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Bulletproof vest program, Critical Resources to enable state and local Law Enforcement jurisdiction to purchase their lifesaving vests. It is imperative the program be funded and reauthorized with Adequate Funding. Physical wellness is a huge part of an officers safety. A fit officer will be able to serve his or her Community Better as well as provide better support to his or her fellow officers. It is imperative chiefs promote wellness within their departments and encourage their officers to ge...

In appellation of the basin is my into standing that most of the flowback is used to drill new wells. So the quantity of flowback is small. To ship it to ohio for final injection. But the industry has evolved ways to do this. In pennsylvania one of the companies, i forget suggested a way to have acid mine drainage coming of coal mines as an additive instead of using fresh water but there is a state regulation saying that you cannot get economic advantage of using a waste product so they never di...

Or does affect someone. What we thought we knew or understood 80 years ago, or even 30 years ago was sometimes now no longer believed, or we understand differently. The symbols that we once embraced as a nation are now seen by some as offensive. The conventional wisdom that often undergirds our understanding of our past is often so simple as to be wrong or at least incomplete or debatable. So we challenge, we debate, and that really ticks people off. Which brings me of course to the civil war. I...

Civil war. From its cause to its purpose to the details of 100 battles, we argue. We cant even agree on its name. To rephrase variously depending on the perspective of the namer, the war of northern aggression the war between the states, the war of the rebellion which was once the official u. S. Government name for it the war for independence, the second american revolution, the war for emancipation, and probably two or three dozen more. In no other time do we have a historical memory so careful...

Those who acknowledge complexities rather than simplicities . Or worse, deny the simplicities altogether . What happens to them . They are invariably assaulted in some way not physically, of course they are labeled unpatriotic. They are labeled unproductive divisive revisionist politically correct. Those of the words that we use as when somebody violates one of our cherished simplicities. We often react to that as a body does to an infection. We try to contain it and stamp it out, as your bodies...

The confederacy fought to sustain and perpetuate differences. That its all between itself and the rest of the union. Thats what brought on the war. The differences. Those differences are very clearly laid out and statements of policy and practice. The confederate obstetrician, for example. One of the major differences between the United States constitution the confederacy got the attrition there is a six year term for president. I dont think they went to war over that. A major difference is the ...

For preservation was initiated in the 1880s and 1890s when the veterans were at the height of their power in government and Industry Leaders and all of them. It was because battlefields ironically these places of conflict could become places of comfort. So americans always put tremendous emphasis on these places as a tool of reconciliation. The key part of the battlefield that came from the sons of confederate veterans stipulated the government would care for this battlefield and not detract fro...

Exists than the rest of the world combined than all. Society thinks of itself as being nonmilitaristic and i think in our essence we are. Preserves battlefield land to such a degree. Now our traditional view of the civil war was born on the postwar period. The reunification of our nation. Think about the fact in United States capital today are seven statutes to man supporting the rebellion against the federal government during the American Civil War. They dont do that in syria, libya. They do it...

Lees father, light horse harry lee had been with washington at yorktown and witnessed what he deemed to be the shameful behavior of lord corn wallacenr by sending a subordinate to formally surrender the british army. Lee would not shame the familys name by transferring the responsibility to a subordinate. As the small party left the apple tree site and reached the appomattox river, lees horse traveler stopped to drink. Continued into the village behind us. And encountered Wilmer Mclean who was o...

Established the bargain that the white north and the white south would hold on to for generations. Despite the terrible cause, spite grant continued, quote, i do not question the sincerity of the si great mass of those who were great opposed to it. Sincerity. Indeed who could have doubted bted the sincerity of the confederacy, who had bled itself to death in pursuit of that cause. The confederacy was profoundly sincere. The soldiers were sincere in their longing to lead the United States. Sincer...