President bush at the Invictus Games where it was clear how committed he is to this. And Burt Reynolds when is amazing and out there winning everything and i had a chance to talk to president bush about what he is doing. President obama of course is deeply committed to this. I just talked to mrs. Obama and i had a chance to see him in laos and one topic was what he thought about vietnam. And we have a lot of undetonated bombs there. He is two weeks older than me and we asked about what was going on and looked at wars differently in the 1960s and 1970s because there were drafts and we were not attacked on our turf. I said those veterans that did serve in laos and vietnam do you call them heroes . And he said absolutely call them heroes. This isnt something reserved for the more recent or voluntary wars. As my experience here, we have experienced a lot of not diminishing attention but now that the war has really came to an endish as i say there is not as much attention being given to tho
Well, also she was a very oldfashioned lady. The teacup wasnt unfamiliar to her and she knew how to do everything of that kind and in a way it created a nice transition between her and everybody because you can respect her for that but thats who she was and interest in other things, made her an interesting character and everybody was found of her. Roosevelt was bound. Right. We talked about Elanor Roosevelt was tie today navy and was so tragic about world war i that she saw soldiers bodies stacked up and was so deeply affected by this that this was a lifelong interest for elenor, first of all, i dont know that the president didnt mind her being out of washington. [laughter] she was quite controversial as you know, she took three major trips to combat zones during the war and the second one to the South Pacific and traveled for many hours in uninsulated military aircraft and shattered her eardrum and when she got to the bases, she walked 50 miles to see and shake almost every hand that
You are alive. Okay. Now what . Brad of the 238 aboard amtrak train 188 the 710 out of d. C. Seven are killed. 200 suffer some form of injury, several critical. Philadelphias mayor says it is amazing to him that the sevencar derailment wasnt much worse. He describes seeing mangled cars scattered off the rails people screaming a desperate search for survivors. To see it in the daytime is almost indescribable. I it is papeful. It is amazing and incredible that so many people walked away from the scene last night. Brad the train just pulled out of philadelphia 30th street station on the way to new york. The cub where it crashed as a 50 Miles Per Hour speed limit but the train was reportedly going more than 100 according to information gathered from the black box data recorder. The engineer already questioned by police. It seemed to go around the curve fast. Too fast for the car to stay on the track and it went flying. You could feel being in midair for a few seconds. Brad of course the nt
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