that's up next, so keep it here, and as always check out the website for the latest news online, that is aljazeera.com. the controversial over saving sergeant berghdal. blow back erupted over the trey. >> what this does is return five very dangerous people to the fight against america. and what it can mean for others being held. >> slender man, and how a ghoulish internet horror story allegedly inspired pro teen girls to a

vicious and terrifying attack. >> one suspect held the victim down while the others stabbed her 19 times. >> and is it rightsar mo sirens and jetny, a growing and often and good evening thank you for joining us. it's also overshadowing president obama's place that d day ceremonies in europe, where even as he honored contribution to

ending world war ii, he is dogged by questions about whether they lived -- we get details from america tonight, sheila mcvicker. >> senators arrive for a briefs last wednesday. the senators were shown an unreleased video received in january of a gaunt captive berghdal, reportedly pleading for help. proof they say of his poor health remarks point that the president stressed again today. >> we had a prisoner of war, whose health has deteriorated. and we with were deeply concerned about, and we saw an opportunity and we seized it. and i make no joys for that. >> and no joys for taking the decision without tempering congress before the prisoners were released. as required by law. with the president and his supporters insisting the doctrine of leave no soldier behind, trumps

worries over national security. that these five individuals that have been release willed soon return to the fight against america. >> one senator has said that the taliban threatened to kill berghdal if details of the deal were made public before his release. some accused him of desertion, echos in campaigns like this, an investigation reported that the soldier most likely walked away from his post. it also said he had walked off bases twice before, but returned each time after a few hours.

a detailed picture of the events that unfolded after he was discovered missing. reported be company missing shoulder after he did not show up for the local roll call, a full search was ordered. shadow, predator, guardrail, and case on rout to assist in search. a few hours later first sometimes guardrail reports pick up l.l.v.i., that's low level voice sent traffic, that indicates that an american soldier is talking and is looking for someone who speaks english. indicates the american soldier has camera. all operations will crease until missing soldier is found. then, confirmation. received intel that confirmed the capture of

a u.s. soldier. the the following night, black foot t.o.c. reports received a call from taliban stating that they wanted trade 15 taliban for the american. taliban will call back in ten minutes. the cables detail a number of military attacks, in their search for the missing man. he was recovered by special forces in eastern afghanistan last week after negotiations brokered by cat tar. he is recovering in a hospital in germany, where he is receiving medical and psychological treatment. will remain nor a year. his release is a sore point for the family of this man. it has been more than two years since i was taken prisoner. >> an american aid worker abducted in pakistan three years ago.

he needs to be with his family. he deserves to come home. >> and sergeant hometown in idaho has canceled the home coming celebration they say that things have gotten too controversial, and they are afraid they would be unable to handle the volume of people. >> and there are details now emerging about his time in captivity, and some indication that he may have had an opportunity to get away? >> there are reports that he may have tried to escape, on at least two occasions and have been successful in evading the taliban perhaps for several days at a time. the last attempt, he actually was out of captivity for two or three days until villagers turned him back over to the network. we with don't know very much about that, but one thing that does make clear, is any rescue attempt would have been very difficult, because after the escapes he was

very closely guarded and moves constantly, and there was a view they would have to strike up to 12 security locations held by the taliban inside pakistan at once. was he held as a prisoner of war? is. >> technically his status for the u.s. military was captured/missing. prisoner of war is a status that is confirmed upon a prisoner being held by a hall tis force by a signatory to the geneva convention. technically the taliban are not a country, they are not a signatory to the convention, so he was listed by the u.s. military as captured or missing. >> is it, though, in your view, as a military man of long tradition.

