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shooting black people, but when we shoot each other, ain t nobody saying much. so it s time for a change now. reporter: the club says it will increase its security measures and do all it can to make sure peoples are safe while here. in vineland, ted greenberg, nbc10 news. to the weather now. gray skies and cooler temperatures didn t stop this guy from setting up and doing a little fishing along the cooper river in pennsauken and take a live look down the shore. cloudy there in cape may as well. check out the radar. you re going to see a lot of green. you know what that means? showers are the in the area big time. a few showers out there this afternoon. a lot more later tonight and into tomorrow, so if you think today was nasty and windy and chilly, wait till tomorrow. we ve got the cloudy skies now, the visibility s good and it won t be as good tomorrow. the clouds will be pretty low, maybe blocking off the tops of the buildings at times. you can see these sho ....
on c-span3. 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 lee s 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 90 s, 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 astron ....
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 ....
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 501-c3 organization and part of the by-laws 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 it s appalling to me how little they know. it s 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 pro-bono, this is my 81st speech this year. in 2015. i will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is over. i m speaking pretty much ....
our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. the astronaut badge is in the low 200. today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man who has completed his training and is ready to be considered a badge holder and of the fraternity and sorority, brotherhood or fellowship of tomb guard. we are a 501(c)(3) organization and part of our bylaws is that we do community outreach to educate the public about the tomb. i find that your generation, sort of a sweeping generalization, that your generation knows about the tomb. i talked to school groups and it is appalling how little they know of our history. it is not their fault. we have failed them because we have allowed all of this testing and teaching to the test and not put history on the test. i will get off my soapbox. just think of that. i do speak to a lot of school groups pro bono. this is my 81st speech this year. i will have well over 100 by the ti ....