Im the chair of the special Investigative Committee and thanks for joining us for this very special book for him. What i want to do now is turn this over. As you know the American Veteran centers presenting the Andrew Goodpaster award and i want to turn it over to jim roberts. [applause] thank you very much tom peter. And officers of the army and navy club thank you for being our partners for this evenings lecture. Ladies and gentlemen on behalf of my colleagues at the American Studies Center i welcome you to the armynavy club for the presentation of the eighth annual Andrew Goodpaster award named after he read rate american and presented to another Great American Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters retired. Before her proceed further i would like to say that we are honored by the presence of Andrew Goodpasters granddaughter and her husband matt. Would you please stand. [applause] is great to have representation as we have always had from the goodpaster family here. I would also like to th
What i want to do now is turn this over. As you know were the American Veteran center is presenting the Andrew Goodpasture award and i want to turn this over to the president of the American Veterans center. Jim . [applause] thank you very much, tom. Peter. And officers of the army and navy club, thank you for being our partners for this evenings lecture. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of my colleagues at the American Study Center i welcome you to the Army Navy Club for the presentation of the eight annual andrew j. Goodpasture award named after a Great American and presented to another Great American Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters United States army retired. Id like to say we are honored by the presence of general goodpastures granddaughter and her husband, matt. Would you please stand. [applause] great to have representation as we have always had from the goodpasture family here. I would also like to thank the Bradley Foundation for underwriting the goodpasture award. Diane, would
Area, of course, can smell that fire. Were going to go now to our colleague laura anthony, shes been covering the silverado resort community where some homes are saved and many others are not. Reporter right, reggie. I would hate to guess at this point how many homes have been lost in here, but its safe to say i would say dozens. Look at this one behind me here, were on Stony Mountain circle, just one of many unfortunately that are in his condition, still smoldering. Every so often, jacob can show us in the distance, see a plume of black smoke. And, unfortunately, were realizing that thats probably another home thats going up as we speak. There are firefighters in here, but it seems theyre pretty much powerless to save the homes that are already burning. And theyre really just focusing on trying to save the houses next to them here on Stony Mountain circle. We can show you this house right next to that one that was burned to the ground is still standing. We can only speculate it looks