this is a matter of tradition, not a matter of law. >> i think that's the going in assumption. obviously those are ridiculous hypotheticals but in general, we go in with with the assumption, that we will bring every soldier, airman, and marine back. >> no matter what they might have done or what they may be suspected or doing? >> no, that's for a court of law to judge, that's not for us to leave them behind, to have somebody else judge. >> and this motion of not

negotiating with terrorists, can you sort of -- why that would be? the premise here is really that you don't want to give them incentive to do it again. >> sure. but the fact remains that's a great sound bite, over the years we have. we never would have gotten the hostages back from beirut. so yes, is our preference that we don't negotiate with with terrorists but every time it is considered on a case by case basis. there are at least two other americans who are being held captive either in pakistan or afghanistan, in that area. one is an american aid worker we with talked about him in the piece, and the other is a young american woman, who was traveling in afghanistan with her canadian husband. when she was -- and she was also pregnant. >> and raising other questions about what our

responsibilities and obligations are to them as well. we appreciate your being here, thank you very much. >> when skipping school can send a kid directly to jail, how getting tough on kids to support their education can backfire. and drive students away. fault lines investigations the school to prison pipeline. also ahead, the ghoulish slender man. and how a perverse loyalty to this mythical mean nearly led to murder. >> yes, she says she is having trouble breathing. she said she was stabbed multiple times. >> blurring the line between myth and fantasy, and how it can result in real life violence, our report is ahead.

in rescent years we focused a lot of attention on schools and helping kids to stay in them. so called zero tolerance policy. fall off the straight and narrow, petty crime, or just too much bad behavior cannot only get a kid tossed out of school, it can send hem directly to jail. the school to prison pipeline. >> for many students the journey to prison can begin at the start of the school day. in texas if you are late three times that is considered an unexcused absence. under state law, the student with ten unexcuses absences faces fines up to $500 a warrant to show up to truancy court. if the student can't pay

the fine by the time they turn 17 they can face time in prison. jennifer torres is in her last year of high school. she owes more than $7,000 in fines for truancy. she said she was late to school in part because she worked nights as a janitor to help support her family. is other night i didn't leave for work until 1:00 o'clock. >> i still have to shower yeah, what time are you supposed to be to school. >> i wake up at 5:00 to get ready, so it isn't that much sleep. >> can you walk me through how many classes that you have missed or how many absences. >> a little over 100. but it was in the last four years. >> over 100 over four years. >> yeah, they came to school, they pulled me out of class and got me, and they told me to come surfthem, and i was

surprised they said they had two warrants out for me, and they said truancy, if you are trying to get somebody to go to school, why take them out of school, why put them in jail to miss more school. i think it is point less. she is doing community service to discharge the debt, if she doesn't she may have to spend the summer in jail. >> we try to work hard. for pay bills. house, pay taxes. 7,000-dollars is crazy. >> statistics show that zero tolerance policies target the most disadvantaged youth. black students are more than three times as

likely to be twoed orb expelled as their white peers. hispanics and those with disability face hearter punishment. for things that use to mean a trip to the principal's office. we are seeing an other reaction to childish behavior, we are seeing racial profiling in our schools in our hallways of young people of color, who seem to be threated so all of these kind of overreactions push us to have these policies and practices in schools that lead to push young people out, pushing them into the juve tennis justice system, and the criminal justice system.

14-year-old girl charged with discorderly conduct. small pairing life in lunge box gets north carolina student suspended. one teenager student arrested for pouring milk on his girlfriend, more than 1,000 ticket were issued to primary school children. several districts ticket add six-year-old at least once. critics say resorting so quickly to the criminal justice system alienates students from the school system. makes them more likely to drop out, and end up in prison. we are in north houston

to meet a young man, theo is the man's name, and he has all sorts of run ins starting in work. theo holmes is 19. he servinged three years in a juvenile facility. mostly because of tickets he received from cops at his school. >> i think my first two was miner possession for tobacco, and after that i was like man, what y'all going to do to me. i have a ticket, how many tickets $300 fine, i'm not paying it. hi says his mother kicked him out at the age of 12, and his father was not in his life, the punishments didn't help him. he ended in juvenile detention, now when he is ready to get his life

together, his record stands in his way. can you tell me how having the record effected you? >> it effects me a whole bunch, because i can't even get a job. i want to do international business, but at the same time, i can't get nobody to even hear me talk, or hear my story. they don't want to hear me out. they are looking at me like you proposal a hoodlum. >> when you go back and think about where it started is it marry to say that it didn't start with the infractions in school that you got ticketed for. >> it had been started, in texas, if you are a minority, in the state of texas ain't nothing for you. you come from poverty, doesn't matter if you are white, black, pink, blue, ain't nothing for you. wasn't nothing to help us prepare for the real world. help us prepare for jail.

