of cruelty, in addition to the loss they have to live with for the rest of their lives. it s unlike just about anything we ve ever seen in the wake of any other such tragedy, never mind accountability. in many points since may 4th, these families haven t even gotten the simplest answers from anyone involved in what was by any measure, in almost every imaginable way a colossal failure. and that cruelty of officials playing keepaway with the truth, it continues. at a meeting today of the texas public safety commission, public safety director steve mcgraw was supposed to have a report on uvalde, containing updated timeline and other new information. instead, he provided neither. with the families of the murdered victims in the room, he did not deliver a director s report. he failed to deliver on that promise and family members in the audience responded. you have disgraced the state, your position, and the people. the officers are still under your position. maldonado, bettancou
that cruelty of officials playing keep away with the truth continues. at a meeting today at the texas public safety commission, the steve mcgraw was supposed to deliver what they thought was a directors report on uvalde, containing updated timeline on other new information. instead, he provided neither. with the families of murdered victims in the room, he did not deliver it directly support. he failed to deliver on that promise, and family members in the audience response. you have disgraced the state, your position and the people. the officers are still under your supervision. maldonado have been proven to be culpable, and with new information chopping about weekly, we know that there will be others. well, steve, the time is now. if you are a man of your word, you resign. we are not waiting any longer. that spread across, who joins us shortly. he is the guardian of jose garcia, ten-year-old boy who was murdered while nearly 400 members of law enforcement, including
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It just fell together as i went along. I think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. And i knew i didnt want to be someone who went from one war to the next and be kind of a war groupie, because i couldnt make a life. I wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. And at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasnt sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that, but when i went back to vietnam in 1989, it was the first time and i traveled with a small group from hanoi all the way through the country, and i was in saigon and did the memory walk of the places i had lived. And i realized, there was a moment when it just hit me. I thought of my daughter who was then 8. And i wanted to go home. And i miss the life that i had created. And i think that was when i really realized that i had, i had done that, that i had somehow chosen or life had chosen me. I didnt want to