i attended the funeral yesterday of andy long in conway, arkansas, and met both families. the long family is a military family. his great grandfather served, his grandfather served, his father is a retired marine warrant officer. his mother served and is a veteran and she was on the parking lot waiting to give him a ride home when the shooting began. his brother is in the military today and will be heading to iraq this summer. a family tradition for this family is that the father prepares a letter to give to the son when he deploys. yesterday andy's father, retired marine daris long read the following letter to his son. he had these ideas in mind to give to his son and put them down in writing. the letter was placed in the casket yesterday at the funeral. this is the letter that he wrote to his son. dear andy, let me start by telling you how proud your mother and i are of you in your choice to serve this conterrorism the profession of arms is not an easy job. it's not 9 to 5. you won't often get a choice to do what you want when, you want to do something, or voice your opi

on june 11 the general james conway, dawn of the u.s. marine corps will be here.there should be interesting, stan kasten, president of the washington nationals will be here. i don't know if they will put chicken wire in front. june 26, robert chairman of the financial accounting standards board will adjust regulatory reform of the financial markets. and secondly, if you will mine coming up here as is our tradition we like to present to with a traditional npc coffee mug. >> thank you. >> and one final question and that is a simple one -- to what newspapers do you currently subscribe? [laughter] >> i subscribe to the new york times because again it is delivered in baltimore for about the same price as the baltimore sun but is still has some news event. so what are you going to do? >> well, let's offer a great round of applause to david simon. [applause] i like to thank you all for coming today and for those listening out like to think national press club is staff members of melinda cook, pat nelson, joanne booze and howard rothman for helping to organize today's lun

upcoming speakers, on june 11th general james conway, the commandant of the u.s. marines corps will be here. on june 25th, stan cass ton, president of the washington nationals will be here. i don't know if they're going to put chicken wire in front but we'll see what happens. june 26th. robert herz chairman of the financial accounting standards board will address -- financial markets. secondly if you wouldn't mind just coming up here as is our tradition we'd like to present you with the traditional m.p.c. cough -- n.p.c. coffee mug. >> thank you very much. >> one final question. that is a simple one. to what newspapers do you currently subscribe? [laughter] >> i subscribe to the "new york times." and again, it's delivered in baltimore for about the same price as the "baltimore sun." but it still has some news in it. so what are you going to do? >> that's great. well, let's offer a great round of applause for david simon. thank you. [applause] i'd like to thank you all for coming today or listening at home. i'd like to thank national press club members -- for helpi

army private william andrew long of con way, arkansas -- conway, arkansas. last week, mr. president, he was laid to -- laid to rest in north little rock. he was buried with full military honors an awarded the army commendation medal and army good conduct medal. private long was a loving son and brother and a friend whose life was tragically cut short on june 1st, in a senseless attack outside of the army-navy career center in little rock, arkansas. private quinten azugula was also injured in the attack. our thoughts and prayers are with him and we hope he makes a very speedily recovery. mr. president, private long had recently finished army training and sent to deploy to south korea. he was recruited from the army -- he was at the army recruiting office on that fateful day because he had volunteered to tell others with -- about his experience in the united states military. known to his friends and family as andy, private long will always -- always be remembered by all of us -- all of them for his boundless energy, his keen intelligence, his infectious smile and his great s