>> school to prison pipeline, joins us now. and when people hear these stories kidding get in trouble for text messages or dress codes when you think about the impact, does even the education acknowledge that maybe there's overkill in this? >> yeah, definitely. one teacher that we spoke so in particular she was very outspoken in saying that her piers, her clears fellow teachers are too quick to pick up the phone and call the school resource officer, a police officer, to deal with an unrule student rather than deals with these problems on their own. and of course, once a young person is involved with the system, it means they are less likely to finish high school, and more likely to have other problems.

at some level wasn't it important to institute these rules. >> when you think about the reason the school resource is there, it is in response to the violence that's taken place. the question becomes well, what happened the rest of the time, when there is apt mortal danger. is a lot of activists oif zero tolerance policies argue that these miner infractions can used to result in a trip to the principal's office, now end up with a citation, possibly even an arrest. when you look at zero tolerance policies in particular, there's a growing recognition among educators, even among the people who work at the jewel nile facilities that they are not

effective in turns young people into productive members of society, what they too often result in is creating a larger and larger prison population or population in the juvenile detention facilities. the gains of richmond. >> 17 people responsible for 70 pest of 45 had had and 200 plus fireman assault. wow. we with can wrap our arms around that. ifky just engang the 17 people in a different way, that could have a significant impact on the narrative. of what is really going on in the city of richmond. >> tough love and cold hard cash, a controversy

strategy aimed at unlocking the vicious cycle of gun violence on the streets of northern california. america tonight's michael oky begin as two part look at what works to stop the gang land attacks and who would with oppose it. ahead after the break, creepy pasta, and the slender man. a bizarre internet myth that police say inspired two preteen girls to a nearly murderous attack.

now a snapshot of headlines. fire ripped threw -- amon the injured 23 firefighters and two young children who are dropped out of a second floor window into the arms of their neighbors. the fires under investigation. g.m. releases a findings of an interim report investigating the company's response to faulty ignition switches c.o. told a crowd of more than 1,000 g.m. employees that a pattern of incompetence and neglect is to blame for the long delayed recall. faulty ignition switches have been linked to 47 crashes and at least 13 deaths. the company says it will compensate those who are harmed. a whole town in new brunswick on lock down at police hunt for a gunman

they are calling a cop killer. man hunt began wednesday night after the suspect shot five officers three of them died. police say they have now spotted the shooter, in and around a wooded area, last seen wearing military fatigues and is armed with two high power rifled a cross bow and fives as well. a developing story in the northwest, a shooting spree at seattle pacific university, seattle fire department reports four were hospitalized and at least one man has died. now details now on a moitive. a pair of 12-year-old girls facing the possibility of 65 years behind bars. for attempting to kill their own friend, stabbing her 12 times. and her live, pancreas, and stomach. strange details of the attack unfold, we are learning more about the fictional character who inspired it all. america tonight explains how a child's fantasy

world made a nearly deadly collision. with reality. it's just a computer game, creepy sounds and a standard hoar error movie ending, but this week the game and the myth it is linked on. yes, she says she is having trouble breathing. she said she was stabbed multiple times. >> yeah. >> the clothing has glove on it. i don't know if i should roll her over and check her or not. why don't you want to talk? >> the 9-1-1 caller on this recording is trying to help a blood covered girl. police say the 12-year-old's own friends stabbed her 19 times during a weekend sleepover. they left her to die in the woods. >> once we located the two girls, they quickly became apparent that they were the suspects. >> the preteen suspects are charged as adults

