Once in a while. R] [inaudible] okay. Testing, one, two. And he has written several wonderful books. In harms way about the singing of the indianapolis. Horse soldiers, about the first batch of american troops who went into afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. Soon to be a Motion Picture which we might talk about a little later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company which is about a subject thats been part of my life as well, the vietnam war. So im delighted to have a conversation about that and also about writing tonight. So doug, why dont we start, just sort of with how this idea sort of washed over you in the first place, for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you everyone for being here this evening. The idea for the the odyssey of echo company came to me in afghanistan, which would have been our most recent foray into counterinsurgency in the 21st century with vietnam obviously in thevi 20th. I was standing in a a helicopter trying to go to the Pakistani Bo
And bob kelly, i hope you had a nice birthday, yesterday. Yes, yesterday was my birthday im still partying with a few of my friends, good morning, from newark, grain on main, check this out we are here at grain craft bar and kitchen where it is dog friendly. Say hi to my friend manny. Hi there, manny, he is smelling that scrapple, scrapple cheese stake that i had a few moments ago. We will have some fun all morning long from that great spot on the campus blue hen country lets check jam cams heading out the front doors this morning. Disabled on the roosevelt boulevard southbound on the ramp to broad street as we go to i95 right at girard, everything is all wet, and slowry, and, 2 feet of snow, so that is one way to lot ate. Tacony palmyra bridge had an opening at 4 45, a little bit slow in both, directions. Back here live out front with the fire pit, how cool is this , gang . You got to love it. No matter how cold, they said folks like to come out, gather around the fire pit. We are rig
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Proabortion city. But theres a big prolife community in and around San Francisco. And they are going to be getting more vocal as time goes on. This was on a public street. Is there any indication there was a crime committed . Reporter no. They got in, they got out, they blocked the street. But they did it real fast and you know, like it or not, its called the first amendment. By the way, at 6 00, we are going to ask the mayor and get his opinion on it, as well. So stay tuned. Back to you. Thank you. Our other big story tonight, President Trump says he will ban transgender people from serving in any capacity in the u. S. Armed forces. He made the announcement this morning on twitter after what he called a consultation with generals and military experts. These are not exact numbers. But a rand study finds that there are between 1300 and about 6600 Transgender Service members in the active duty military. In the reserves, between 800 and 4200 members. Thats out of a total of 1. 3 million s
Private property, litter and calling the truck and eyesore. The city sided with casa real and told nelly she needed to move. Thats when the general public took a stand on social media against casa real. Yes, i had a facebook review and google review of one star and mentioned they are bullies. I thought it was terrible and disgusting. Reporter in a matter of hours, casa reals social media reviews went from all five stars to a series of one star reviews. Callahan says they never meant to hurt her business or for things to go this far. So they are offering her space on their land. Thats the ultimate goal is to is to peacefully coexist like we have for years. Reporter now, this sounds like a nice compromise. Of course, if nelly accepts. But theres one more wrinkle. The city says it still has to make sure that no one is violating traffic laws. So its planning on putting up no parking signs along vineyard avenue tomorrow where nelly used to park. So the problem may still exist. Veronica . Al