Frank and julie have the night off. We have developing news out of Northern Illinois where at least one person is dead after a tornado touched down and ripped through the community of fairdeal about 30 miles west of chicago. At least 700 people were injured and Officials Say most if not all of the buildings have been damaged or destroyed. In kansas, that same storm system brought pounding hail the size of tennis balls. You can see it. It was Strong Enough to crack the windshield of this car. Take a look at the damage left behind in a living room that was struck by lightning. This home is in michigan. The People Living here were in a the different room at the time the lightning hit. Chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking the conditions in the midwest. Hes in our Weather Center now with the details, bill. Reporter its that time of year. Theyre getting hit hard and theyre going to get hit hard again tomorrow. Well talk about that. But lets reconstruct what happened here. Look at the
The other thing was that they took all of their resources and put them into initial claims. And i focused on the decision review officer as a key point, person on these Regional Offices. Theyve taken them out of their regular job to the detriment of the appeals process because now theyre not doing the certifications that are necessary to take a veterans appeal from the Regional Office to the board of veterans appeals and there in limbo oftentimes for many years now which is shortcircuiting whole situation. More importantly whats concerning to me at least talking to our service reps in the field is its like the va is considering as the enemy. Many Regional Offices are people are not allowed to talk to anybody. You have an to anybody. Youre issuing acclaimed its comeback, you can talk to anybody. You just have to take it deal with it, today. I retired in 2002 until i got this job in 2005. I worked three years as a service rep in manhattan and the Regional Office. If i had an issue on a c
Thank you very much. It is a pleasure and honor to be here and share the stage with these wonderful scholars. Im grateful to Patrick Schroeder to having included me. So you have the surrender scene and i would like to turn to the surrender aftermath and the political debates spawned by appomattox and ill argue that lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender with their oesh as pir own aspirations and agendas and dreams and the dream in the eyes of africanamericans and soldiers and former slaves and lees surrender was a freedom day, the day that the moment the moment that the promise of emancipation
Courthouse civil park. And Liz Ben Varon talks about the ending of the appomattox civil war. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you. Thank you very much. It is a pleasure and honor to be here and share the stage with these wonderful scholars. Im grateful to Patrick Schroeder to having included me. So you have the surrender scene and i would like to turn to the surrender aftermath and the political debates spawned by appomattox and ill argue that lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender with their oesh as pir own aspirations and agendas and dreams and the dream in the eyes of africanamericans and so
Lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender with their oesh as pir own aspirations and agendas and dreams and the dream in the eyes of africanamericans and soldiers and former slaves and lees surrender was a freedom day, the day that the moment the moment that the promise of emancipation was finally fulfilled. Lee vision of an honorable peace emphasized confederate precisiveness and the vindication, africanamerican would associate it with liberation. So ill talk about the three visions of the peace. And lets start first with the lee and the confederates. Lee and the men saw that even as the surrend