At mondays veterans day day ceremony at Arlington National cemetery president obama talked about ending the war. Here is a little of what he had. On tour after tour in iraq and afghanistan. This generation, the 911 generation has met ever mission and because of their service the core of al qaeda is on the path to defeat and our homeland is safer. There are many people like the soontobe veteran i met a while ago. Hogan survived to iraq twice and survived three separate ied explosions and deployed again to afgh afgh afghanistan once she was well. She wears the combat action badge and is xht committed to helping others recover from the trial of war. Helping the truth is what she said all about. My fellow americans, that is what we should boo be all about. Soon one of the first marines to arrive in afghanistan 12 years ago, daniel yu, will lead the last trip that is set to deploy and more troops will come home. This winter the troop levels in afghanistan are down to 34,000 and by this Time
In terms of the physical place to live, she said in the famous interview with theodore white, the camelot interview the week after the assassination said she wanted to live with my children in the places i lived with jack. Georgetown and on the cape. She could have gone to the cape. She went to georgetown. Avril larriman loaned his home and she bought a home across the street. It was inundated with tourist buses, tourists, photographers, peeping into her windows and coming up on the porch. She couldnt bear it. After a relative few months, she took off for new york and spent the rest of her time there. Did mrs. Kennedy have to testify for the Warren Commission . She did. She did. June of 1964, earl warren and one or two others came to her parlor in georgetown and asked her about the motorcade. It was brief, i think it was less than a half an hour, but she did have to testify. Thats on the record. Some of her physical description was wounding and kept for sometime because it was too grap
In afghanistan and iraq have changed the face of veterans day in america. Our phone lines are open now so you can give us a call. Host and we have a special line for veterans this morning host and catch up on social media at twitter, facebook, and email us. It is veterans day in the United States, and i want to lead with three different stories about the three different eras of veterans from three different papers today. Here is the Washington Times this morning. The headline reunion poignant for world war ii veterans. That story notes the host when the retirement army for slim tenant went to his first reunion at the 30th Infantry Division, those who landed on the beaches of normandy and fought across spansion germany, he was greeted by a thousand other veterans. Host another generation of veterans is looked at in the Christian Science monitor today. The vietnam era veterans. 40 years after americas most controversial war began to wind down, more vets seek closure and reconciliation. F
State of emergency. After protest over his plan to extend 27 years in office turned violent. Demonstrators set the Parliament Building on fire. And they took state tv off the air. At least three people were shot dead by Security Forces. The countries Opposition Leader has called on him to resign. Thomas has been covering the political unrest these past few months. We are joined in neighboring ivory coast. Tell us more about the protest. What going on right now . People have been protesting for the last weekend it is essentially the president who has been in power for 27 years, he describes himself as a peacemaker of the region. And what he was seeking to do today was to change the constitution to allow himself to run for another term in the election next year. And this is what road testers have been spilling out into the spree in defiance for. It escalated further today because of the vote that has since been dropped because of the opposition to it. The opposition is obvious by the pic
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