with attempted first degree homicide, and they are accused of plotting the murder for mondays. >> according to records they felt compelled to kill, because of this. an online horror character called slender man. he is a tall, thin, face less multitentacled figure who preys on young children, the girls say they wanted to please the fictional character and kill in order to prove he was real. and that they were worthy of them. >> this is classic fox lore. in folklore you find there's something called proof, and proof is when characters and people prove their worth, they prove their allegiance to a character to a cause. yes, i am willing to stand out there and see if a scary witch comes out and attacks me, and you see this exact same theme in the slender man. where the characters they had to prove to themselves and to each other, that they were willing do go ahead with

this. >> what makes this case so mist fying is that despite the photos givenning slender man the gloss of authenticity, he is nothing more than an internet n exme. born way back in 2009. any villain that doesn't have an identity, is inherently scarier. that's why many of the classic horror films they wear masks, you didn't see their face, and that's one reason that slender man is so scary to people. >> and because of the internet's power to give life to legends through photos and an ever evolving narrative, this fair less and baseless boogie man felt real to the two girls. so real, that according to court documents they planned to go and live with slender man at a manage in a nearby park. part of the reason they are so powerful, is they are collective. this isn't p just one person writing about something 20 years ago, these are living

breathing active bits of fox lore. and people contribute to them. it's the result of hundreds and thousands of people contributing. blogs ideas youtube videos so it takes on a life of it's own experts warn of the dangers of exposing children with mental issues with internet sites that blur the line between reality. >> if you have a kid that is prone to violence, the they are watching violent media, or scary media, kit blur the line about what is appropriate and what and not appropriate. in real life. >> there's a lot of research about violence entertainment and media, and it is a factor if kids are immersed in a culture where they are watching violent media

all the time. joni works for common sense media, a nonprofit that helps protect kids in an increasingly digital world. >> what does a parent need to do to make sure they are still the primary source of parenting? >> you have to watch your kids and try to take some control. and limit screen time, pay attention to what they are doing. i think it is a real conversation starter. and incident like this, really can be a teachable moment. >> according to court documents the girls told police they learned about slender man on the website creepy pasta. slender man story is still on the site, along with a note expressing sorrow for the families involved in the stapping. >> the problem isn't venter man itself, the problem is people a hand full of people who take it too far, people who have mental illnesses, who have schizophrenia for example, and they have a hard time distinguishing fantasy

from reality, so it misses the point to blame slender man, or a man weapon site, and they this caused it, no, that didn't call it. it's individuals that are responsible for these actions. >> people who have identified themselves as the victim's parents have posted messages on line, that their caughtser healing and now walking without support. as for the girls accused, the bail is set at $500,000. each. mentioner tonight joins us now, of course, we are relieved to hear that the victim seems to be recovering, but at this point, looking at these two who are the suspects charged as adults. >> yeah, it may seem like a lot as a 12-year-old to be facing adult charges in the state of wisconsin the law says if you are 10, or older, and you are facing a fist degree murder charge with intent to commit homicide, that you are now first to be charged in the criminal court, before you even are facing anything in a

juvenile court. >> that's remarkable. now, it also seems here that we have seen quite a bit of the interrogation, what resulted in the interrogation of the girls, exposed oen the internet, and in local media as well. this is disclosed by police, and it seems remarkable that they were allowed to say so much. >> and what ink spired them to do this. >> but gave their waiver at the age of 12? >> yes. they are supposed to notify a parent within a family miner, but that can be interpreted in various ways. whether they think parents may be involved or evidence may be come bromized. but they are snowed to do it in a timely manner, also if they ask to talk to the parents they give them contact with their

parents. the other thing is these type of intire gases is they must be recorded opinion so if there is questions right now, which i imagine there's a lot, how this went down, how it is able to happen. natural for following up on this for us. >> after a break, madman, a growing movement of men and their anger with women. >> the techniques are ridiculous, and by and large, very ma johnnyic, very antiwoman essentially. >> vicious voices in the man atmosphere, a look at the frustrations and the fear they will lead to more violence.

