On september 12th, 19, 18 the American Expeditionary force launched their First Independent operation of world war i. We travel to northeastern france to visit a few locations and learn about a battle in a town just inside of bulge that the germans had occupied since 1914. To begin the story, here is a portion of a 1960 u. S. Army film that gives a brief sketch of the operation. In late july, 1918, pushing created the First United States Army under his command. Immediate steps were taken to concentrate American Forces on one point on the line. That point was saintmihiel. Had held a since early in the war penetrating the allied lines, 60 miles it enabled that enemy to harass operations. More than half 1 million first army troops assembled for the task to crushing it out of existence. 15 divisions were moved into division. By the end of the day, on september 11th, 1918, the first army was ready for its First Independent operation against the enemy. At dawn on the 12th, drizzling rain, th
Good afternoon are three people who need no introduction. The woman to my right, the commissioner of the department of health, and to her right, the state epidemiologist, and the man on my left, the state police superintendent. Also joining us per usual is the director of the office of Homeland Security preparedness, Deputy Council of the guard. One quick reminder that is off given the date we the find ourselves meeting, is before i go through our discussion, a quick reminder that although today is april 15, your state tax returns are not due today. Pursuant to the legislation that i signed actually yesterday, you now have until july 15. And the three month extension is automatic. You need do nothing. Just want to remind folks of that. Now we want to get to the numbers up front if we can. Today we are reporting an additional 2625 positive test results and a total of 71,030 new jerseyans have now tested positive. According to our online dashboard, accessible again for gov, as of 10 00 p
It is now my great pleasure to introduce our guest tonight, chris hedges. Hes a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has reported on wars and insurgencies in central the persian gulf and the balkans. He became, the New York Times middle east bureau chief in 1991, and then the Balkan Bureau chief for the times in 1995. And because war is our topic tonight, its worth saying that chris has been held captive, has experienced the full force of war firsthand. What maybe fewer people know is that he is also an ordained presbyterian minister who, for many years now has been teaching inmates in new jersey prisons and who works tirelessly, tirelessly on behalf of those inmates in and when they are released released. His recent book, our class and transformation in an american prison, which you can see in the back there, comes out of that experience. Chris is the author of, many other bestselling and often prescient books. These include american fascists, the christian right and the war on ameri
It is now my great pleasure to introduce our guest tonight, chris hedges. Hes a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has reported on wars and insurgencies in central the persian gulf and the balkans. He became, the New York Times middle east bureau chief in 1991, and then the Balkan Bureau chief for the times in 1995. And because war is our topic tonight, its worth saying that chris has been held captive, has experienced the full force of war firsthand. What maybe fewer people know is that he is also an ordained presbyterian minister who, for many years now has been teaching inmates in new jersey prisons and who works tirelessly, tirelessly on behalf of those inmates in and when they are released released. His recent book, our class and transformation in an american prison, which you can see in the back there, comes out of that experience. Chris is the author of, many other bestselling and often prescient books. These include american fascists, the christian right and the war on ameri
It is now my great pleasure to introduce our guest tonight, chris hedges. Hes a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has reported on wars and insurgencies in central the persian gulf and the balkans. He became, the New York Times middle east bureau chief in 1991, and then the Balkan Bureau chief for the times in 1995. And because war is our topic tonight, its worth saying that chris has been held captive, has experienced the full force of war firsthand. What maybe fewer people know is that he is also an ordained presbyterian minister who, for many years now has been teaching inmates in new jersey prisons and who works tirelessly, tirelessly on behalf of those inmates in and when they are released released. His recent book, our class and transformation in an american prison, which you can see in the back there, comes out of that experience. Chris is the author of, many other bestselling and often prescient books. These include american fascists, the christian right and the war on ameri