Here. I spent any evenings on the second floor and listening to the local authors talk about the books. So i really appreciate the invitation. I want to say hi to everybody out there who have not been able to see facetoface, in person. So thank you for tuning in. Obviously i am doubly honored that ron has agreed to speak with me tonight about the book. Go back. We were introduced by a local, years ago. Ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. Enron of course with a vietnam veteran, most of the book that i wrote is about World War Two veterans and i want to give you a little bit of a background before and i start speaking. Before world war ii, if you are paralyzed, you. Much but no helper as they would be called. Instead the average lifespan of someone would be 18 months of someone wanted in world war i. World war ii was a game changer, the advent of penicillin. In other drugs. They had surgical units are be
And to the new digital community. And also appeared on our website so this evenings discussion will conclude with a time for your questions. And push the q a been we would get there as many as time allows. I will post a link the book into donate your financial contributions make amends like tonight possible to ensure the future of a landmark independent bookstore thank you for showing up and being in support of our booksellers we appreciate your support now and always. Finally as you may have known technical issues may arise be will do our best to resolve them quickly thank you for your patience and understanding. Please introduce our speakers. With a professor of history at Johns Hopkins and her work is recognized by the American Council and the organization of american historians and the fellowships with the columbia universitys center and the university of pennsylvania law school. And the service million child right museum and also in the Washington Post and with the history of blac
Im becky quick along with joe kerr de kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. After two days of optimism, the get out there again trade was on turned around a little bit yesterday. We did see people rushing back to the stayathome stocks as covid cases and momentization hs continue to climb. And some states are imposing restrictions and the nasdaq ended up 2 after being down monday and tuesday. Yesterday the dow ended flat, right now indicated down by about 115. Never made to the record, still waiting circumstanling around tt s p 500 down by 2. 5 and nasdaq indicated up another 51 points this morning these were the stay at home stocks, amazon up, apple up 3 , zoom which had gotten hammered, yesterday up by almost 10 took c docusign 5. 2 and netflix 2. 2 and treasury yields, yesterday it was closed for veterans day this morning it is open and you can see the ten year still around the very heightened levels, again, not historically, but based on what weve seen in recent history within range of 1 a
There are more than 400 National Parks across america covering over 85 million acres of land with locations at every state. More than 325 Million People visited the sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland at Cayuga National park. Situated a along the river will learn how the canal system here plays a role in the expansion during the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio eerie canal is part of the two canal system. That was actually put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832, and basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river, which is part of a larger idea. A National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies also tweeted right along the atlanta seaboard. And our leaders at the time saw a problem. That problem was we needed the country to expand westward
Will airlines survive the pandemics economic wrath . And dont become a victim. Real estate wire fraud. It seemed too good to be true. Home buyers devastated by a sophisticated hacking scheme. And then, i called lindsey and i said weve been robbed. Live, from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news, with shepherd smith. Good evening. The covid surge weve been hearing about. The fall winter uptick its here. It started as a trickle. Then, as a stream. Now, its a flood. This new wave or whatever you want to call it is right, this minute nobodys told us we see it, so we are reporting it look at this this is a new covid Field Hospital at the wisconsin state fair it opened, today, for recovering patients, so theres room for new ones in strained hospitals well go there, live remember, it was central park, back in the spring, in new york city now, its the wisconsin state fair and look at this map in minnesota, the National Guard called out to help with Nursing Homes on opposite