The popular locala palooza festival shutting down. Organizers ended the final day of the festival 30 minutes early when another storm hit the area. Here in grays lake, illinois, a day of cleanup. Parts of this building across the street. You can see that truck turned over. Carson, savannah, back to you. What a night. Jong yang in grays lake, illinois, thank you. Meanwhile, in california, thousands of homes are being threatened by a wildfire that nearly tripled in size over the weekend. Emergency officials stepped up evacuation orders. Joe fryer has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carson. This fire now at 54,000 acres, growing at a rate thats unprecedented. The flames have moved into a more remote area, which is good news. But in these conditions, they know things can change in an instant. The rocky fire is an unpredictable monster still growing this morning, even veteran firefighters say they have never seen anything like it. At one point, the flames tore through 20,00
Young children of either gender so in the all voluntary military, this is a new thing where we have these children at home where these parents are doing multiple lengthy deployments. When i finish talking, desma took the microphone and said i just want to add something to that. She said, i am earned a lot of money during my deployment. I got combat pay and i chose to enlist and i chose to fulfill those orders. I appreciated having that opportunity to earn that money. I earned a lot more money doing this than i was making as a waitress at a truck stop, and i wouldnt want my experience used in a way that would deny anybody else the same economic opportunity. And so, she was essentially saying, you how in thorpe the author of this book might think its not a great thing deploy a single mom, but thats easy for you to say because you werent trying to raise my children on what i was earning. She told me later that she thought i was uppity, i think she meant upper class. [laughter] i think she
Because he did see i would research for ever and never feel i had the authority. When you dont go overseas overseas, you never feel this is your story to tell. And i knew when i wrote the manuscript that i had to be making mistakes as a civilian because it is so hard to understand military culture. There is of funny moment when desma tried to explain where she lived in iraq. I said was its in a tent . She said no. She said i had a containerize Housing Units per cry said what is that . She said you know, the conex. A shipping container. But it was four attempts at translation before i could see what she was trying to say and that is the gulf between the military and civilian cultures it is hard to bridge i can almost what flip the question around to turn it to either of you to say is a diehard to convey what youve lived through to a civilian reactor and how do you do that . That is the reverse of the question. First, you have every right to write about it as i do so thank you for doing
Dallas had beaten the San Francisco 49ers to play in the super bowl the city was celebrating detroits suffered a concussion jebus sitting in a dark room in the hospital and looked at me and said where am i . I said you were in the hospital and had a concussion. Did i win the game . Did i play today . What does that mean . Were going to the super bowl into a tent. Five minutes later he lifted me and said where am i . Why am i here . Did we win the game . I almost thought he was joking. This went on 10 minutes later finally i wrote down and up piece of paper and it terrified me and it was a crisis of conscience because if my work with athletes was to enhance their lives then how was a constant how could i enable the players to do an activity that with the touche dementia lead to dementia . Dementia. So, we issued a white paper and not much changed. We did it again in 2005 at the institute and then we have robert and kevin and a whole series that have been with me on this from the start.
Women in combat, but its also their changing roles in war and the ever present danger of Sexual Assault and harassment and the stress on daily lives, families and relationships, when they come back home. But the overall take away from the book is much greater than that. I was wondering what you hope to address through telling these three stories of these three women . You know, i think what i was hoping to address and what i wound up addressing might be two Different Things. At the outset, really, outset, really, i think what i was hoping to address was may be, there was this Huge Division in our society and i just saw two authors walkin who have written books who are both veterans and novelists and their books are really amazing and i hope you have a chance to check them out. I think they are speaking later this afternoon. At 330. I think i was hoping to address a really big question between civilians and military mindsets. I put myself in the camp that ignorant group of people with c