he has the first corps following him. it are able to advance a couple miles away from the river, enough for the army to get across and camp out. coming down the middle road is the second corps, under command of gouverneur k boren. this had been hancock haas -- hancock 's corps. warren is rewarded with temporary command. he is a rising star in the army. there are rumors going about it that if meade needs to be replaced, warren is the guy. he is going to get his men across after building the trussle. leading the next column is henry prince. he is not having a good time. he gets to the bank so late because he is late getting out of camp. he decides he will do a personal reconnaissance, it takes him an hour. he decides, i guess this is it after all. he gets his men across. he is starting down the hallway, he decides to take a turn and discovers he is deep within the bowels of the enemy. sounds like a proctologist's nightmare. he -- nightmare. [laughter] he will have to double back three miles to get himself back on a road. th

general david berger and the sergeant major of the marine corps, troy black.hank you. [applause] let us also show our profound appreciation to the 2019 grand marshal's of the parade who have served in world war ii, korea, vietnam, the gulf war and iraq. this morning is more than 30,000 patriotic americans lined the streets of manhattan, we carry on a noble tradition that began one century ago. in 1919, the people of this city filled block after block to welcome home general pershing and is 25,000 american soldiers after victory in world war i. before, many of those soldiers had boarded ships not far from here at hoboken port, more than 4 million americans boarded -- supported the great war and more than 116,000 made the ultimate sacrifice. dayhe 11th hour of the 11th of the 11th month in 1918, the armistice was declared and the war had come to an end and the allies achieved a great victory. every year -- every year since on november 11, we have shared our nation's deepest praise and gratitude to every citizen who is worn the uniform of the american army, navy,

we have mentioned division versus the corps. jones division versus tauren wells corporate we have some of those same confederate men in johnson's division taking on not one but two federal corps. every time i talk about echoes, i'm sure my friend who writes this series on our blog, i'm sure he goes, i am teaching him something. after nightfall comes across, johnson is able to extricate himself and get across mine run. mine run is a mile to the layer of the intersection we have been talking about. the guy in charge of this section of the confederate forces decides he will fall back. all they confederates pullback. meade morning of the 28, feels ready to advance. he has his line connected, finally connected. he pushes forward to find no confederates. he pushes forward a little more. he finally gets within sight of the stream and they see on the defensives formidable position the confederates have taken. they have fallen back and started digging in. we think about the formidable confederate position at fredericksburg. the way down

a south korean corps. many historians judge almond tactically for his abilities, but few addressed the challenges he faced in korea, such as the mission, thef the inhospitable terrain and the inadequate forces available. war the chinese entered the and sent the u.s. army into retreat, almond mounted one of in largest evacuations history, evacuating over 100,000 and and korean soldiers marines in addition to another refugees in one of the largest evacuations as i history. all of this happened, of course, after chosen had already claimed the lives of hundreds of and marines. almond's 10th corps joined the army where he quickly gained the respect of -- suited his style perfectly, and he called almond his best corps commander. >> almond's final military assignment was as war college indelibleeft an impression on that institution and many of the curriculum and development ideas that almond brought to the war college are place today. he was always a student of his craft. death, his views have -- he is now often

the first army corps crossed into antietam creek. later that night, the 12th army corps would cross over into antietam creek and the battle would begin with attacks and to the left flank of the confederate army of northern virginia. if these are two boxers, the union army is opening the battle jabs.ight wing test lee's left, knowing all the while, mcclellan wants to launch a right hook into the left blank. while these attacks are underway with the confederates diverging their attention northward, mcclellan wants to send an attack across on the southern end of the field hoping a hopefully weekend confederate right flank. it is a battle fought in two phases. boneshing north of the still turnpike, the northern phase of the battle. everything south is the southern phase of the battle. it thatif we look at way, it makes more sense to discern what mcclellan's thinking was during the battle and thus it was on september 16, union forces start moving into case. -- into place. there was firm astonishing. cavalry and forces in the east woods ou