tension day as man with three handguns. 22-year-old elliot roger died that night, he shot himself in the head, but not before killing six people, and terrorizing the community. his writings and on line

videos he cast himself as a lonely outsider, unable to make social connections especially with women. which made us wonder whether he was a outcast in a world of easy sex, or the representative of a growing and angry trend among young men. here is correspondent brian rooney. it looks so easy, hand some young men, and beautiful young women on the night. f night life looks good, but so men don't know how or where to start. this is andrew chen. >> oh yeah, killer night. >> out for an etching at a los angeles nightclub. he is something of an expert at mealing women. >> i thought definitely coming here for. >> but he wasn't always so confident. he had to learn it. >> we couldn't follow andrew into the club, so we tack a afternoon walk with him in hollywood to see what he could do. >> what might you say to

a woman now that you never would before? >> if i do find someone attractive, whereas before i would have thought about and it then probably walked right past, and then hated myself and regretting not doing it. >> it didn't take long. >> pleasure to meet you. >> are you feeling a little -- >> awesome tonight. >> i don't know, i kind of have to tell you something that's really -- i feel like you should know this. >> okay. >> i absolutely absolutely, love pineapples. >> they just met, but he is holding her hands. they hug. he gives her a playful spin. >> let's get this figures out. >> what could he possibly have said to her. >> he said i like your shirt. i am such a sucker for compliments on clothes. like for someone to notice what i put on

makes me happy. >> that was all it took. >> there's a lot of yourses that teach a man how to do this. anted drew was with trained by a company called the a chemical safety boardcs of attraction, which specializing in teaching asian men tow how break the ice with women. >> everybody smile, yeah keep on smiling, you look worried. the foundser j.t. ton. sometimes known as the asian playboy, who never kiss add girl until he was 20, and now teaches guys to be successful men. >> you are shifting your eyes. don't do that, hey, quick question, you are so pretty, and you are like even more gorgeous, oh my god you i love you, notice i am really paying attention. he is teaching them how to break the warier of loneliness. >> striking up conversation, projecting that connecting with her. and it's about practical

application, i think of certain basic psychological principles. >> certainly the sexual freedom of the current age can be intimidated. out there in the highly sexualized world of the nightclubs, some men just don't know how to talk to a woman. >> i don't know why you girls aren't attract today me, butly punish you all for it. >> elliot roger is evidently a young man with serious problems some mental some social. he casts health as a outsider, unsuccessful with women, and angry about it. >> for the last eight years of my life, ever since i hit puberty, i have been forced to endure an existence, of loneliness, rejection, and unfulfilled desires. all because girls have never been attracted to me. >> roger posted angry messages on sites that cater to men who feel like outcasts in what looks to them like a free wheeling world of dating.

>> i think a lot of men are lonely. >> karla is a clinical therapists who works with men. >> the playing field has been levels since the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, even medically the birth control pill really allowed women with for the first trial to have a sexual identity and choose for themselveses what they like, how they identify themselveses the type of people they are interested in. >> that changing playing field could help, plain the growth of the pickup movement, spread through books like the game, and like minded websites. there's avaty of approaches. from the je mentally style, to sites like real social diem thattics that says it will make girls beg to sleep with you. excuse me, come meet my girlfriend. this is the found ironic of rsd, picking up a young romanian tourist. >> i am not your girlfriend. >> pretend. >> this is the beginning, you don't know yet. >> i am saying this to your perfect 10, that's

all you are. >> this is the technique calling neging insulting the girl to make her like you. can you guess her reaction. >> that's all you are. >> sort of thing has been criticized asthma soldier mystic the kind of hatred of women. even the southern poverty law center, which normally tracks neonazi maz lish shas and organized haters has come to look at the pickup movement in a similar way. never ridiculous, and by and large have misogynistic, very antiwoman. the one with that comes is mind is what they call negginging. like negging. and what that means is saying something really unming santo a woman, like your hair looks terrible today. and the idea is this

somehow make as woman feel vulnerable, and according to these people, makes her more likely to agree to have a relationship or sex with with the man who says it to her. forever alone. for men who think they are not making nit a world of easy sex. another is called love shy, involuntary sell bats they call themselves. on one forum, elliot roger described himself as involuntarily sell built. but he also struck out at the pick up artist, their followers and the women who wouldn't go out with him. i think the social shift is the focus on the other. so instead of developing themselves, and figures that out, there's the conquest of the other, and to me that's very emotionally lonely.

