The park estimates there are about 3 million visitors here each year. More than 50,000 names are etched in the granite wall including eight women. Announcer next, a look at food a ballot availability in the u. S. Host hi, everyone. We are going to get started. If you have a cell phone on, please turn it off. Thank you. As i think you are all aware this is one of our keynote talks, entitled, the human rights of food. We have an amazing speaker with us today, molly anderson. She is currently at the college of the atlantic. She teaches about hunger, sued security, Food Sovereignty system dynamics, Food Security, Food Sovereignty system dynamics, sustainability metrics, and how industrialized countries will move to a postpetroleum food system. She is part of an International Panel of experts on the food system. There is a film that was prepared for this conference that we will be showing tomorrow as part of the keynote, and hopefully be putting it online for all of you. We are also joined
Reports of prizewinning author lawrence wright, and your phone calls. Near the end of june, watch for the annual roosevelt reading festival could reading vessel. Then author interviews and panel discussions. At the beginning of september were live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival, celebrating its 15th year. Thats just a few of the events this summer on cspan2s book tv. President obama says this is the first memorial day since the end of military operations in afghanistan and the first memorial day since 9 11 that the u. S. Is not involved in a major ground war. The ceremony at Arlington National ceremony is 50 minutes. Present arms. [starspangled banner] order arms. Present arms. [drum roll] [taps] order arms. Ladies and gentlemen the wreath ceremony is complete. The Memorial Day Service will begin shortly. Please take your seats. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please stand and remain standing. The command chaplain, joint force headquarters, and the
The opportunity to stay here, i think it is important for hawaii for seniority, and for this place, for the most part it works on seniority. Host you talked about serving on the newspaper and being a Political Science major. What about your kids, what are they interested in, and what would you like to the them do . Rep. Mark takai i would like to see them not run for politics. I tell young people to get a life, raising emily, and then maybe if you years down the road come back and possibly run for office, so i hope they do not have aspirations to follow me right out of college, because it was tough. Post but then you do not have a chance to meet george takai. Rep. Mark takai we met through tammy duckworth. It was duckworth, honda, and another supporting tokai, and mark takano and jerry endorse me in the primary, so the headline read takai and tokano endorse tokai. All three of us get confused. We have the pleasure now of calling ourselves friends, and, in fact, i am going to see george
Host were you born in your district . Rep. Mike bost yes, born and raised. I was driving for the Family Trucking business and i got hit on a motorcycle by a drunk driver. It was in october and i got hit hard. I ended up with just a slightly twisted ankle. I was at home, not in the truck, when the iran hostage situation happened. At 18 years old, you think you can change everything. I waited up and the next thing i knew i woke up in marine corps boot camp and i was serving. Host so it was the iran hostage situation that motivated you . Rep. Mike bost maybe that is why i run into buildings other people run out of. Host looking back to that incident and where we are with iran now, what are your feelings . Rep. Mike bost i am not a big fan of what the president is trying to do as far as his negotiation with iran. They have a history. The history that we have had to deal with. We want to be very careful. I want to make sure that whatever we do we make sure that they dont have a nuclear weap
Order arms. Present arms. [drum roll] [taps] order arms. Ladies and gentlemen the ring ceremony is only great wrceremony this morning will take place. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen please stand and remain standing. The command chaplain, joined force headquarters, and the United States Army Military district of washington. Major general, jeffrey s buchanan, commanding general united dates army, military district of washington. Mr. Patrick callahan, executive director, Army Military cemeteries program. General martin id. See chairman, joint chiefs of staff. Dempsey, chairman, joint chiefs of staff. The honorable ashton carter, secretary. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the chaplain. I invite you all to pray with me. Almighty god, we gather today across america, very mindful of the cost paid for the freedom we enjoy. We gather on these Hallowed Grounds particularly to remember and to honor, with singular de