the negativity or anything i hear coming my way. it s hilarious to me because it s the american dream. ten years ago when balkovec was struggle you to get a job in baseball, her sister suggested she change her name from rachel to ray on her resume. she did that, and actually got some calls. she changed her name back to rachel because she realized she didn t want to work for someone who didn t want to hire women, and balcovec said great to see progress being made now. 11 women going to be in uniform. she put it so well. anyone with a pulse realizes this is a good thing and long overdue. congrats to her. absolutely. thanks, andy. nice to see you. thanks. like a plot from a film, a letter from an american g.i. is delivered to his family 76 years after it was mailed in germany. written by 22-year-old army sergeant john gonsalvez dated 1945, it was addressed to his mom and opened 76 years later by
paul, a hit for a good man who died this week, joe galloway, they were corresponded, he wrote a book called we were soldiers, a pivotal battle in vietnam. a lot of people know if the movie, mel gibson. not many know that galloway earned the braun store star for that battle caring off when did american g.i. a final salute to a great american and brave reporter. paul: all right, dan. a miss to governor kate brown and her legislature which extended a law suspending minimum proficiency requirements for kids graduating from high school there. yes, this means minimum proficiency isn t even required in reading, writing and mathematics and yet they are doing it out of concerns over racial equity. it be a better world out there in oregon if the teachers and schools were doing work to try
a brutal occupation began. the japanese, in fact, killed my grandmother, my great grand parents, but my father, his father and his youngest siblings you see my father on the right there they stayed alive x they lived in the japanese camps. in 1945 the battle of manila began, and general macarthur came in to retake the city. it was some of the heaviest fighting of world war ii. as that battle reached its peak, my father was alone with a group of children in the city, and he decided they had to make a break for the american line. he was just 12 the, his sister was only 7, so they set off running in the direction of the american front lines. one of the boys they were with just a few accept steps ahead of my father was shot dead, and my father looked up, and at the end of the road, there was an american g.i. screaming at them to run, to run, which they did. they made it across, they were hoisted up by these american g.i.s from the 37th infantry x they were saved. 1,010 american soldier
the river valley when he took second in a break dance competition though his unusual name presented some problems. mixed up this daughter of a german opera singer spent much of her childhood in nuremberg number two on today s list sandra bullock. bullock only moved to the united states when she was twelve and she s never forgotten her german roots though she s reinterpreted them for hollywood. and been for me when i m in germany i feel german. and when i m in the us i feel like an american and i kind of. will look lost her german citizenship at one point but regained it in two thousand and nine. and who would have thought this tough guy comes from the rolling hills of rhineland follett s the son of an american g.i.
it was a shyster s ploy. it was an awful idea not very start. why not a military base in the united states? why not a maximum security federal prison? and after 1 years, they ve 12 years, it seems to me the taliban and the haqqani gangsters who i know very well have done quite effectively in terms of pursuit of their war without these five and the others in guantanamo. these people have all been incarcerated since before the major push in afghanistan so you re saying what s happened with bergdahl does not change your mind one bit about releasing prisoners from gitmo? that doesn t change your mind? what do you know that a i don t know? that s just the problem, we don t know enough yet. we know he s an american g.i., and he s got to be brought home. shouldn t we stop releasing prisoners until we find out more? you know, one of the things as i ve been in combat so often with these guys in every branch of the service, one of the things they take great security