after courageously charging up the hill to protect his fellow army rangers but that story didn't hold up he was really killed by friendly fire shot accidentally by his fellow soldiers and maybe the worst part about all of this was that this white washing of tillman story also hid what might be the most important part of his story he thought it. was a mistake he thought it was going to be a disaster and you know you don't in the army you're not supposed to talk about you could you not he posed to talk politics and pat didn't shut up you know he told everyone you encounter this war as he was in fact when tillman was redeployed to afghanistan in two thousand and four he began reading the anti-war activists noam chomsky in the last ten years was devastated so the. tillman told his mother he wanted to meet chomsky in person after he returned to the united states was there any solace in the story the military told you about how courageous had been oh of course but what's interesting is the story itself seems so contrived this soldier you know running up the ridge line firing at the enemy yo

postponed a week of games but tillman went further than that he joined the army rangers my great grandfather was a pro harbor and a lot of my family has given up i don't have is gone foreign wars and i really haven't done a damn thing this was the real deal a pro football player giving up a lucrative career to serve his country in the field of battle a true patriot and a true american hero the news of another american has refocused attention on the me of sacrifice and service the tillman who gave up a multi-million dollar contract in professional football has been killed pat tillman was dead his memorial service was aired on national television the army awarded him a silver star for his gallantry in action against an armed enemy they said tillman's convoy had been ambushed in afghanistan they said tillman charged up the hill to protect his men but was shot down by the taliban but there was only one problem it was a lie when he died in afghanistan on april twenty second two thousand and four the army told his family he'd been killed by enemy fire after courageously charging up a hill to prote

sitting there as they're trying to citizenship my friend from college she left law school joined the army rangers and with afghanistan i know many capel capless stories like that believe me the evil people people in the new american military could get jobs many other places. so you just heard he's a solution if there isn't a family is. and his family is going to sit with him when he joined under false the average the average military person needs to rely on the person who is left in his right in a foxhole in a firefight works fine and world that he doesn't and he doesn't want to do it great relying on people who are conscripted and we have the best military now precisely because they know that everyone you want to draw your world war two and the reason why it worked fine in world war two was because everybody in america knew that they had their kids but was on the line and so that damn well better be a real war that's really worth fighting that's not true that's a rewrite of history had the draft after that i mean this is not because everyone was in the military up in decided to go into world war

after retiring from the army rangers and raising a family, a gentleman by the name of homer nightstep went back to school and became a teacher and hired on at dayton schools. in his second year at kemp elementary, he was honored by the peers and his school as dayton's teacher of the year. two weeks later, he was laid off in a senior-based system. this is is not something that should happen if we put kids first. by the way -- just for the rest of the story, he actually went to a nice suburban school district where he continues to be an outstanding teacher. the loss of those urban youth who deserved that talent. we are also going to test teachers in chronically failing schools and second support innovative schools and follow california and colorado where the parents and the teachers are allowed to take over failing schools. compton, california, parents are exercising this as they speak. they were tired of miserable student results and tired of a district that simply and i quote a commission, state commission, "lacked any sense of urgency to improve their schools. "the tparents said enou

through his courageous actions on d-day as an army ranger, bud earned a distinguished service cross. bud's brave service was crucial to the success of d-day and left an impressive imprint on our nation's history as he was documented two best-selling books, "the greatest generation" and "the victors: eisenhower and his boys "-- and the men of world war ii." sergeant lomel passed away on march 1, 2011 at the age of 91. mr. runyan: leaving his family and our country with a proud legacy of honor and service. i am proud and humbled to have been able to call this incredible american a constituent. i ask you today to please rise with me in honor of sergeant leonard budlo -- "bud" lomel. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, california was ground zero of the foreclosure crisis. at 1.40% of all foreclosures nationwide were concentrated in the state of california. ms. bass: today in california, nearly one in eight homes is in

we include many forces of legend -- the green berets, seals, rangers, air force air commandos, army night stalker air yea to haves, pararescue jumpers, today's version of marine raiders and others. the active duty practice practif civil/military operations and military information support operations are also in our ranks. these are special operations careerists. but they're backed by a magnificent assortment of administrative, intelligence, communications, engineering, logistics and other specialists who serve in special operations units on a less permanent basis at our various headquarters. we also include over 300 representatives from at least 15 other agencies within and beyond the department of defense providing senior-level counsel and staff-level expertise that significantly broadens and deepens us. i am convinced that the forces we provide to the geographic combatant commanders are the most culturally-attuned partners, most lethal hunter/killers, and most responsive, agile, innovative and efficiently-effective advisers, trainers, problem solvers and warriors that any nation has to