i don't want everybody to join the marine corps. because i mean -- i have three kids out of five i wouldn't want anywhere near the marine corps certainly teach kids how to read in the inner city and dig fire trails for the forest service. there are all kinds of service we can do and then i think we would start to get out of this problem. it's not just tiny -- it's a half of 1% of the population is carrying the burden. seven southern states account for more than half of the military. seven. we have 50. hello? and the other one that is damning is that if you take the top three deciles in terms of income, their neighborhoods, the higher earning neighborhoods compared to the bottom three deciles, and you would suspect, the bottom three deciles take more of the hits. in world war ii, it was 1.2 times the top three. by vietnam, it was 1.4 times. now it's 1.7 times. that's a very bad trend, that the poor kids are taking the hit, increasingly. is the republic at war? or are we just outsourcing it to the poor -- and i'm not talking about ghe

it small to go to the marine corps. too small to go to the army air corps. by an accident got into the u.s. army and was the most decorated soldier of world war ii. service, to me, is service. i quote oliver wendell holmes. someone who experienced the hell of antietam. four times as many people lost then the entire d-day campaign. people called upon to do extraordinary things. you can't put a price on it and you can't say who was the greatest. is great to reflect on everyone that has done the job. >> thank you for speaking with us today. it is a real honor. [applause] take your mug. on behalf of the national press club, i would like to thank all veterans for their service. thank you so very much. with that, we are adjourned. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] >> this veterans day monday on c-span at 11:00 a.m. eastern, laying the wreath at the tomb of the unknown for arlington national cemetery. 1989 n

there's only one flavor and the corps --he in a rein marine corps and army, we're fewly good at doingthings. one of them is blowing stuff up. we're not great at building stuff up. we're great at. it bothered me when i would see whoor military officials were geniuses like me who had a degree, worthce nothing in the military, talking about governance and infrastructure and rebuilding countries. really galled me to no end and i thought until we get to the administration is going to implement the right people for the right job for the politicalon, our power -- do you see any senators or congressmen going over to iraq or afghanistan saying this how you build a congress? no. anyone from wal-mart or home depot or google going howoughfare to say this is you build infrastructure and build mega-stores of commerce creates throughput and money? no. they won't risk their bottom support our national security. that's way too crazy of a crazy, right, it just might work, right, brother? what if there was a wal-mart in oh, and a kid's like soccer ball is not the only toy in the free world? amazing, rig

second, the peace corps, the thought that we'd have u.s. policy to send our sons and daughters, our mothers and fathers, eventually our grandmothers and grandfathers to remote areas all across the world to meet needs in other countries was sort of a bold experiment. but when shriver sent his memo to john kennedy in 1961, he actually didn't want to just create a federal program called peace corps, he wanted to run peace corps through nonprofit organizations, colleges, and universities, agencies at all levels. and peace corps remains small today because that vision wasn't fulfilled. and then came americorps roaring along, which had that instinct to go to the strength of america, to its nonprofit institutions and colleges and universities and to give support to those institutions and build off the strength of civil society. so i think those models are really instructive as we think about how do we marry military, civilian, and public service and how do we go to where the strength of the country is today, which is in its institutions of civil s

you have elements of the general reserve corps. it will see some pretty heavy action during the battle. -- they will see some pretty heavy action during the battle. you can say the officer there is missing his arm. there are going to be elements as well unattached, there will be a couple of regiments organized for the capital. you have 108 national guard troops. -- listen to this, the soldiers that fight at fort are college students. up a little bit. we will talk about the battle now. it will be coming from frederick maryland. we will get to rockville, maryland right here. his infantry shifts to the east and down towards the sea. -- dc. his calvary will head down to georgetown. run right below that, with georgetown. coming out of the rockville pike, you can see the ship coming down, we called it georgia avenue today -- college georgia avenue today. called foriginally pennsylvania, there was a tower there, they could see for miles away. -- could not see for miles away because of the dust. advancedmake his directly toward the capital

