He worked in washington, d. C. , lives in annapolis with his two dogs, and is known for his wellreceived book, intrepid sailors. That was named a notable book in 2012 by Naval Institute proceedings magazine. Lets welcome chip reid. [applause] mr. Reid thank you everybody. It is a pleasure to be back here again. Its a real honor to be here as part of the marine corps. I am both an army and marine corps veteran. I saw the light in 1982 and decided to become a man. [laughter] lion and the bay is a joint work. They approached me two years ago about taking on the manuscript which was incomplete. He had passed away prior to getting to what i call the meat of the 1814 campaign, the British Landing at benedict, maryland, the battle for fort mchenry and so on. It had incomplete accounts of joshua barneys flotilla. We will talk about that in a little bit. Most of all, what he did have, which folks in england have suddenly recognized is one of the most detailed accounts of royal Marine Operations
And cold war veteran. That about covers it all. Thats pretty cool. He has cover the wars in iraq and afghanistan, as well as baseball, International Soccer and international piracy. He worked in washington, d. C. , lives in annapolis with his two dogs, and is known for his wellreceived book, intrepid sailors. Int was named a notable book 2012 by Naval Institute proceedings magazine. Ets welcome chip reid [applause] mr. Reid thank you everybody. It is a pleasure to be back here again. Its a real honor to be here as part of the marine corps. I am both an army and marine corps veteran. The light in 1982 and decided to become a man. [laughter] lion and the bay is a joint work. They approached me two years ago about taking on the manuscript which was incomplete. He had passed away prior to getting to what i call the meat of the 1814 campaign, the British Landing at benedict, maryland, the battle for fort mchenry and so on. It had incomplete accounts of Joshua Barneys flotilla. We will talk
i wanted to get context. i saw you had your hand up again. mr. barone mentioned medicare. it reminded me of earlier this week the new york times had an expose on ron paul and his early career when he first opened up his medical practice or he refused to participate in medicare or medicaid. a lot of people, of course, you don t want to treat poor people. he treated anyone, but those people who could not pay, he accepted vegetables, a dozen eggs. i think that speaks a lot towards our ability as individuals to make our own contracts and the ability of us to take care of each other. we don t need these centralized programs like mid care and medicaid. i think when we have an abundance of them, you spoke of america s prevalence of charity and giving to things like that. we hold an extreme capacity to take care of each other on an individual smaller community basis rather than big centralized government programs. i think one of the arguments my father was making around the f
seniority within the navy he was made a commodore of this whole flow fill la. part of the navy, also separate from the navy. and on his first war job with the flow fill tilla. he ran into superior british ships who chased him up the patuxent river. he fought battles. at one point bottled up in saint leonard s creek and was able to fight his way out but he couldn t find his way into the bay. forced to come further and further up river. british following him, forces building until the point that he got so far up river he could not get any further up river and it was apparent that british could capture his ships. so he was ordered by the secretary of the navy to abandon his ships, and when the british tried to take them to set them on fire he exploded them with gun powder, which he did effectively, and at this point we are now where the british guide came up river, that they can see the mast of barney s flotilla and soon afterwards saw the ships on fire and heard the explosions
three hours. we ve seen pockets of yellow and orange. those are the areas of the heaviest rains that have been coming through. also thunder and lightning over the eastern part of the chesapeake bay. and on the eastern shore of the chesapeake bay they are geing heavy downpours right now. now the radar locally is showing a few pockets of moderate to heavy rain in fairfax county and montgomery county as well as ince william. another pocket of very heavy rain in southern prince william. all of these are heading off to the north. one band of very heavy rain moving off to the north and northeast, and will be sweeping across the western part of the eastern shore here over the next half hour, or so. when you see the areas of lighter green or blue where it s not raining quite as hard, another pocket of very heavy rain is about to come into southern maryland. they ve already had over four inches of rain. all these counties in red reporting flooding. water over roads in many locations,