There are 50 heads of state gathered here in washington, trying to deal with the question of Nuclear Terrorism and how to secure the highly enriched. Lements around the world that is a nuclear reactors, that is in hospitals, universities, research centers. There is the possibility of dirty bombs, the possibility of terrorists getting a hold of this. That is a small part of the Nuclear Material out there. Most of the material is in the weapons programs. This gathering is not going to be dealing with weapons issues. You might recall that in the spring of 2009, president obama made an important speech in prague that called for nuclear abolition. One could say it was the high point of the obama presidency. It is what helped him get the nobel peace prize, which a lot of people have urged him to give back since then. We need nuclear abolition. He said the United States has to lead the effort. It is the only country that has ever used Nuclear Weapons and warfare against another country. That
Place in washington, d. C. Right now. State inot 50 heads of washington trying to deal with the question of the threat of Nuclear Terrorism and how to secure all the highly enriched uranium and plutonium that stretched widely around the reactors,lear hospitals, universities, concernedenters, about the threat of materials and the possibility of dirty bombs and terrorists getting a hold of it. That is a small part of Nuclear Material out there because most of the Nuclear Material is in the Weapons Program and this gathering will not deal with weapons issues. You might recall in spring of 2009, obama made a very important each in prague in which he called for nuclear abolition. Could say it was the high point of the Obama Presidency and it is what helped them get the nobel peace prize. In 2009, he said the United States has got to lead the effort. The United States is the only country that has ever used Nuclear Weapons out of warfare against another country. On the one hand, there is a ce
The tomb guard badge, which is depicted on our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge in the United States military with the exception of the astronaut a astronaut badge. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man and now in the brotherhood of fellowship of tomb guards. We have a society, we are 501c3 organization and part of the bylaws is is we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, this, sort of a sweeping generation here, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talk to School Groups, and its appalling to me how little they know. Its not their fault. We have allowed all this teaching and teaching to the test and we have not put history on the test. And i will get off my soap box. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups probono, this is my 81st speech this year. In 2015. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is over. Im speaking pretty much nonstop from the first
Test. Test. It was sitting there so long, they played out of that quarry but close but no cigar in terms of the color of the stone. So he was one of the engineers on the Washington Monument. Another little circular thing here, the guest of honor at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in 1848 was George Washington and custis, this guy who helped complete it is on his lawn. That looks like the Washington Monument. This is the grave of the first person of european descent to be buried on the property and her name is mary randolph. Randolphs were very prominent in virginia. Her father was thomas mann ran go dolph and a direct descendent of pocahontas, and she wrote a book called the virginia housewife that was the most popular cookbook and housekeeping book of the early the first half of the 19th century. Her cuss cousin was the wife of George Washington custis and she was buried there. Born april 30, 1781, and died in 1857. From his death until the union troops came a
On cspan3. Next, the president of the society of the honor guard, tomb of the unknown soldier, talks about the history of Arlington National cemetery and the tomb of the unknowns. He describes how confederate general Robert E Lees mansion became a Burial Ground during the civil war and discusses the role and creation of the tomb guard and tells stories about some of the notable people interred at Arlington National cemetery. Is a little over 90 minutes. [applause] all, thank you for the invitation and thank you, Jessica Jones were doing the legwork and getting this organized and put together. This is very much we have guys in their 90s, guys in active duty, and females in our society who have guarded the tomb because the tomb was guarded first in 1995 by corporal heather johnson, the first female to walk them at in 1995. The tomb guard badge depicted on case here,d in this this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut is in the low 200