he has been in the marine corps 18 months and i have been in for 15 years. there are vast areas of gray. as a great leader, you have to understand that the textbooks we thesethat we learn all of great leadership tools, there are words written in a like love, caring and concern. the really great leaders can see in between the lines and apply that. whatood ones -- that is separates the good was from the great ones. >> i have a few more questions and we can turn it over to the audience. this supports erythema about the united states being in this era of perpetual war. are we becoming increasingly comfortable with this idea? what are the implications of that? since i was the representative tonight for afghanistan, we have been fighting in afghanistan for 18 years. we will continue to fight it today. lost a, on monday, we sergeant, his name is jeremy. how many americans do you think now that? -- know that? thank you. we are still fighting this war. 775,000had servicemembers that have won a uniform that have been deployed into afghanistan over the last 18 years. t

i was born in new delhi india and my parents were in the peace corps so i was a peace corps baby and grew up in massachusetts with very liberal family my parents are democrats i don't think i ever met a republican until after my childhood years that anybody who thought else were very dumb or very bad people. but then i began to meet people that weren't liberals are democrats but they were not dum dumb. so that was expressed and started to do research and that i understood the things to be similar and then the more i learned the more i found i believed in individualism and value like achievements and that's what's resonated with me. that i said that's it this is what i believe so i do owe a debt of gratitude that's a new thing we are promoting and working on in the atlas society and i do owe a debt of gratitude that i want to repay that debt by sharing the philosophy with others maybe it's the peace corps baby and me that you have that community i would like to make the world a better place so this is been deeply empowering for me. >> when you turn the novella into an aunt them. >> on

that is the quantico marine corps band to help celebrate the marine corps' 244th birthday.gue tavern in philadelphia, and we are honoring them today. ed: maybe they'll serenade a new baby. [laughter] jedediah: it's amazing when you see that patriotism, it always almost brings me to tears. it's just to beautiful to have them here. we've had so many instances where we've had bands on the square to celebrate. people at home, do you almost cry? i certainly do. ed: we are honored to have them here as we celebrate veterans day all day long. the president is going to be kicking off the parade in new york city. but we also have the honor of our buddy pete. we are missing him today, but he is out in las vegas for a very good cause. he helped present a wounded hero with a well-earned reward. griff: right. giving a motorized track chair to isaac malone. jedediah: the independence fund has now given more than 2400 track chairs. let's bring in pete from las vegas. pete, how you are doing? ed: good morning. >> morning, guys. jedediah: you're going good work. absolutely. ed, i didn't wear

bush they got the largest increase in ameri corp. ever. susan stroud, who's been carrying this torch forever, domestically and internationally helping to spread the idea all over the world. steve cullbertson, who was here. who has built the service for young people showing you can be nine, ten, eight, 12 years old and change the world through service. so many people have built the movement it's amazing. i want to thank bell and brookings. bell is a hero, she has put the issue of poverty, opportunity, the middle class on the national agenda and it's amazing how she keeps coming up with new ideas to advance the cause but also action oriented. i'm glad we've been able to embrace the service brookings and alliance together. i want to thank jesse, who's fabulous. when i called him about taking this job we said i believe it's time for a new generation to take the lead, and honestly, jesse, i can't wait. and also duval patrick, who's a dear friend, no one gets this more from their personal experience. i want to thank them. my chairman, joe heck,

marine corps veteran, incredibly brave journalists. there have been times in this journey, this terrible journey when we've known, we think we've known where he was. so let me tell you what i think we should continue to do. we celebrate freedoms. we impress upon the culture that what you all do can be incredibly dangerous. we support reporters without borders. we engage the congress. and i've found in my career that awareness and constantly repeating a mantra is it one of the most effective things that we can do. i lament the demise of the newseum for that one reason because it does serve to remind us that the first freedom in this country is you all. so engagement as with most things in american life is the key, but i'm very happy to say that we need austin tice back. [applause] >> we do. >> you mentioned that there would probably be an influx, more veterans coming into the system. so one example of this may be the blue water vietnam veteran disability claim, the va is going to start processing next year. will an influx much claims sl

