and the japs were shooting at me from up there somewhere. they were shooting at people from every angle there was you see they had the whole thing enfiladed and designed so that all the approaching both came in under murderous crossfire so there wasn't any we're going to get out of the line of fire and we're shooting out from here from there and from there every goddamn angle was covered and we own and stumble right into all this. water. by the end of the day the marine second battalion was holding on to a seventy to three hundred foot stretch of sand and fifteen hundred to five thousand american to be cheered with your dad for whom. i'm just. i can't stand it. look at the look at this sand here i couldn't get anywhere near the sand i was going up on the reef. there was a tank right about here half in the trauma. gone. that's not going to really and i went all the guys on my boat i think i remember saying i was going to let go and i said no because i knew these guys would have grown because we were over a hundred yards from the sand and they

could i think i said knowledge say in the boat they were trying to climb out of the boat while the japs were shooting i. had style and we found that access through the reef and that's when i landed these guys on the piece happened i don't know i don't know i think i did and i think i. however despite the heavy casualties for the disaster was averted a coordinated japanese counterattack might have overrun the exhaust reads but there was no communication with the japanese command bunker the japanese admiral in charge of shivah saki decided to move his headquarters from this area to the south part of the island and when they were doing that they went outside of their bunker and a five inch shell exploded right near them and killed them all and in doing that in losing their tactical commander on the first day of the battle the japanese did not mount as counterattack in the night which potentially could have driven the marines right off of the island. i've had my moment of. let's go take a look at those eight inch. the legacy of the battle is still scattered across the sands of base. to this

a navy guy of some kind and that guy's been out there for the last fifteen twenty minutes and the japs are shooting at him and he's hauling guys out of the water i said this guy is either brave or stupid or both and but he kept doing it tony made several trips back each time with a boat load of went wonderbra one hundred marines going back to the transport ship for medical treatment with these guys. that he saved the lives of nearly seventy marines that day. and i got to know a number of the medical doctors we had eight desire a member aboard. and the senior medical officer of an old guy in a chance conversation i want to know what his specialty was you see that my gynecologist and not seeing the may to be about as absurd a thing as i could imagine i said you know just possibly any one of us might be prayed and he says i'll take care of you. but there was another guy among the eight he also and a chance higher chance conversation i want to know what his specialty was he's a path by training and i said you're a natural for this you can be sure and take care of all of us so the medical d

experience and is credited with broadening the japanese -- broadening the definition of theater by bringing jap needs american stories to stages all across the country. he has collaborated with the most diverse american theater venues, from large mainstream houses to the most experimental venues to african american ethnic cally specific theaters reaching extraordinarily diverse audiences. from here to japan, his acclaimed sisters, maximoto premiered in 2005. in the last couple years he worked with camposanto on a fist of roses on male violence and an orchestral composition. many of his plays are collected in month more cherry blossoms published by washington press. among his awards are the civil liberties public education fund and lila wallace reader's digest award. phillip is also a respected independent film maker whose film recently premiered at sundance, but we're here to talk about his upcoming production, after the war. a jazz-infused drama set in post-war san francisco japan town in 1948 which chronicles the return of japanese americans into the internment -- from the internment camp. sh

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talk about something very symbolic something very historic and russia america through ations and the japs and vanna can remind all journalists who interview people like killers that the general ask what about the jackson valley to greenland and they and they all want to know will it ever be lifted you know the answer the answer is never i think so well so i ask the question maybe i'll hear something else add. a year i was disappointed because it will be the after. of course so when you and i went there to do one is never. optimistic that we may see that. left within. well today but but since and maybe that's by the end of this year the administration has made it very clear this administration which is the third administration consecutively that is really has pledged to remove jackson vanocur to make efforts necessary to get congress to do that i think that this year it will do so it has publicly said that it supports it and when vice president biden was here in moscow in march he said that he personally would be leaving the administration's efforts in congress to get it lifted. and it's b

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when i became ranking member of the judiciary committee in jap, this was the first oversight issue tosk. several other senators' offices contacted my office to pass along these allegations about an atf case called operation fast and furious. at first, the allegation sounded too shocking to believe, but sadly, they turned out to be true. atf is supposed to stop criminals from trafficking guns to drug cartels or any place else. instead, the atf made it easier for alleged cartel middleman to get weapons from u.s. gun dealers. agents were actually ordered to stand by and watch these middle men, these straw purchasers by hundreds upon hundreds of weapons. agents warned that any action could lead to tramming di, but -- tragedy, but management didn't want to listen. we will hear from some of those agents today and hear from their point of view. inaction would be bad enough, but atf went even further. atf een couraged gun -- encouraged gun dealers to sell to straw buyers. one worried profeteically about that risk. he wrote to atf about concerns that a border patrol agent mite end up facing th