Of my life just being a guy who fought in the war in iraq. In november we were ordered to once again hitalluja. And that was just complete chaos. Most reporters caught, you know, six days in falluja. For most of us it was more more like 3 to 4 weeks of intense combat. And by the time we were done, we had lost 33 marines and the city was in bad shape. It was pretty much destroyed. We have a film. We like to say that in a world full of problems, ground operations is a story about solutions. We have a lot of veterans coming back from both from iraq, who have been here for a while, and from afghanistan, who are coming home now. Ptsd often doesnt show up rig away. It can be a year or two or more before it really starts to show up. Youre always on alert. You know, youre thinking of the worst scenarios that are gonna happen. [explosion] whoa we were going through e town, and we had snipers on the buildings. They were firing at us. Bombs were blowing up everywhere. [gunshots] and a mortar came
I dont want to spend the rest of my life just being a guy who fought in the war in iraq. In november we were ordered to once again hit fluja. And that was just complete chaos. Most reporters caught, you know, six days in falluja. For most of us it was more more like 3 to 4 weeks of intense combat. And by the time we were done, we had lost 33 marines and the city was in bad shape. It was pretty much destroyed. We have a film. We like to say that in a world full of problems, ground operations is a story about solutions. We have a lot of veterans coming back from both from iraq, who have been here for a while, and from afghanistan, who are coming home now. Ptsd often doesnt show up rightway. It can be a year or two or more before it really starts to show up. Youre always on alert. You know, youre thinking of the worst scenarios that are gonna happen. [explosion] whoa we were going through th town, and we had snipers on the buildings. They were firing at us. Bombs were blowing up everywher
With this years lukas fridays ceremony our program is a little bit of the introduction and i hope an interesting discussion with our three winners and then with more celebration to come so thanks for all of you to share this part of the evening with us first i will tell you about this prize is you may not be as acquainted with it as we are but this is a prize in memory of tony lucas who inspired my generation the first time we started to taken college what we wanted to write and our generation grew up with a narrative nonfiction searching about social issues and Common Ground so when he passed a lot of people were inspired by his life to create this prius this is where the enterprise began it has expanded gradually for the Senior Executive in the netherlands at the time of his death in the 1997 as a reporter of serious history his children established the prize as part of a the lucas fridays project and his family has generally underwritten the prize since the inception in 1998 his wif
To cspan. Org. Now, a discussion about medical technology and new inventions to aid the disabled. It was part of the washington hosts transformer summit held on wednesday. This is two hours. We are delighted to welcome you here this morning. Thank you for joining us. [applause] were sitting in the center of what we call Washington Post live. The new initiative that extends the reach of our journalism through live events, streaming, and pairs or journalist with leaders and decisionmakers to dissect and explore the most important and compelling issues off our time. The idea of todays conference on transformers actually began with a conversation we had here about the transformation underway at the Washington Post. We have gone from what was once a locally focused newspaper, to a multiplatform Digital First News Organization serving a Broad National and global audience. And although we have made amazing progress and are leading the industry in many ways, well always view ourselves as being
Of what we call Washington Post live. The new initiative that extends the reach of our journalism through live events, streaming, and pairs or journalist with leaders and decisionmakers to dissect and explore the most important and compelling issues off our time. The idea of todays conference on transformers actually began with a conversation we had here about the transformation underway at the Washington Post. We have gone from what was once a locally focused newspaper, to a multiplatform Digital First News Organization serving a Broad National and global audience. And although we have made amazing progress and are leading the industry in many ways, well always view ourselves as being in the process of transforming and never fully transformed, because like so Many Industries the media space is changing to rapidly the process of transforming can never really be complete. With advance in technology, the speed and scope of change is only increasing only accelerating. Achieving or maintai