too small to go to the marine corps, too small to go to the army air corps. by a freakish accident got into the united states army. the most decorated soldier of world war ii. service to me is service. i quote oliver wendell holmes often, someone who experienced the hell of antietam, 16,000 gone. fur times as many people lost in that battle holmes was wounded in than the entire d-day campaign. ordinary people called upon to do extraordinary things. so you can't put a price on it. you can't say who was the greatest. but it's great to reflect on everyone who has done the job. >> well, thank you very much for coming here and speaking with us today. it's a real honor. thank you. >> let me take my prize. >> take your prize. take your mug. on behalf of the national press club, i would like to thank all veterans for their service. thank you so very much. with that we are adjourned. >> if you missed any of our live coverage, it's available to view online c-span.org. we've got more with campaign 2020 with president trump. he's traveling to atlanta to speak at a black

is the most prestigious unit there is in the marine corps this is the unit where the best of the best go it is the marine corps showcase ceremonial unit it handles presidents and dignitaries security at the white house the silent drill team. after my deployment to operation iraqi freedom in 200-2009 my command officer recommended me for the marine barracks washington i was excited it was the tip of the spear as far as the marine corps is concerned. she would stay work late and then she would drive home and she'd call me and she'd be on some kind a little and she talked about how she loved her job she was a. sweet person who was trying really hard. and succeeding. one of the 1st things i was told my entire dinner was. don't wear any makeup because the marines will think you want to sleep with them and i thought that's just ridiculous the atmosphere off the bat at marine barracks washington was was horrible people asked me what sexual favors had i performed to get my orders there. there is a senior officer in my command who the 1st time he spoke to me he said marines here are nothing bu

can you please by the women's army corps on taking this grooming and feminine greenies is one of the 1st lessons learned by the recruits. there were demands that require of her perfect physical health or stamina. i'm sure you've all heard the saying there's a right way a wrong way and the army way. i am. sorry that i'm the man. caught it saying. that there was a. model but. it. was tacked on $50.00 with the found helicopter hanging on your every word it doesn't matter with your own man or woman only that you and. the time. i am. on the 500 posts stop 2nd guess yourself it's a lot of work it's time to take yes. there was a waiting list for the navy over a year and i knew i didn't wait that long so i had a friend to me about the coast guard and i went to the coast guard and they said that they could get me in within a month so. i said ok. i tried college and. i had. a good job but as a married and an east texas i bought my own little house and the military was something i always found until i come from the family i was always taught that every citizen's duty to join the military if you

i also want to thank you for getting an idea for a new service corps.it would be made up of lawyers searching for meaning -- [laughing] -- and it would be massive. [laughing] >> one of our talking point is demand very much i outweigh suy and i can guarantee you that court would be very much the same. >> i'm married to a recovered lawyer so i can say that. okay. now peter weiner, we heard earlier that from a public opinion standpoint support for national team ready service might be a little stronger, democratic and independent side and has been. >> on the republican side. that was not nonexistent there. so from your perspective what does the case for national service look-alike? >> thank you. thanks, ladies and gentlemen, for being here. the brookings institution for organizing this composting it, for the colleagues here, two of whom are longtime friends, great scholars, but they are better people friends than their scholars. i do want to say exactly what bill said, which is this report, first, it's a short report so you should read it. it's interesting

corps. join the peter, his father, is discharged in the winter of 1862, joins the eighth michigan calvary, is captured and confined at andersonville, and when andersonville is liberated, he weighs 68 pounds. alex will pick him up at the train station and carry him home. so carney drives in the confederate right, hancock is assigned to explore the confederate left wit. with him will go the permed man we know and love as koster, and custer and they show up on , the confederate left, which sends long street into a downward spiral. he dispatches a brigade under the command of early to see that he botches up vast bottles up this new union up for it on the left. the hancock brigade sets himself up on an earthwork, seen in this painting. hancock has five regiments of and is in aur guns, wheat field with three buildings. early's four regiments get lost in the ravine and to pop out at this wheat field, the 24th virginia does not wait for anybody and those right across the open field into the teeth of