and emotionally sad. and that can promote object fighter case of those you are looking to have sex with. sometime on a week end night it looks like that. andrew chen that's no what it is for him. he says the a chemical safety board cs of attraction changed his life, made him a better and more interesting man. so much so, that he now teaches the course himself. and lives it. >> so that when i do meet the girls of my dreamsly have a full arsenal, and not go back home and say damn, if only i knew how to do it, if only i could portray myself better. >> you will be ready. >> yeah, hopefully. that's the idea, right. >> brian rooney, al jazeera, los angeles. and an expert on masculinity and social

inequality, some people are concerned about making a connection between a very very troubled individual like elliot roger, and this man-sphere as it were, is there a fair comparison to make here? >> of course there's a fair comparison. if you look at the killings of this type that have been happening over the last 20 years they are all done by men. and they are all men who are angry, and express anger, to their victim, as a class. not just as an individual, but as a class of women. for instance, or of gay people, or of whatever fill in the blanks. and they are also white men predominately who are doing these shootings of this particular type, so they take all kinds of forms but they are generalized to a population, the victims are very specific who end up dying. >> in this man-sphere world, the kinds of conversations that we have seen, online, about this, is there a demographic that you can see? >> a demographic, in

terms of the perpetrators? young men often times are the perpetrators and then -- we talk a lot about emotional disturbance, and mental illness, those are often times contributed factors they are preexisting conditions. but those conditions yet fumed by an environment that they end up belonging to or participating in like the websites or the pickup cull sure which teaches young guys and men that they deserve to have sex, they just have to manipulate better, they have to use them, as opposed to how engage them. >> i can't help to notice the connection here, between the man-sphere, and also the slender man stabbings it seems those are close society of the internet, sort of echo chambers of these horrible conversations. >> i think you are right. and there is a connection. and it speaks to our human vulnerable. and i think in both

sitwares we are describing a system that becomes very closed. those girls are very engaged in that particular slender man culture, they don't -- the explore other ways of being, they don't talk to other people about their fantasies their plans, and in the same way, that elliot rogers was very closed in, he associated only with people on websites and primarily through website whose agreed with him. and legitimized his behavior, who didn't challenge him, so that he could externalize his plan without feeling like anybody would stop him. and the girls obviously has nobody stopping them, or questioning them, because they didn't disclose, very close systems. appreciate your being with us to talk about that toxic echo chamber as it were, indiana unit of pennsylvania thank you for being with us. >> thanks a lot. >> and ahead in our final thoughts of this hour, remembering the wasps and

never forgetting that they served too with with flying colors, women of war, next. vé

>> al jazeera america. finally tonight, the ally troops storm the beaches of normandy, and launch a full scale attack that became the largest invasion by sea ever, that day d dade, changed the course of world war ii and of course our history. on the eve of d day, we take a look a group of pilots that may not have been fighting that day, but were a vital part of the effort. here is america's tonight.

ask unlukely figure draws a appreciative crowd. >> and the best instruction you can get. but she too flew for her country in wartime, and 91 years old, still proudly in uniform. the very first women to fly for the military, the wases pes men air force service pilots. >> i guess we all were. >> this is the plane the piloted during world war ii. a bowing steerman. only a few of them survive, along with a hand full of the wasp whose flew them during the war. >>

♪ along came a pilot." >> i think he started at the end instead of the beginning. >> their voice as bit shaky now, but their songs are seared into the memories forged during the time they flew together, a time when their country was under attack. everybody at that day and age, wanted to do their part. >> once i heard about the wasps this is something that if i'm accepted that i can do. i wanted to do something for my country, and i wanted to fly too. >> more than 25,000 applied when one so many male pilots overseas the army air said it would consider women pilots. >> women's air force service pilots.

