[background chatter] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I am jim knotts, the president and ceo of the veterans vietnam fund, and i will be the master of ceremonies today. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the annual veterans day ceremony at the wall. Before we begin the formal program, i would like to recognize all of the goldstar family members we have with us today. The mothers, fathers, wives, siblings, spouses, nieces,. Ephews, and sons and daughters all of those who have experienced the loss of a loved one and no all too well the sacrifices that our military families make. Waitinglly, to those for the return of their loved ones who are listed as missing, thank you for joining us. [applause] jim knotts i would also like to take a moment to thank the wall volunteers. They are in the yellow jackets. And the staff from the Memorial Fund that they do all year round. They truly put everything they have to making the experience of every visitor at the wall as meaningful as it can be
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Im the ceo of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. I will be your master of ceremonies today. It is my pleasure to be the first to welcome you to the veterans day ceremony at the wall. Before we begin the formal program, i would like to the gold starof family members we have with us here today. Fathers, wives, siblings, spouses, nieces, nephews, and sons and daughters in touch. All of those who experienced the loss of a loved one and know all too well of the sacrifices that our military families make. To those still waiting for the return of their loved ones who are listed as missing. Thank you for joining us. [applause] id also like to take a moment to thank the wall volunteers, they are the folks you see in the Yellow Jackets and hats. Of the Vietnam Veter
Capitol hill studio by the Deputy Editor of the provincial energy news from the coal industry is in the United States what are the main types of coal mined in the United States . You to go from black to brown song that is mined in eastern pennsylvania is the not as much now. And then that type that is used for power plants than the type that is more brown and has less ability to produce energy but it is used in north dakota lot so that ranges to their different based and what part of the country. You talk about their ranges of coal talk about the mines. A lot of people assume all coal mines are power plants. But there are a lot of minds and there is the big marketlants for our metallurgical coal you estimate coal and steel and iron. A lot of the exports of overseas are for that metallurgical coal. It is and the power plant regulations but how much countries are developing and how much steel bidi to build there is speculation is our today our guest this morning should note that as we ta
The book is called the american genocide of the United States and california and in catastrophe 1846 to 1873. The author is the la professor of history, benjamin madly. You righ write between 1846 and, californias native American Population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to the 30,000. How did that occur . There are many things we understand already about the story. We know disease, exposure, starvation, those were all major factors not only in the population decline but the suppression of the demographic rebound. Once all the other factors and how they played in systematic regimes they had 370 massacres carried out by vigilantes and volunteers. It was a very damning argument that took place in california between 1846 and 1873. It is when they took california from mexico as a part of the mexicanamerican war and so the story begins their but its also the year that the major massacre of the california indian people in this case. Its a massacre of by all accounts people gathered on the bank
Hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped in the fighting. Im brent goff. Good to have you with us. It sounded good, but is it better not to believe . That is the question here in europe. The u. S. Vice president , mike pratt mike pence, spending the day in brussels, seeking to reassure eu leaders and allies of washingtons commitment of working together. First, he said that the United States will always be europes greatest ally and he told nato that it was time for its members to pay their full share of the cost of the alliance. We will have analysis on that and a moment, but first this report on his visit to the European Unions headquarters. [ [chanting] not a particularly warm welcome to his visit, but a protesters camped outside, eu leaders had long been looking forward to his visit. Let me first of all thank you for this meeting. We all truly needed it. After all, there was much to discuss in his First Official visit to the European Union capital, with the eu foreignpolicy chi