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. >> get ready to laugh as we welcome john witherspoon. >> john witherspoon will be with us this morningrward to that that's and more zip trippingn good day- >>> all right 8:40 this morning. moving ceremony just about to happen at the air force memorial in northern virginia involving a world war ii veteran and a long overdue medal. >> bob barnard is live from arlington, virginia, now with a preview. bob, good morning. >> reporter: hey g morning guys. i don't know if you can see him in the crowd over there but the gentleman wearing the white ball cap is 94-year-old second lieutenant john pedestrian sianni of college park, maryland who was a world war ii bombardier who was shot down over germany in 1944. was forced to march 300 miles to a nazi prison camp and like many from that great generation, did not really tell his story for many years, and in recent years when his family found out what he endure and the lasting injuries that he suffered because of being shot down, they applied for a purple heart for john and he will get it today here at the air force memorial in a moving ceremon at 9

two homes and a bt even though it's hot outside >> here with us, john witherspoon, good morning. >>>rs in washington had themselves a little bit of a feud in washington state. somebody let it whole world now how he feels about his neighbor. the homeowner mowed this choice word with an arrow pointing to the store, the motive behind the message is unclear, there is word that the feud dates back to 2009 allegedly starting after one neighbor paint their fence lavender and fichia. >> here's whatnot to do when taking a selfie. a couple weeks ago a woman was standing at an art exhibit. she lost her balance. look at the domino effect. she fell backwards and everything else went at least ten pedestals holding scripted crowns and head pieces, three sculptures destroyed, others partially damaged. >> it got so many likes on instagram. >> it's gone viral. >> i'm taking her side on this, they should have anchored those things down so they wouldn't tip over like >> really? >> come on. you know? >> has the heat gotten to your head >> probably. >> let's talk about we got the heat and rain coming in.

it's great, i don't know how long i think, i'm really into this calvinist stuff but john witherspoon, one thing that i found in all this was the greatness of the studies of enlightenment which i have appreciated before and the presbyterians, the presbyterian church 's most powerful in scotland. there was an early contact between enlightenment thinkers like adam smith and david hume and church so that by the time witherspoon arrived at princeton in 1773, he was a minister. he told his students there's nothing that faith will teach you that reason cannot sustain. whoa. nothing faith will teach you or nothing that faith will give you that reason cannot sustain. this was a meeting of the enlightenment with faith. quite extraordinary, if you ask me. this is why when you see these various groups that go along with this, they have long sessions of prayer and religious meditation, and then they enter into conversation with one another. this in many ways i think is self-sufficient but if you look at the great statements by wilson on the covenant of the league of nations, it's all there. and fi