He was found to have this exceptional knowledge of all of the battles that they were studying in military art. And was soon conducting extra instruction sections for all the upperclassmen who had commended there. As a fall out of that it was that the word got to some of the faculty and he actually i dont know that much more about it that he actually ended up lecturing the faculty at least on one occasion. So sandy graduated in 1968. Right into the vietnam war. He is reminded of his tour in vietnam every time he goes through Airport Security and they detect all of the metal that is left in him. And sandy we wont tell the whole story behind this acquitted himself extremely well in vietnam and i think you will notice in his lapel he wears the silver start which he earned during that tour. After he was medically retired and he is the junior a junior man in the room he likes to say captain u. S. Army retired and he began to pursue to include writing as one of his most prolific talent i thin
Im excited to be here on the 150th anniversary of the date godfrey weitzal occupy the house. People are surprised, they have not heard of him before. Over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when he walked out of here when you walk out of here. I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What an understatement that is to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive ben morris and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather was born in the United States in ohio. His parents were immigrants. His parents died at a young age when george was 18 months old. Im a blood wetiitzel. We have weitzels in the Confederate White House. We have some weitzels here today. Probab
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Well answer the age old question, what does the fox say . And well answer the question how long will it be before you get that song out of your head. Two to three days. Sunday. Exactly. Well get to that later on. Well get right to todays top story. Theres controversy around the Nobel Peace Prize being o warded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and not to Malala Yousafzai. Andrea mitchell has more on that. Good morning to you. Good morning. It is surprising and controversial. It effects politics and the concern that she was too young to be awarded the most prestigious prize. She might win it in the future. It set off anger and disappointment. She has made a profound difference for women living under the brutally of
Between the u. S. And iran fail over nuclear weapons. Overall, a busy week over earnings and yellens confirmation hearings later in the week. The markets potentially taking a breather after the dow hit a new high friday, both it and the s p closed down a fifth consecutive week of gains. Volatile after Irans Nuclear program stumbled. Amazon strikes deal with the u. S. Postal service to deliver some packages on sunday, while the chinese rival ali baba wraps up 3 billion in one day. Transocean has a proxy battle. Well talk about that. We begin with the dow coming off another record high t. Blue chips up 4. 5 , marking five consecutive weengs of gains. Following one of the papers today, the front of the journal arguing the Retail Investor is somehow back. Stocks regain broad appeal, mom and pop, are they finding the markets again . My favorite subhead on that is, if you go on the web, you will see, its bad. I love it. It says, they used cause for concern in the newspaper version, but in th
Thanks. On rumblings of a deal capitol hill did wonders for wall street today. The dow jones jumped 205 points before the closing bell to close above the 15,000 mark. The nasdaq composite rose 45 points and the s p 500 saw a surge of more than 1 finishing for points below its alltime high. Republican majorities have raised the debt ceiling 40 times, democrats, 24 times. You can see more debt ceiling history on our website, wbal tv. Com and click on national news. Negotiating is on the horizon in baltimore. The port is closed for business as longshoremen are on strike. After working without a contract for three years they are demanding change. In dundalk andve has the latest for us. Terminals have been quiet all day. Close for business as you mentioned. There is no official estimate but workers estimate the port is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars each day. Each day they are closed. 1300 port workers took to the picket line wednesday after stalled contract negotiations trade we a