also hear with us today is lauren mathews, the granddaughter of a battle of the bulge veteran who has since passed away. his name was master sergeant roddy edmonds. like so many of our veterans, roddy never talked about the r war. lauren never knew her grandfather s story until she embarked upon a school project about ten years ago. roddy was in the 422nd regiment, which was overwhelmed when the nazis launched their surprise assault. he and his men fought for three treacherous days before being taken as prisoners of war. after they arrived at a prison camp, the german commander sent an order over the loud speaker, the jewish american soldiers were all told to step out of line during roll call the next day. knowing the terrible fate that
lauren matthews. the granddaughter of oh veteran who passed away. roddy never talked about the war, lauren never knew her grandfather s story until she did a school project 10 years ago. roddy was in the 422nd regiment which was overwhelmed when the nazis launched their surprise assault. he and his men fought for three treacherous days before being taken as prisoners of war. after they arrived at a prison camp, the german commander sent an order over the loudspeaker, the jewish american soldiers were all told to step out of line during roll call the next day. knowing the terrible fate that would come to his jewish comrades, roddy immediately said we re not doing that.
although with us is laurel matthews, a granddaughter of a battle of the bulge veteran who has since passed away, master sergeant evans. like so many of our veterans, he never talked about the war. laura never knew her grandfather s story until she embarked on a school project about ten years ago. rody was in the 422nd regimen, which was overwhelmed when the nazis launched their surprise assault. he and his men fought for three treacherous days before being taken as prisoners of war. after they arrived at a prison camp, the german commander said over the loud speaker, the jewish american soldiers were all told to step out of line during roll call the next day.
devastating terror attacks on friday leaving 38 dead at a tunisia beach resort and 30 dead at the kuwaitty mosque. this came as isis militants launch a surprise assault on syria killing hundreds of civilians months after kurdish fighters won back the city. is the strategy still working? joining me now is democratic u.s. senator chris murphy member of foreign relations committee and appropriations committee. he also just joined the board at west point. thanks for having me. listen is u.s. you hear about these isis attack is the united states at risk for that type of attack we saw this past week? i mean you know what we hear from authorities in the intelligence community and that s a standard line. they say we have no evidence that there are any credible threats against the united states from isis. but i imagine that that s what the tunisian authorities would
something of a surprise assault. isis had already taken over the north over the weekend, but no one was anticipating this quick of an advance towards the east. that being said, other top commanders in ramadi have been for weeks now begging the iraqi government for reinforcements asking for iraqi air strikes, asking for coalition air strikes because they knew that isis had ramadi in its sights. this is a city they ve been trying to capture for months now. this most recent assault has sent thousands of refugees fleeing. we saw a number of them at a bridge that connects anbar province to the province of baghdad. people are not allowed to cross this bridge by car. they were forced to go across either on foot if they could, many of them seeming exhausted or unable to walk across piling into these metal carts. children elderly. one older woman we spoke to