and calling in receipt. i said i was on the wrong side. i said how could this be good for you i m on the wrong side. dorian honor society student council. all conference athlete. who did everything right. and it was all wrong. why must this nation. and its interest and its power. for the sake of a people so far away. we fight because we must fight. if we re to live in a world. where every country can shape its all this. training regime believe all these years that there are enemies out there. that charge to protect ourself from human beings and it really is we were the enemy . during brian s four years in the air force the vietnam conflict increasingly polarized the american public. brian the lord is his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military vietnam with a profound sense of alienation. to go to a country that we knew nothing about committing genocide and to still be with our. people. much more two of. the officers t
loops. i didn t really get it right but. i started out as a very conservative republican like every person in my farming community and upstate new york in the fifty s. my father was a member of the john birch society he was very opposed to the new deal labor unions catholics jews i thought. he was actually not that unusual and my dad for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and a good voice in my time i was really proud of. in one thousand sixty-six as the u.s. military began ramping up its forces in vietnam brian wilson was drafted. i enlisted in the air force for a four year program to go into the army as an induction. and then i got my orders to become an air force sure ranger officer command. a unit of forty men. and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure of bombing missions. and in one week. we went visited five targets. all the targets were inhabited fishing and. seco
eyes are just staring up i was looking at my sister. i looked into his eyes and it was all lies or was a lie and i suspect that everything i had ever been taught was a lie. my life completely radically changed. i do not know why i am here. i was in somebody else s village nine thousand miles from my farming village in upstate new york. oh are they doing there. or we doing there. i want to for more religious act we saw the same scene. then i realized i don t need to do this if he s a map. pct. these are mothers. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in every seat please please please please i said i was on the wrong side. this is how could this be good for you i m on the wrong side i. value story and honor society student council. all conference athlete. did everything right. and was all wrong. why must this nation. has and its interest and its power. for the sake of a people so far away. we fight because we must fig
unusual and my dad for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and a good boy scout of my time i was really proud of. in one thousand sixty-six as the u.s. military began ramping up its forces in vietnam brian wilson was drafted. i enlisted in the air force for a four year program to go into the army as an induction. and then i got my orders to become an air force sure ranger officer commanding a unit of forty minutes. and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure bombing mission. then in one week. we went visited five targets. targets were inhabited fishing again. saturday they were all i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet. five hundred pound bomb suspension a shock to napalm. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it is burned from the me off i watched as far as i could walk b
better secure our nation s cyberspace and we cannot underestimate these challenges. during our district work period last week irk took the opportunity to go ton a cybersecurity tour to understand better what rhode island s issues are. i visited several companies. in speaking on a panel at the always on technology summit i learn about attempts to stem cybercrimes by rhode island state police and i learned about an election security workshop. i encouraged accountants to advise their compliants about cybersecurity risks and promoted cyberhygiene practices. most importantly, i spoke to students and participants at cyberpatriot about their importance as the next generation of cybersecurity leaders. cybersecurity may be the national and economic security challenge of the 21st century but with the talent we have in rhode island i m confident that we can take it on. thank you and i yield back the alance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the