Our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut badge is in the low 200. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man who has completed his training and is ready to be considered a badge holder and of the fraternity and sorority, brotherhood or fellowship of tomb guard. We are a 501 c 3 organization and part of our bylaws is that we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, sort of a sweeping generalization, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talked to School Groups and it is appalling how little they know of our history. It is not their fault. We have failed them because we have allowed all of this testing and teaching to the test and not put history on the test. I will get off my soapbox. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups pro bono. This is my 81st speech this year. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is
You are still figuring out what needs to be done and you are needing an assistant. Men have to be lead parents or fully equal coparents. For our complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. We have more on the u. S. Chamber of commerces summit on Job Opportunities for veterans. Up next, former first lady laura bush. She specifically focuses on Military Spouses and the challenges they face. Attendees also hear from congressional medal of honor recipient dakota meyer, labor secretary tom perez and joint chiefs of staff vice chair admiral james winfield. This is just under two hours. Good morning, im the executive director of the institute for military families and i would like to welcome my friend mark here from deloitte and ill i guess ill say first its humbling and honestly intimidating to follow president bush but is to spend just ten minutes talking about the collective and collaborative action. A recap of where weve been relative to vets em ploimt and also what may lie ahead. Challenge chal
M stephanie woods. Adam and i m adam sexton. Wmur s Kristen Carosa joins us now live from the scene of the crash on lake avenue with the latest on the investigation. Kristen this area behind me was closed for several hours as police continued their investigation. The scene has been cleared and flowers have been left behind. People in this neighborhood are left wondering how this crash happened. This was the scene early sunday killing one person. I was coming down the alley way and my buddy said you gotta help me. Kristen larry powell and his friend tried to help the people weren t far behind. They had the jaws of life, and they had to pry the doors open. I knew right then they were going to be hurting. Kristen the crash happened around 4 00 a. M. Involving a honda pilot and a volkswagon s. U. V. The driver of the volkswagon, 31yearold alexander burke, is now in custody facing a felony charge. Police say he was driving while intoxicated. Upon arrival, we saw two vehicles, extensive dama
Difference. We dont have any of those things anymore. None of the happens today and i think that is one of the problems. Several times with a state crisis of how he would act in the senate we would have a joint Conference Meeting of republicans and democrats in the Old Senate Chamber and sometimes it was to have a cia briefing, sometimes to see if we could find a way of how to proceed with the impeachment trial. Every time we had those joint meetings, marvelous things happen to. We heard each other out and we moved forward to. Afterwards airs on book tv every saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous afterwards programs on our website, book tv. Org. Book tv is on location at the university of wisconsin in madison and we are talking with professors who are also authors. We are pleased to be joining out by a emeritus professor, jerry apps, his book is called limping through life a farm boys polio memoir. What is polio . Guest its not something w
And dont you think this is an unforeseen consequence of congress interjecting itself into the markets . Senator, thank you. I would say we are seeing what ducks unlimited and others are calling a crisis in the prairies. We certainly, if you think about the states of north dakota and south dakota, which are really the heart of water fowl production for the United States of america, we have Energy Development in the balken oil fields squeezing from the west and we have Agricultural Development squeezing from the east, and so there is no doubt that we are seeing widespread and unprecedented conversion of habitat that is and if i can interject, because that clock is ticking. Part of that reduction in habitat is putting more of the land into corn to to respond to this Public Policy decision that the federal government has made. That is a fact, is it not . Certainly a part of the demand is related to use for ethanol. But the market is a Global Market for corn and soybean, and the Global Mark