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During this event. Is 90 minutes. Good afternoon. Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us for this panel, the long shadow of war, veterans experiences on the home front. Our host and moderator will be joining us momentarily and we thought we would go ahead and get started in the meantime. I think we will go ahead and introduce ourselves one by one as we go along. My name is Kenneth Macleish and i teach at and the university. My research and is a subject of my book making war at fort hood, military u...

I would also like to caution all of us, the american people, to respect and trust this president , who has put us on another footing in the world. We are seeing much better in the world because of president obama. I do not believe we would have the opportunities we have right now in the Foreign Relations field if it were not for him and the coolness, the thought, and, frankly, the love that he puts into the decisions he makes. The oldest strategy of the enemy is to divide and conquer. We must ap...

Rajiv shah has strict but different systems but they have numerous projects that go around the world, with contractors that are overseeing these things. Its a process that seems to take some time get under control. The idea is to make a number of recommendations on how they can do that. Again, it has been a problem for usaid for some time. Can we speak about the alan gross story, and whether or not the end restrictions efforts are constant. His family have been quite disappointed by the administ...

Strong on the field right now, and i hope it regains the healthy once had the health it once had off the field as well. To our panelists, thank you for joining us. To those of you who followed us online and on television, thank you. We bid you good night from washington, d. C. Any of the bigd 12 discussion on College Sports and athletes, will have an encore presentation tonight at 8 00 eastern here on cspan, or watch any time online. Search big 12 at www. Cspan. Org. Next, exploring early attemp...

The interviewer looked stricken. Her supervisor quickly looks down at her notes. Shame wild and my throat and eyes. My humiliation was absolute. Even the doctors were laughing at me. Welcome to the office of Veterans Affairs psycho boy. [applause] thank you thank you very much. Again, thank you so much for coming. I really honestly very, very much appreciated. We have some time for questions. Michael and james are going to circulate with the microphone. Any questions . I am happy to take them. A...

38 soldiers took their own lives. More casualties than in the battlefield. More than one a day. This is precisely the topic you take on in the, the the invisible wounds of war. Talk about it. Guest first of all, only 1 of our population over 18 is in the army. It is a volume steer army. Which volunteer army. Which means they dont have enough soldiers. Theyre stretched thin. They have too many deployments. Usually you need two years between deployments. Some of them get a year, nine months. At th...

Groundhog day. Its appropriate that were talking on groundhog day. Mitt romney out for 2016. Wisconsin Governor Scott walker standing atop a new poll a 60 favorable rating. He might be as charismatic as mitt romney. Youre so mean. Hes more of a smoldering stick. Jeb bush is in fifth or sixth place. Hes as conservative as they come. I dont think christie has a chance. Hes going to london. Never heard of him. Do you know who Chris Christie is . No. As christie steps in a minefield. Groundhog day b...

That can happen. Cher tweeted back saying, shell be here tomorrow night. Very nice. So i just wanted to correct the impression that the world has that cher is going to be on here tonight. Gives me time to get my outfit together. Oh, toss tomorrow night, come on. You can do it. Well talk about it tomorrow. Think about it. Any way, i can help with that. If you do it, too, ill do it. Oh, boy, weve got something to think about. Talk to you tomorrow. Thank you, rachel. Donald trump is now really runn...

Tell who the real one was. That can happen. Cher tweeted back saying, shell be here tomorrow night. Very nice. So i just wanted to correct the impression that the world has that cher is going to be on here tonight. Gives me time to get my outfit together. Oh, toss tomorrow night, come on. You can do it. Well talk about it tomorrow. Think about it. Any way, i can help with that. If you do it, too, ill do it. Oh, boy, weve got something to think about. Talk to you tomorrow. Thank you, rachel. Dona...

The inability to reconcile wartime actions with a personal moral code can create lasting psychological consequences for veterans.