should celebrate and have fun and enjoy our lives. jenna: fashion isn t just fun, it is big business for the big apple. fashion week brings more than a half a billion dollars in direct visitor spending according to the new york city economic development corporation. that is would worth more than 850 million bucks in economic impact every year in new york city alone. what happens on a new york city runway like this will affect retail from coast to case coast in fact one out of our fobs in our country is supported by the retail industry. whether you re into it or not, fashion matters. the retail industry contributes approximately $2.5 trillion to our economy every year. what is the key to success in such a competitive space? it isn t just about having a fashion show or having dresses on the runway. it is also having the right dresses for the person, let s face it, all women at any age want to feel and look younger.
national security forces. so we are engaged with the afghan national security forces, still engaged with the enemy but still getting gear and equipment back to the united states. i tell you, it s a daunting task. all of these marines out here really stepped up and made this happen. still holding your edge knowing there is an active enemy out there, but yet you re closing down bases and you re closing down fobs and 33,000 pieces of equipment that we sent home alone, it s an astronomical amount of work and i m really proud of what the marines were able to do, mainly with their mindset and delegation. colonel sparky wentforth, thank you for taking the time to talk with us, to all of the marines there, safe home. it is friday so we are going to have fun with today s tweet of the day. jimmy fallon tweet out this link. music room, robin thicke singing blurred lines using grade school
the joint chiefs of staff has prepared you in a way that always sort of takes my breath away every time i see you. one of the great honors of my life has been to visit many of you when you were serving abroad, from the mountain tops of remote fobs above the valley, watching six of you sit up on a mountain top and get shot at every single night, and day in and day out. to a striker brigade watching you wipe off the blood from a wounded comrade, and go back out again and again and again. i m not just saying this, folks, you are amazing. you are an amazing, amazing generation.
incredible pride. the joint chiefs of staff has prepared you in a way that always sort of takes my breath away every time i see you. one of the great honors of my life has been to visit many of you when you were serving abroad, from the mountain tops of remote fobs above the valley, watching six of you sit up on a mountain top and get shot at every single night, and day in and day out. to a striker brigade watching you wipe off the blood from a wounded comrade, and go back out again and again and again. i m not just saying this, folks, you are amazing. you are an amazing, amazing
you re taking to relatively safe fobs. you re not going to be taken where i was. gold top if someone like me had been elected to congress or if we had people like pat murphy who actually served on these small bases, they d understand what it is for soldiers to go through war. i can give you a prime example. on april 28th, which is what i call my alive day, i got surrounded by 45 members of the taliban with 14 of my fellow army brothers and we fought our way out of an ambush. we ran out of grenades that day and i put in for a request. and that quest came on november 309 as illustrated in my book. wow. in another issue that you talked about very compellingly in your book is the difficulty to reacla mating to civilian life and we actually have a lot of people coming home now and what advice would you give to them and their