let me see george brooks he serves in the, i think 25th he dies and 1864 from back from wounds occurred in received an action and this file is about 100 pages because what they the widow what the pension bureau realizes is now when i question you about marriage susan, go get all your neighbors get every single one of them who thought you were married and believed you were married. and let's get to testify. let's put it under oath. let's go do that, susan, because if you like. if you cheat, the pension bureau, y'all you go to the you can be in prison or you have to pay back. and so this is a huge deal. these women have to get all of testimonies where. they got married when they met when when were there conceived. y'all see how like how, how and they said that is when were your children can where who was there when your children were born? what did your children look like and so have to gather all of their community members to make this pension happy? and again, i'm telling you out of pension is normally 8 to $8 a month so you're not going to live very rich off the pension but just to get

george washington l.a. school of international affairs. she has been a nonresident fellow at the brookingstution and she has a phd in international relations in llm, has a mpa, jad and has attended the hague academy for international and a retired u.s. naval reserve officer with many awards. in addition to having ambassador jenkins with those, we are privileged to have this morning as a moderator, who brings her own set of excellence to our van and began as a peace corps volunteer teaching english in cambodia. throughout her career she has advised and trained several members of congress, leading diplomats, corporate ceos, and several local elected officials nationwide. in 2021, she became the first african emerging woman to serve as principal deputy spokesperson at the united states department of state. she has received a number of awards and recognitions including one of the top 35 black americans in national security and foreign policy, recipient of the franklin williams award from the united states peace corps. she was featured as one of the most influential african-americans in front o