Social service, criminal justice, health care. All these systems have to be held accountable to ensuring equity. Even to that extent, we have to have conversations about how we recognize injustice. I would like to add the name of Tanisha Anderson to the list of those killed at the hands of police. We mention, tamir rice, eric gardner, michael brown, and we have to uplift the name of women who have experienced disproportionate abuse or had died at the hands of police. The conversation has to happen every day in every setting in order for us to move past as a move past hour past as a country and our present. I have heard people say we just have to get over it. But we have iterations of disproportionally and racism today. These are conversations that have to happen. We all have to be collectively a part of that. In the same way that we have many people of various races and ethnicities and ages uplifting the black lives matter movement. You will see black and white people and latino people
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Friend of the world war ii veteran service. This memorial is a Beautiful Day in washington, d. C. And we are glad to have everyone here today. My jname is jim fischer and i a the director of events. On this veterans day day we want to thank and honor all of the veterans especially the world war ii. It is my privilege to intr de e deuce introduce the master of sar ceremonies. Ken has more than 20 years of experience as a constructional working working on monuments and benefits. Earthquake damage, the National Martin Luther King memorial and others. His knowledge of this site is n invaluable in hope helping effort to join efforts to upkeep the memory. It is my honor to introduce kenneth terry. [ applause ] good morning. It is my great honor to be your master of ceremonies as we remember all of the veterans who have served our great country. To all of the veterans and Service Members past and present, we owe gratitude for their service. I am pleased to introduce the official party for the
At mondays veterans day day ceremony at Arlington National cemetery president obama talked about ending the war. Here is a little of what he had. On tour after tour in iraq and afghanistan. This generation, the 911 generation has met ever mission and because of their service the core of al qaeda is on the path to defeat and our homeland is safer. There are many people like the soontobe veteran i met a while ago. Hogan survived to iraq twice and survived three separate ied explosions and deployed again to afgh afgh afghanistan once she was well. She wears the combat action badge and is xht committed to helping others recover from the trial of war. Helping the truth is what she said all about. My fellow americans, that is what we should boo be all about. Soon one of the first marines to arrive in afghanistan 12 years ago, daniel yu, will lead the last trip that is set to deploy and more troops will come home. This winter the troop levels in afghanistan are down to 34,000 and by this Time
In terms of the physical place to live, she said in the famous interview with theodore white, the camelot interview the week after the assassination said she wanted to live with my children in the places i lived with jack. Georgetown and on the cape. She could have gone to the cape. She went to georgetown. Avril larriman loaned his home and she bought a home across the street. It was inundated with tourist buses, tourists, photographers, peeping into her windows and coming up on the porch. She couldnt bear it. After a relative few months, she took off for new york and spent the rest of her time there. Did mrs. Kennedy have to testify for the Warren Commission . She did. She did. June of 1964, earl warren and one or two others came to her parlor in georgetown and asked her about the motorcade. It was brief, i think it was less than a half an hour, but she did have to testify. Thats on the record. Some of her physical description was wounding and kept for sometime because it was too grap