i tried to enlist in the army air corps in january of 1943. they said they were not taking enlistments at the time. the reason they do not, they said that is because they do not want me in the army air corps. so, i was drafted in march of 1943. so, i was, went to fort meade maryland. took my written exam, my physical, heady uniform issued. -- had a uniform issued. went to jefferson barracks, missouri, for basic training. finished my basic training at jefferson barracks, missouri. and, based on my score that i had on my written test, they put me in the army air corps. army air corps engineers. and they sent me to for belfour, virginia. -- fort balfour virginia. my mission was to go into the jungle, check out an area and building airfield. i was part of the engineer battalion. and practice out every day. i said no, this is not for me. so i applied for cadet training. there were 10 of us. nine whites and myself. two of us passed. biloxi,re, went to mississippi, for 30 days of basic training, more basic training. and finish there and went to tuske

army tank corps as a captain by himself. he was told to pick a tank for the u.s. then, when you pick it out, i want you to write a paper on it and say what we need to improve and send it to the american manufacturers. then, your next job is to figure out where you are going to build the training grounds for the tank school, and patton had to actually pick the ground, draw designs for it, then negotiate with the local community to purchase it. when the land was purchased, he had to develop the training program, and when the tanks finally started to show up later than they were supposed to, patton is the only one that knows how to drive a tank. what it shows you is this young officer was highly competent. in world war ii, he is viewed as kind of this gunslinger. maybe he does not plan logistics, his staff is not as good, but patton showed at a very early age he was very competent and knew exactly what he wanted. as a young captain, he goes to france and figures out what tank to use. he likes the french rental -- renault tank. he likes anything french. his wife was e

so i went from the peace corps to the war corps. i believe in public service. i just have a recommendation. i think the most important thing in life is relationships. and i think that's a phrase that would be really useful to incorporate in what you're talking about. when we live in a city where the president just destroys relationships, we really need to have other voices saying, this really matters. >> thank you. back there, yes, you. >> good morning. >> actually, i was pointing to this guy right here, but go ahead, then you can pass the mic over to him. >> okay. i'm bill galvin with the center on conscience and war. we've heard a lot of talk about universal service and an expectation of service. we also heard from dr. heck about young folks who said we like service, but you know, don't force us to do it. my question is, if you're talking about universal service, are you thinking it's going to be mandatory? and if so, how will you deal with the people who say, i'm not going to do it? and if it's not going to be mandatory, how are you envisioning making it uni

my father was in the marine corps. so i have a special affinity, of course, for the marine corps because of that as well. but appreciate all of our amazing, wonderful veterans and am really honored today to join my colleagues. i know the good senator from kansas is next, and he and i have a lot of opportunity to work on agricultural issues. he chairs our ag committee. but also another member of the marine corps. i know that he has served with great distinction. just a great honor to be here today joining my colleagues in honoring our phenomenal veterans. in june i had the opportunity to join a senate delegation in normandy for the 75th anniversary of d day. we had the honor of meeting with some of the veterans who landed on the beaches of normandy and were again reminded of the tremendous sacrifices that our nation's veterans have made to preserve our way of life and keep our nation free. it really was an honor to meet with some of those veterans and to be there at normandy on the 75th anniversary to not only see where

marine corps. with the backlog unfortunately his issues are not unique. veterans have been stuck in the v.a.'s appeals or disability claims backlog for decades. there has been recent legislation passed designed to deal with it that hopefully will start clearing the backlog. one of the biggest issues has been some of the ways the v.a. processed initial claims that they weren't keeping up with a lot of technological advancements. they were still doing a lot of things via courier and sending stuff back and forth via mail instead of electronically sharing certain things and there were some rules implemented prior to the iraq and afghanistan wars that made processing claims more difficult. since the first decade of the century you have a lot of issues about backlog claims. when i was working for a member of congress that was one of my jobs. hopefully they are in a better place with that. the headline, the president's opposition to endless hours. among the polling numbers among veterans 64% saying the war in iraq without fighting. during that served time, team

