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To be -- >> people in you know, classes where means, do have the means to take care of a child, if contraception does fail, too. >> theres also we should, what youre pointing to is something weve touched on the show and some interesting writers on the left and right wright about this. a kind of bifurcation in american family life and american sex life and american household ordering. which is that the upper middle class and above, have increasingly traditional family formations, they wait longer...

Freedom. the first doorknock at the home. the first flag-trapped coffin in this long era of war. he left behind a wife and four children, when i reached his mother, mary, she wanted to make sure i was pronouncing his name right. evander, her oldest child, enlisted right out of high school and always had a heart for others. i asked her if the war and the deaths of those who fought him seemed like an afterthought in american life. she said, i think people want to go on and not think about wars and...

Always laughing. trying to make other people laugh. he joined the army because he had a wife and a child. he was working at i-hop as a cook. so he came from the military family, so the army was the answer. >> and he, he deployed, he came back and how, you spent some dime with him obviously after his first deployment. what was your understanding of his mental state then? was it clear to you that he was struggling with some stuff? >> derek forced laughter. he was drinking a lot. he had a picket of...

Modern america are not going to be conducive to pro life laws or attitudes in real life. as you say, the exception is rape, inses and me. its because people dont view child, you know, having a child as something that can be thrust on them or that is, you know, immediately their responsibility. because of actions they took. they view it as a choice that they make, volitionally with full awareness of every little step along the way. >> but it is certainly true that there are real-world implication...

Supplanted by subsequent wars and subsequent war dead, we came as a nation to observe it together. to mourn our dead collectively. but in those days when the stench of death hung over a union that had barely survived, it was that hours that was contested, that was claimed by each side. as walt whitman said of them, the dead, the dead, the dead, our dead, or north, or south, ours all. today it can seem at times is if we barely inhabit the same union as ar own soldiers and were not in union with a...

during this long decade of war. we fought more war with a smaller and smaller percentage of the population taking part. theres no draft and military service is increasingly rare in elite circles in a 2010 speech at duke, secretary of defense spoke about this divide. >> whatever their found sentiments for men and women in uniform, for most americans, the wars remain an abstraction. a distant and unpleasant series of news items that do not affect them personally. >> so while the fallen e...

sergeant evander andrews, a member of the 366 civil squadron died in a heavy equipment accident, while constructing an air strip in qatar. he was the first american casualty of operation enduring freedom. the first doorknock at the home. the first flag-trapped coffin in this long era of war. he left behind a wife and four children, when i reached his mother, mary, she wanted to make sure i was pronouncing his name right. evander, her oldest child, enlisted right out of high school and ...

During this long decade of war. we fought more war with a smaller and smaller percentage of the population taking part. theres no draft and military service is increasingly rare in elite circles in a 2010 speech at duke, secretary of defense spoke about this divide. >> whatever their found sentiments for men and women in uniform, for most americans, the wars remain an abstraction. a distant and unpleasant series of news items that do not affect them personally. >> so while the fallen exist as pe...