theyre 20 feet tall now and dont block what they were supposed to block 13 years ago. Ill be dead before they become the screen theyre supposed to be. The issue is how can we prevent this from happening again . I