You some flavor of this rather unusual bunch of american veterans. Then i will ask a few of these veterans to join me on the stage, and i will introduce them at that time. I will ask them a few questions to jumpstart the conversation, but at some point, i will just turn it over to you all and let you have a conversation with these pretty incredible guys. , is aok, project 9 result of a lot of research from around the country, and i will not go into that. But i was lucky enough to be able to interview several of the remaining veterans from that campaign of so long ago in burma. Pretty remarkable bunch. They were started by a guy named arnold. Ld happ some of you may have heard of him. A guy namedsted by churchill. Winston, i think, was his first name. Let me take you through some of these photos, and we will see what happens. I think i remember how to operate this. By the way, there were some of these flyers out there. I do not know if you all got any. If you did not, i do not know what
We begin with breaking news coming out of gaza where there are celebrations in the streets. After 50 days and more than 2000 deaths on both sides there is now hope for peace in the region. Both hamas and israel say they have agreed to a longterm ceasefire, andrew similar monday is in gaza. The sky behind me has been certainly moved in essence by the iron dome weapon, the israelis use to counter rockets, at least three rockets have been fired and used to intercept them. We have had a lot of military activity intensifying over tuesday. At least half a dozen palestinian deaths. There has been a lot of mortar fire across the border into israel from the palestinian factions, at least 100 rockets fired. Now whether this is just part of the patent there has been ten ceasefires so far. There is, in fact, more hope here or not, it would appear there is more hope because it would see that this time there is an agreement to stick to the script. That there is going to be a phase process in which t
Than it has. So i dont think theyre going to use chemical weapons. The fear is, though, if the regime if the opposition gains the upper hand, if the regime is on its last legs will they want to go down in flames or will they want to launch a chemical attack against israel, for instance, desperately trying to turn a domestic conflict into an arab israeli war that will take the pressure off them for a little bit, coe aless the people around israel and soing for. Thats the dooms day scenario. Wonderful, thank you so much for being here. [applause] this event took place at the 17th annual book festival in austin, texas. For more information, visit i was working for general Nick Nicholson doing really cool things, supporting my country. Maybe i should write a book. Really . Compared to ben wagner . Really . Compared to jacob salvi as an f18 pilot. Mehgan barley. So the stories in this book were exceptional and i knew that my role as class president 2002 i could connect the dots and bring th
The way advanced appropriations work. I support that and the frustration i have here is the billion dollars we spent. Last year about this time chairman remembers this very well, where we couldnt have an integrated Electronic Health record where the va and dod we flushed a billion dollars and still cant make it work. Thats something that i think this is my sixth year here. I cannot understand in todays technology why a veteran Service Member cant lead and electronically transfer their record. It hasnt been explained to me. It is coming down. I salute the secretary on that. He has a real commitment to that. The two things that i really am passionate about are Homeless Veterans. I think its heartbreaking when you see a veteran sleeping under a bridge that honorably served this country. We had the hud vouchers and that has come down. I salute general shinseki for that. Thats one of our problems at home. Weve got to work on a place to house Homeless Veterans and people to go ahead and get
Request i want to thank you, mr. Chairman, for allowing me to ask that question in case i have to leave. Thank you. Senator heller. Thank you for your testimony and everybody thats here today. Its good to see you here. At 4 30 this afternoon i have the secretary coming into my office and im going to ask him a lot of questions. Im going to ask him obviously about the veterans backlog issue and progress if any are being made. The issue of lack of communication between my office and reno will be another question that im going to ask and hopefully get a good answer for. But there are other questions that you might think that i should ask him. Are there any questions, if you were talking to the secretary today, what question would that be, and im going to take notes and this is your chance to advocate. I wouldnt presume, sir, to tell you what to ask the secretary, although the secretary is an Airborne Ranger like me, so he is my friend. He has told me that he will reduce the backlog by 2015