Birwood, where were standing, and mendota, on the other side of the wall. The federal government in 1934 had passed the First National housing act which will help workingclass people get home mortgages. Its part of roosevelts new deal. National housing act. Its going to create the federal Housing Administration and the homeowners loan corporation. This will help streamline loans and make it more accessible during the Great Depression for people to get a home loan. Here. Ere are some issues one of the issues is to get one of these home loans, the federal Housing Administration states that the neighborhood has to be racially homogeneous, which means that people have to be from the same racial and ethnic group. They do not believe that a neighborhood is stable if it is integrated, so they wont give loans if the neighborhood is integrated. So theres a problem this is ng to help create neighborhoods that have been integrated are going to become segregated and whole new neighborhoods are goi
Good morning. It is a pleasure and an honor to welcome all of you here for our presentation this morning by alex kershaw. My name is side bunting c y bunting. I work at the world war ii memorial and have the continuous honor and privilege of being from thatmany heroes period in our history and to thosee their families and interested in learning that andory more thoroughly making up the deficiencies, i may say, of the extent to which that history is being taught in our schools and colleges, particularly in our schools. The ignorance of the history of our country, and particularly of its military history, is being being ignored it is widely ignored and that has got to be fixed. One of the best people to fix it, of course, is our speaker this morning, alex kershaw. We feel in the 75th year of the anniversary of dday, particularly close to what we call the greatest generation. On memorial day, we honored who have paid the supreme sacrifice and all of our wars, but we have always felt a par
Please remain standing for the posting of the colors and the playing of the National Anthems of the french republic and the United States of america. [ applause ] president hollande, president obama, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. It is our privilege to welcome all the distinguished visitors joining us today. We extend a special welcome to the dday and world war ii veterans and their family members in attendance who honor us all with their presence. Today we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the dday landings which began on the morning of june 6th, 1944. Todays ceremony will honor our military men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for the liberation of europe, including among those we honor are the 9,387 of our fallen veterans inturned at this sacred ground and 1,557 missing in action endescribed on the wall of the missing. [ speaking Foreign Language ] ladies and gentlemen, please bow your heads for the invocation delivered by the ref end f. Ri
Are legally guiding bindings. They come as a living will or a power of attorney for health care about what medical procedures you might want at the end of life. That is what an advanced directive is. It helps you manage death. Ok. 1900, you just i. There was you just die. There was almost nothing a doctor could do for you. Today, many people die after a decision is made to withhold or withdraw a lifesustaining treatment. One of those is cpr, you all know what that is. Tube feeding is what we will talk about monday. Chemo, transfusions, these are the kind of things that two thirds of americans say, i am done, i dont want that anymore, then they finally die. The picture looks like this. Will fall over dead or get hit by a ups truck. The other two thirds will have to make a decision. Its these its this last third that is in particular. They need advanced directive. The Competent Group can make those decisions themselves. They are awake, they are competent and able to participate. For this
Museums gemma birnbaum. All right, it is august 2, 2008. Tommy lofton, i am here in california, the san diego area. Can you tell me your name for the camera . David david roderick. Tommy mr. Roderick, can you tell me a little bit about where you are born, where you grew up . David i was born in decatur, illinois on november 18, 1923. Decatur is located right in the central part of the state. So i am really a midwestern young man. And i had five brothers. And my mother and father died when i was quite young. And my father, matter of fact, was only 40, and my mother was 38. And nothing that was unnatural about it except that they would probably be living today, with the resources that we have in medicine. My father died even before penicillin. Died from pneumonia. My oldest brother was married and had a child. And then i had three younger brothers myself. And i was 16. And i decided that id better move out and have one less mouth to feed. And so i joined the army at 16. That was before t