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Shining star braving the elements of earth, wind and fire. Those stories coming up right now. The california endowment, help happens in neighborhoods. Learn more. And by contributions to your pbs station, from viewers like you. Thank you. The overwhelming majority of physical and emotional cost of war is the subject of ron capps new memoir seriously not all right five wars in ten years. Takes into the reality of the war crimes and the atrocity. Aer is military Intelligence Officer and a Foreign Service officer for the u. S. Department of state and the combat veteran of afghanistan. Served for 25 years. Now the found ore it have veteran riding project. My please to have you on the program. Thank you. I want to start reading something you write in the text. Because i think it will conte contextualize our conversation. As the glove protected a hot hand, riding along allows me to hold onto the memory just enough to shape it. Allows me to distance myself from it. To write my out of it, to w
The fall was a half century ago which i just realized that a few days ago. Were closer to 2060 than the 1960s, but were still talking about the 1960s. Last week, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Fransisco, which is where i live, but the first four chapters of the book take place in and around cambridge, and then after that, the action shifts out to San Fransisco around 65 when everyone came to San Fransisco with or without flowers in their hair, and the cementer of the psychedelic cycle shifted from boston to baghdad by the bay as my old colleague at the bay usedded to our city, but before i get to the book, i wanted to start out by talking just addressing a rumor already going around about the book. I dont know who started the rumor, but someone started says theres on page 108, theres 250 micrograms of lst sprayed on the upper left hand corner. [laughter] now, i want to say unequivocally that that is not true. As a matter of fact, i tore off the corner of that page an hour ago,
Millions of americans. When she said, i pray for the president. I pray for the she may pray but she prays for the opposite. This can be and this must be a time of reconciliation. Adam schiff is a vicious, horrible person. And renewal for america. Say hello to the people of utah, and tell them, im sorry about mitt romney. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. I believe any person who asks for forgiveness has to be prepared to give it. So there we see wow. Donald trump painting William Jefferson clinton in shades of humility, shades of dignity, and well, shades of humanity pip looking preside humanity. Looking president ial. A master class difference between the difference of humility and hubris. Between just class and someone who is classless. It was remarkable. It was a remarkable day yesterday. It was donald trump, donald trump put on a freak show yesterday. Ah. And showed exactly why this race will always be close, even to the end. When things are going well
You know, the first line of your biography is not something you did but who you are. Right. The first africanamerican president. Right. And yet, youre half white. You were raised by three white people, your mother and your two grandparents. And an indonesian. And an indonesian. Are you comfortable with this characterization . I am. I write about this in my first book. Fairly early on i came to the realization, maybe as a young adult, that the essence of the africanamerican experience is were a hybrid people. And because the concept of race in america is not just genetic. Otherwise, the one drop rule wouldnt have made sense. Its cultural. Its this notion of a people who look different than the mainstream suffering discrimination and for many decades terrible oppression, but somehow being able to make out of that a music and a language and a faith and a patriotism and a belief in this project we call america that is unique. And so for me to say im africanamerican doesnt preclude, you kno