Yeah. So many questions. [laughter] one more question. Ok . Is there any effort to do art programs in the field, or is it all when soldiers are returning home . Thats a great question. Can you answer that . [indiscernible] if it stung, its not done on any predictable basis. Within selected units or individuals, if you have a Behavioral Health person attached to you, it might be facilitated, but i dont think theres anything dodwise. [applause] please join me in thanking tara again. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] aside from the white house, the smithsonians portrait gallery has the nations largest collection of president ial portraits. Join us today as historian david ward gives a virtual tour of the gallerys president ial paintings, including those of andrew jackson, abraham lincoln, and harry truman. That is tonight a
Again although we are not is bad as we were yesterday which is better than the day before. The south bay can have the poorest air quality this afternoon and do not need the umbrellas and you can see how clean air is so far this morning from sutro tower the next 12 hours we are milder this morning at 38 to 55 and upper 50s to mid60s through the noon hour and increasing clouds will keep us in the lowtomid 60s this afternoon and enjoy the mild evening mid50s. And the roads this morning . Good . Bad . Ugly the we have a sigalert in dublin and gunning up the commute. We have our map and you can see as you pour in from livermore to 680 we have a sigalert westbound 580 a truck was hauling beer that slipped on to the side and injuries were involved and two lanes are shut down and c. H. P. Estimating that those lanes closed until 10 00 a. M. And i will tell you how to get around it coming up. At 6 02 developing news people are in their homes arrest the search for an armed suspect forced evacuat
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Rebecca frankel is the author of war dogs. Ms. Frankel, whats on the cover of your book . So this is a handler and his dog, and theyre doing a Training Exercise for a mission that they might have to do in afghanistan or iraq which does include a drop from a helicopter. What sparked you to write about war dogs . My job in foreign policy, weve been writing about the iraq war for as long as its been going on and i really love dogs. So as i was looking at photos coming in off the wire, i saw this one photo that sort of stood out as different in afghanistan, and it was because there were these marines and their bombsniffing dogs, and they were just hanging out, and everyone looked very happy. Theres a very strong contrast to the unfortunate photos that are more gritty and more gory. So tom suggested that we partner in [inaudible] and i did that for about four years an
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