and then with a diplomatic corps. in all g three confirmations and now a final matter the last few days with those images coming out of hong kong the police crackdown for those that were standing up for their freedom and regions autonomy has intensified the university campus looks like a war zone. with government forces laying siege upon students and protesters. fee this is something truly terrible. in the midst of the crackdown hong kong's high court ruled against the executive in favor of the protesters writes to be acting beyond its authorities and allies it has the government systematic campaign with the autonomous region hundreds of pages of internal documentsov from the government to have that region that is supposed to legally be distinct from the rest of china. those organs have apsley no mercy the protesters are not the problem it is beijing and hong kong leadership the communist party must know it will hurt in the 21st century version of tiananmen square united states where not forget neither would china's o

drawing board and they said they lockheed martin boeing dime corp international computer sciences corp and aero vironment all told eric about 70 companies are interested in this $1000000000.00 contract as we look out for 35710 years this market remains a very much a growth market. this is the disease a permanent war that destroyed the mental waste. islam like fundamentalism. can power all of those who profit from a more politically economically and militarily. make no mistake a nuclear armed iran is not a challenge that can be contained it would threaten the elimination of israel the security of gulf nations and the stability of the global caught. at risk triggering a nuclear arms race in the region and they are raveling of the nonproliferation treaty. and how close is iran to getting. well let me show you brought a diagram for. here's a dark room. this is a bomb. this is a fuse. where should a red line be drawn. a red line should be drawn right here. the threat from iran is a political football what was interesting was that many israelis including people from the military said as long

has a really smart with the marine corps needs a professional as i am. camaraderie everything about it inspired me. after i graduated high school i left for orlando florida which was the 1st time i was ever on an airplane and a life. initially it was just wanting to go see the world because i'm from a really small town i had a college scholarship to go play basketball but i instead opted to go into the military. you know what i chose to do. i come from a long line of military when we had somebody from every generation on both sides of the family all the way back to the revolutionary war i had served in the armed forces and i chose the marine corps because no one in my family had ever done that . well of putting on a uniform every day and you know just getting out there and giving it my all and it's a very proud feeling. that i would have done the camp and it was create the cooler ottery that discipline everything it taught you who i wanted to be that's what they taught. obviously it was different taking a shower with different people all of a sudden good

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reason they said that is they didn't want me in the army air corps. so i was drafted in march of 43. i went to fort maine, maryland and took my written exam, my went to jefferson, issouri for basic training finished my basic training at jefferson barracks, missouri. and, based on my score that i had on my written test, they put me in the army air corps. army air corps engineers. and they sent me to fort belvoir, virginia. [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] >> my mission was to go into the jungle, check out an area and build an airfield. i was part of the engineer battalion. we used to go out and practice every day. i said no, this is not for me. so i applied for cadet raining. there were 10 of us. nine whites and myself. two of us passed. from there, went to biloxi, mississippi, for 30 days of basic training, more basic raining. and finish there and went to tuskegee and the rest is history. jerr

dennis tobin, marine corps league. mr.illiam d rosswaf, executive director, military chaplain's association of the usa. zurflut, national veterans of lyzed america. mr. charles s chamberlain, commander in chief, military the world wars. mr. phillip valinski. thaker, congressional medal of honor society of the usa. mr. steven butch whitehead, national commander, disabled erans.an vet r. dan mary, vice president of government relations. munoz commissioned office association. carton, air force sergeant association. polish en wzcoski veterans usa. unningham, national president, corps rein war veteran's association of the usa. mr. lawrence gromo, national commander, american gi forum of the united states. associate members of the located in the boxes to the left. i would like to ask them to recognized.e lease join me with your applause. it's now my pleasure to introduce the executive director rmy national cemeteries miss aguilera.ham >> good morning. welcome to arlington national cemetery, thank you mr. vice for being here toda