>> only 1,830 were with accepted to begin training on a dusty airfield in sweet water texas. >> it was pretty tough. and it's not that anyone can't learn to fly, because anyone can learn to fly. it's just that some people need a little bit longer time than others. and those that could not live up to the timetable of the army air core, went by the wayside. >> only 1,074 wasps would earn their silver wings. at first, the young female pilots flew right into the face of sexual stereotyping. >> the little blond on the right, with her hair bleached by the sun, you or i may judge by other standards. >> a lot of skepticism, it was the male ego that was here, and here these young girls coming by and proving they can fly just as well as the men. >> and they were sent to

a b 26 school to be checked out. and the male pilot that was supposed to check them out, stood in front of them and said i'm not teaching any damn women how to fly. well, he had to. it was an order. but one of the women got even with him, she married him. >> even the commanding general henry happen arnold carryingening nod women pilots were a success. >> if there ever was a doubt, in anyone's mind, that women with can become skillful pilots, the wasped have disspelled that doubt. >> graduation daymeins they are grown up. >> the army air core became so eager it arranged the ever this cover story in life magazine. now the wasps were glamorized as fly girls. on the cover is a young girl wearing braiding looking young and innocent, sitting on the wing of the plane, and it inspires the people of

the country to we are really in this war now. >> but their work was hardly glamorous. the wasps tested all kind f of fighters and bombers. they ferried planes across the country, and they towed targets so the male fighter pilots could practice with live ammunition. >> that is one of the most dangerous missions. these are young people being trained to shoot antiaircraft guns. they weren't always that accurate. sometimes they hit the plane rather than the target. 38 died in the line of duty. >> when a wasp died flying did she get military honors in. >> no. >> the resentment lingers. >> the parents had to pay for the funeral, we did not get a flag. we did not have the star at the window saying that somebody was in the military. woe were pretty much

unknown. >> do you feel you help win the war? >> yes. we were with one of the units that helped. we with did everything at home that nobody took care of, we did. did you lose your jobs because men wanted them? >> absolutely. >> we with were with win withing the war, by 1944, way didn't need as many pilots overall. and the idea of women replacing pilots instead of releasing pilots was unacceptable. >> for nearly three decades after the war, the wasps were largely forgotten, shoved into the back pages. they had to fight for the government to even acknowledge their service. and finally, in 1977, congress officially

recognized the wasps as veterans of world war ii. >> and this is you here? >> and then in 2010, president obama sign add proclamation from congress awarding all of them living and dead, it's highest honor, the congressional gold medal. >> it is about time that the world knew there were women pilots who flew in world war ii. we with were eliminated from the history books, and it wasn't until 30 years later that our files were finally opened. >> and know when bee hay do was honored along air force general who flew f 16 combat missions. the legacy of the wasps is clear. i field extremelile fortunate that i can be a fighter fie lot, and i

think it is because of their dead case, and their service in the time of need. >> the wasps are proud of the path they paveed and the obstacles they overcame, they notice crimination in the military has not ended although their times were different. >> we were protected because we with took our training in an isolated airport, no planes could make an emergency landing so they just protected us from any event that would happen during our training. >> and they are disturbed by recent allegations of sexual harassment of women. >> they are facing two enemies. facing enemy in the front, and facing another one at their back. i don't think the military has solved the problem of harassment. i think it is a disgrace that they haven't solved it. >> guantanamo now in the

autumn of their lives at least they are getting the recognition and respect that was so long denied them. >> thank you, dear. >> thank you so much. >> hue many missions did you do. >> bee and her fellow fly girls are at long last truly stars of the show. al jazeera, oshkosh wisconsin. >> indeed they are. that's it for us this hour on america tonight, friday combating gun violence, in one of the deadliest cities with cash, getting rivals to put down their guns and paying for peace. correspondent will tell us about that controversial program, for now, good night, we will have more of america tonight, tomorrow.

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