Died in the meuseargonne area, but there were also some civilians and other soldiers brought from other areas. Yes, but basically, most of the soldiers here died during the meuseargonne. It was grammatical for that battle. It was over 26,000 soldiers killed, 96,000 wounded, more or less. Almost half a percent of the soldiers are buried in that france cemetery. We have a few civilians, maybe we will see some graves later on. Especially nurses, people from the american red cross, ymca, graves we will see walking in the graveyard. The cemetery itself were graves consolidated from smaller cemeteries. When soldiers died in battle, they were buried in small cemeteries around the region. And then the American Government had made the decision that they would allow families to repatriate their loved ones after the war. About 60 70 of the families brought their bodies back to the u. S. The other roughly 30 remained behind and they were brought to the cemeteries that were now maintained by the ba
Amnesty. Here is a top spokesman at the State Department wrote on facebook in 2016. The largest threat to the u. S. National security are u. S. Cops. There is a temporary truce in chicago where teachers were told to show up or face punishment. Next two days the city and the Teachers Union tried to get back to the bargaining table. Brian coming in hot. If we were outside, we would be cold and snowy and wet. Not nearly as bad but then again i didnt have to plow it. It is snow has to stop where to two days almost like Groundhog Day. Steve it is Groundhog Day. Steve take a look, the crew is outside. They have all sorts of snow shovels and equipment. Brian it doesnt that look like fun though. The little plows lock like fun. Steve about 3 00 this morning i had the shovel out and i was actually clearing away to the driveway. All i had to too was about 15 feet to get to the driveway. Ainsley i bet that was so much fun. Steve oh my goodness, it weighs a ton. We wound up with 2 feet at our house
In the house of representatives, a lot going on today. If you want to find out more about the activity, go to our website at cspan. Org. We now take you to the house. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] rage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 17, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the ouse of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders fo
Saturn 9 rocket to accomplish the goals set by president kennedy less than 10 years earlier, to land the man on the moon before the end of the decade. As president kennedy said in his speech at Rice University in september, 1962, we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. There is no better explanation that captures the american spirit. We choose to take joint leaps. We choose to know the unknown. We choose to lead into the future. On july 20, 1960, just four days after the launch, the world listened and watched as the first steps were taken on the moon. Again, hundreds of millions of people across the world watched as history was made. Five times more nasa astronauts landed on the moon and returned home safely. President kennedys promise that our great democracy could achieve these hard things became a reality. As we watch those days in july, 0 years ago, dreams began to form. Every person watching the succes
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