Elizabeth senate. Editor of an out annotated edition of grants memoir. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this event took place on line. Good evening. On behalf of the grand Monument Association, welcome to the special Online Program to mark president you leases as grants 119th birthday. By way of introduction, a grand Monument Association or gia may is a nonprofit that was organized during the 1990s as the successor to the organization of the same name and originally built and administered grants tomb in new york city until it was transferred to the National Park service. The gm a is that it catered to the preservation of which is the largest mausoleum in the hemisphere. An important part of our mission is to foster education about the life and legacy of general grant principal author of Union Victory during the civil war, and our nations 18th president. In recent years, we revived the gm aids tradition dating back to the 19th century to commemorate grants birthday with a dinner in new
1990s as a successor to the organization of the same name that originally built and administered grants tomb in new york city until it was transferred to the National Park service. The gma is dedicated to the preservation of grants tomb, the largest monument in the western hemisphere. Grant, the principal author of Union Victory in the civil war, and our nations 18th president. We revived the gma tradition to commemorate grants birthday with a dinner in new york city. The program each year has been an educational one, highlighted by a hollow a colloquy in which general David Petraeus interviews a historian about different aspects of grants story. Another celebration is the commemoration of grants birthday at his tomb. Because of the pandemic, we are advanceriencing, both if vince have been canceled, but we thought it was important to celebrate grants birthday. It also means we can reach a great many people who otherwise would not have been able to make it to dinner in new york. For tho
Severe weather. Thats right. And the threat has forced orie and georgetown officials to Cancel School tomorrow. Chem johnchief meteorologist john farley has more. Tracking an active storm system out there tonight. It will be in here between 7 00 a. M. And 2 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Damaging winds, the most likely scenario, but this could touch off tornadoes. Let me show you where it is. We go down here to right along the gulf coast. Very active just north of pensacola. This thing has touched off lot of severe thunderstorms. I show you whats going on right now, the latest. Everything in the yellow boxes, that is watch out things could get messy. The orange boxes here, these are severe thunderstorms right here. If there were red boxes, there would be tornadoes. There are none right now. This is a system moving quickly in our direction. So tomorrow, basically, everywhere in yellow here that goes from the upstate all the way to the coast, we could see now, a lot of people have been saying exactl
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