First pitch. They say they havent had and her part to do a battle support from the mayor or the by a woman who knows what it Portland Police because even before the federal agents got means to join the fight. Here Portland Police poured tear early today starts right now good morning gas on the protesters as well. Im Frances Rivera im phillip mena. As they were trying to speak to in dozens of states the protesters they called him an Coronavirus Crisis is growing more concerning by the day embarrassment to the city and several of them calling for him california now has the distinction of the most to resign. Confirmed cases after surpassing all right new york thank you. And florida is quickly getting civil rights leader charles closer to the 400,000 mark evers has died a list of major retailers that he was the older brother of met require shoppers to wear a face gar evers. Mask during the pandemic he led the naacp in mississippi continues to grow. Best buy, costco, cvs, walmart and in 196
Second. She has photos that she is going to show him as we discussed today. Lets see if i can figure this out. There we go. Theres nothing specific. Books came out april 31. To give an introduction she covers history at Texas University which coincidentally or maybe not as home of the archives and this is a book that is special to her. Something im always fascinated by is how did you ge do you getn this topic and what got you hooked in . Guest thank you for having me today. This is a moment in time that i met carol bailey with curtis and all of the aviation people, he was one of the coolest people. In june of 93 i went by myself, couldnt get any friends to go with and pointed out in the shade of the hangar. Then i found out she formed the 26 in world war ii by never heard of any of them. I thought if i never heard of them, who else has and i decided that was wrong. I set myself on a mission to get here and have been telling their story ever since. Spirit departs that the audience is in
This is about 40 minutes. Im president of the womens memorial foundation. Im a retired Major General from the army. Were at the womens memorial in arlington cemetery. Its the only major memorial thats dedicated to women who served their country. We have over three million women who have worn the uniform of the united states. This memorial was dedicated in 1997. Over 40,000 people lined memorial avenue from the bridge to the memorial. Women from world war i through the current times in 1997. The memorial is on 4. 2 acres of park service land. Behind me you can see the headstones of Arlington National cemetery and that surrounds the park service land. The memorial is come poposed of Education Center, theres a pool where we have ceremonies on memorial day for women who have fallen. Theres a line going from the Lincoln Memorial, you can see it as it comes up Memorial Drive with stones. As it goes through our memorial up the reel to our fountain and through the memorial there are black tile
So as we leave world war ii and the legislation that gave women a permanent part of the military, we are we wait just a few short years and we are faced with war on the korean peninsula. There was such a concern that it would be a world war, like world war ii was that we recalled people to service, to be sure we had people in place to be part of this war and many of them were women as well for the first time. It didnt turn out that way that we needed that many. At any rate, most of the women who served in korea on the ground were army nurses. It was a horrendous situation with, they would barely get established and set up a hospital and they would have to move. We have one diary from a woman, a nurse, who talked about setting up a hospital in an abandoned school. It was dirty, and it was hot but they needed to close the windows because rats crawled up the outside of the building. And those were the conditions under which someone served. There were long hours of duty for all of us. We w
And legislation that gave women a permanent part of the military, we wait just a few short years and we are faced with war on the korean peninsula. There was such a concern that it would be a with a world war like world war ii, that we recalled people to service. We wanted to be sure that we had people in place to be part of this war and many of them when were women as well for the first time. It didnt turn out that we needed that many, but most of the women who served in korea on they ground where army nurses. It was a horrendous situation. They would barely get established and set up a hospital and they would have to move. We have one diary from a woman who talked about setting up a hospital in an abandoned school. It was sturdy and hot, but they needed to close the windows ruts called up the outside of the building. Those were the conditions under which these women served. They are long hours of duty for all of us, we work for 18 to 24 hours, 36 hours around the clock. This is the w