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[ inaudible ] thank you for the opportunity to talk about the center and quite honestly the state i m very proud of, the state of indiana. we ve been around since 1989. we ve got 27 years of successfully linking community and academic expertise. our goals are to build capacity in a state s agency. the volunteer associations, the citizens of the state of indiana and so forth. we ve done a lot of work in emergency management, but the reason we ve been successful is not because uniquely of the resources in our center but because of the atmosphere that exists in the state of indiana. case in point, within indiana we ve had the privilege of working with the indiana department of homeland security to complete mitigation plans in close collaboration with the counties and cities and towns of the state of indiana. the approach we take is highly collaborative, so unlike many situations that we hear about where a plan is created and set aside on a shelf, if you would, which unfo ....
our time. recogniziining texas. mr. chairman, thank you very much, i am pleased from this moment of history to join my colleagues who have come together with a similar and very important purpose and that s to save lives. the ranking members on the committee dealing with crimes. we see tl after math over the years of a wrong policy. let me simply add to the record of startling facts. when an average day in united states, more than 650,000 opiate prescriptions are dispensed and 3900 people used non-prescription use of opiates. 78 people died from an opiate related deaths. $55 billion in health and social costs related to prescription opiate abuse each year and opiate poisoning. this conference committee is on the right direction. there are worthy bills. the problem is huge between 2014, almost half a million people died from drug over doses based on the statistic that i just read. also to fulfill our obligations for funding, i am glad to be a coresponsponsor of comm ....
beginning in 1907 when the u.s. army purchased the first military plane. this is about 30 minutes. this is the big picture, an official television report of the united states army, produced for the armed forces and the american people. now, to show you part of the big picture, here is master sergeant stewart quaid. in the fall of 1907, the united states army purchased from two bicycle mechanics named wright the first military plane. guaranteed to remain aloft for one hour, it carried two persons. at an airspeed of 40 miles per hour, it was light enough to be transported in an army wagon. 50 years have passed. the miracle of flight has become a commonplace reality. there seems to be no limit to aviation progress. this is the army s tribute to the pilots, the mechanics, the engineers, and the countless others who have given wings to man s dreams. this is the age of flight. the airy. today, air power is a dominant factor in the american defense program. far out f ....
it is really a great conference, something that really needed to be done in the country. i just said to a couple of people that the best memory is to write it down. and so, this important history, the people on this panel have been writing it down so that it will be preserved, not just for us, but for the next generation and the next generation. one german historian said that history always must be revised. it must always be rewritten, because even we in this generation cannot write the final part of the story. because new resources are coming up, new interpretations, and consequently we must keep working at the same topics and subtopics until we get it, and until we get it right. frederick douglas visited tennessee three times before he died in 1895. he came in 1873, 1882, and in 1892, 3 years before he died. he did not come to memphis in 1892 because of the riots. and massacres that took place. he had visited chattanooga, knoxville, nashville, as he did on his 1882 to ....
history always must be revised. it must always be rewritten, because even we in this generation cannot write the final part of the story. because new resources are coming up, new interpretations, and consequently we must keep working at the same topics and subtopics until we get it, and till we get it right. frederick douglas visited tennessee three times before he died in 1895. he came in 1873, 1882, and in 1892, 3 years before he died. he did not come to memphis in 1892 because of the riots. and massacres that took place. he visited chattanooga, knoxville, nashville, as he did on his 1882 tour. one of them asked douglas, what must we do after slavery? and better douglas said, frederick douglass said, we must learn or die. that is still true today. we have to learn our history, keep writing and rewriting it until we get it right. and we have to learn what has happened in the past in order to be able to govern ourselves in the present, and to plan for the future. so t ....