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Good morning. I want to welcome everybody to this hearing today. Today, our select subcommittee is a hybrid hearing as some members will appear in person and others may appear remotely via webex. Since members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attending this and other hearings in person should be wearing face masks. Now, i did not make these rules. Thats the attending physician rules. And after this meeting i will consult with the attending physician and other authorities, and will make a determination as to whether or not we should recognize people in the hearing who do not wear facemasks. I happen to have been born and raised as the 21st of next month, will have spent all 80 of my years in south carolina. So i know a little bit about rules and i know about and mores. So i will consult with them. As of today i will share with the authorities in the attending physician the exper ....
He never forgot, and he used to tell my brother and me how it felt watching this young man get loaded onto trip trains, knowing that many would never return home. After he died, many years later, i received an outpouring of letters and photographs from some of the men he had trained if it served and returned home, and built lives and families of their own. I just couldnt believe that that experience, being yelled at by my father, was so formative for them it and i was so glad to hear, frankly. I saw the same sense of dedication and duty when, as first lady and then as senator from new york, i visited with servicemembers and their families all over the world. Then i was honored to serve on the Armed Services committee and to work closely with men and women throughout this building, and in particular with secretary mchugh who would become a great partner with me on the half of our military bases and personnel in new york. And what w ....