Is there any additional general Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This is an information item. Item number eleven. Adjournment. We are adjourned. Thank you. [gavel] this is a meeting of the recreation Part Commission with the secretary please call that roll call buell, here. Anderson, here. Harrison, here. Mcdonnell, here. And i believe bonilla is on her way. Im going to make a few announcements and then ill get started. As you said this is a meeting of the rec and Park Commission today is october 20 we ask that you would please turn off any sound producing devices that may go off during the meeting. That you take any secondary conversations outside. If you would like to speak today we request you complete a blue card. You do not have to. Commissioner buell would be home any minutes for each how many people you want to testify on one thing or another just to get an idea i think will suffer 3 min. Okay. So as you heard, each person walked 3 min. On each item to spe
She said, i would read that book. She said thats not the right this book. We sat and batted it around. Theres something about this phrase. Worried because it would come across as judgmental in almost bitterly ironic. That wasnt the intention. Meaning ch simpler which comes down to and this is what i got comfortable with the book f you read and you get to know the people inside the book and hear their stories, youll have a better if you save this ubiquitous phrase, thank you for your service. Clearer idea of who youre thanking and what for. E thanking them that seemed to be a good title at some point. How many of the people youre book were in the first book about iraq, the good soldiers. The others amed, were kind of circling around the edges and not named. These are all people i have gotten to know during the reporting of the first book, baghdad, during the surge. Infantry Army Battalion if i could fill it in quickly. These guys went to the part of the world called the surge. Months in
I said, i would read that book. She said, that is really not the right title for this book. We sat and batted it around. There is something about this phrase. I was worried it would come across as judgmental in some way or people would see it as almost bitterly ironic and that was not the intention. It is a much simpler meaning, which comes down to, this is what i got comfortable with finally, if you read the book and get to know the people inside the book, you will have a better sense. If you say this ubiquitous you will have a much clearer idea of what you are thanking them for. How many of the people you are writing about in this book were in the first book about iraq, the good soldiers . The othersnamed and were circling around the edges, not named. These were people i had gotten to know during the reporting of the first book, which was in baghdad during the surge. The Army Infantry battalion. Into the part of the war called the search. Surge. They were there for 15 months in a lou
Baghdad and i was with them to write the first book. Not about me, but to write about them. I was with them when bad things happened. We stayed in touch and they became the second the people in the new book. Where was their base . Kansas. Think of the moment. I know it seems like history at this point. I guess it is history. The war had been through several versions at that point. You know, the common perception was the thing was all but lost. It was inching up to what i have described as the tragic moment of the war. Into that moment went to this battalion, 800 guys, most deploying for the first time, young and full of a young mens invincibility. Off they went. They had a tough time. What was the average age . 19, 20. Most had not been out of the country before, much less deployed into a war before. I remember they were remarkable. If they were not filled with the perfect version of what we call patriotism, they had a sense of a Large Mission in mind. They were going to win this thing