Thank you so much for being here this evening. Its a great pleasure to have you in the house. At the beginning can we please rise for the presentation of the colors and main standing for the national anthem. Music o say can you see by the dawns early light of what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars music back through the perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night music mac that our flag was still there osagjose does that starspangled banner yet wave music mac oer the land of the free and the home of the brave [applause] it is now my distinct honor to introduce the United States senator from the great state of arkansas. [applause] [cheering] [applause] and enthusiastic crowd. I was estimating downstairs i believe ive interviewed senator kaufman more than 400 times about weekly beginning in 2010. I want to start the air but in a
Colors and main standing for the national anthem. Music o say can you see by the dawns early light of what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars music back through the perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night music mac that our flag was still there osagjose does that starspangled banner yet wave music mac oer the land of the free and the home of the brave [applause] it is now my distinct honor to introduce the United States senator from the great state of arkansas. [applause] [cheering] [applause] and enthusiastic crowd. I was estimating downstairs i believe ive interviewed senator kaufman more than 400 times about weekly beginning in 2010. I want to start the air but in a backwards way. 9 11 you into harvard law school. To set up your time in the old guard what did you do after 9 11 how you came into the service and for those
SUMMARY
Lewis A. Armistead was a Confederate general in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Decorated for bravery during the Mexican War (1846–1848), the West Point dropout and widower earned a reputation as a tough, soft-spoken, and highly respected leader at such battles as Seven Pines (1862), Antietam (1862), and Malvern Hill (1862), and was known to his friends, ironically, as “Lo,” short for Lothario. At Gettysburg, on July 3, 1863, he helped to lead the frontal assault that came to be known as Pickett’s Charge. When Armistead, at the head of his brigade, reached the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge that protected the Army of the Potomac‘s Second Corps, he was shot and wounded more than once. The Union troops who fired the fatal shots happened to be commanded by one of Armistead’s closest friends, Winfield Scott Hancock. His death was immortalized in the 1993 film