those comments in response to a photo posted on that website take a look at this this is a marine corps sergeant james here holding up a picture of scott olsen and a sign that says you did this to my brother just a little while ago i spoke to the man in that photo who also served two tours in iraq he told me why he took the picture and what it meant to him. i wish i had. the blue cabul you're describing the plethora of emotions that i felt when i saw the picture of corporal olsen. that picture was taken about fifteen minutes after i found out what happened and i just i felt the need to express the various emotions that were going on inside of me. and i knew that i wasn't the only person that felt this way and i figured i would go ahead and try to be one of the people that was able to express the feelings that that they felt. from what i understand you don't know scott olsen but you also served two tours in iraq talk to me sergeant about the relationships of you know people who serve in combat zones whether or not you serve together what is that it's a new things to me there's a very more oil sor

from so many people including fellow veterans take a look at this picture this is a photo of marine corps sergeant j.j. until holding up a picture of also and a sign that says you did this to my brother several people wrote in with comments and i want to share a few euthenasia writes a fellow veteran here as well that's our effin brother i didn't stomp around in the you know what to come home and watch my brothers spit on like this. and one key pro says when someone attacks u.s. marine who are very much my family i will stand and i will fight to protect them because they did the same for me and asked nothing in return and love and live in comments oakland just woke up a sleeping dog or a dog the police need to protect them the police are supposed to be that dog instead they bite their owner looks like they woke up the big dogs we need you we have reached a tipping point the numbers of people joining throughout the u.s. have been skyrocketing and we want to take a deeper look now into the changing faces of this movement and how it's changing the movement itself argues on a star theater going to tak

gentil former sergeant in the united states marine corps. and a lot of what those protesters on our occupy wall street are frustrated and angry about is a system that no longer works that's harming the economy making it difficult for both veterans and regular people people with college degrees to find jobs it is a system many say is broken well earlier i spoke to peter joseph about this he is the founder of the man he has been also very critical of the mainstream media's coverage of the occupy movement so i asked him to lay things out for me and tell me what his biggest problems are with it here's his take. well needless to say the mainstream media is doing what it always does best and that's maintaining the status quo it's not far fetched understanding to see that the values that are perpetuated by the system are so seeded with wealth generation and the corporations that run this country obviously to do the best they can to make sure the public is not aware of the growing crisis that this economic system is creating across the board so i wa

. >> joining me now is former marine corps sergeant shamar thomas who served two tours in iraq and tookin the second battle of fallujah. sir, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, sir. i appreciate it. >> it is my honor to have you here. i hear you in that video use the would honor, over and over. that's a marine word. >> it is, honor were courage be a commit many. >> when you are watching these police, and it is not all police or even mostly police. but there are police officers at the demonstrationes who you can see are very clearly crossing a line from serving and protecting all of the people in new york, to make something decisions that do not live up to what you would consider the basic honor of a new york city police officer. >> yes, sir. well basically, they have a thing why wr they say courtesy and professionalism. we asthma reasons consider ourselves professional as well. being in combat operations and having, you know, face riots, rioters throwing rocks and not assaulting a crowd physically and then to come home to new york city where the cops aren't under the same

take marine corps sergeant rafael peralta who was killed in iraq in 2004. an insurgent's grenade with his body taking his life but saving his comrades. why medal of honors today are awarded at the fraction of the rate of world war oi through vietnam. >> in vietnam we gave out over 200, 200 men earned the medal of honor. i think the average is 2.3 per 1 million prior to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. that that's dropped. out of those ten medals of honor, we have given out three. during the bush administration's tenure, there were zero medals of honor given out to living recipients. i don't know what the reason is. the dod tells us the nature of war has changed and we're no longer in close quarter combat and tell that to the marines in fallujah and those soldiers in ramadi and iraq and those soldiers fighting risking their lives and doing courageous things every single day not recognizing them for what they're doing is a travesty. >> on top of that, yes, we do fight differently, but our warriors are also up against a different enemy, congressman. one that

president, today i rise to pay tribute to sergeant daniel david geer of the united states marine corps. sergeantgeer was assigned to the third marine division, second marine expeditionary force. he was killed by a small-arms filer while on patrol in helmand province, afghanistan. sergeant geer was only 21 years of age, but as a testament to his character and reputation, hundreds attended his memorial service and hundreds more lined the procession route to where he was laid to rest. sergeant geer always wanted to be a marine. in fact, his friends and family from vermel, remember a young man who could hardly wait until his senior year at uletta high school before enlisting in the marine corps. even during his school years, his personality and character exemplified what it means to be a marine. sergeant geer was the captain of his high school soccer team and was always there for his teammates. by all accounts whether in high school or as a noncommissioned officer he was a leader and loved by many. sergeant geer had a profound sense of duty and deep commitment to freedom and liberty. all he asked fo

i met recently with the sergeant major of the marine corps. sergeant major barrett shared with me the stories of several marines who are serving our country. i can't discuss all of them, but i want to give you a few examples. one is sergeant ramirez, a squad leader assigned to the first battalion fifth marines in helmand province in afghanistan. sergeant ramirez has a hook as a left hand. in february of 2006, sergeant ramirez lost his hand when he was wounded in action while serving in iraq with the three-fifths marines. now he's serving patrols in afghanistan. he wanted to go back and serve our country. talk about bravery. talk about courage. there's also sergeant gill at quantico and corporal pachecko at camp pendelton and thousands of soldiers, sailors and marines who after being injured in the battlefield have gone back to serve their country. they are doing their jobs with skill and courage in the tenth year that our country is at war. i just wish that we would show half, even a quarter of the courage of our military men and women in taking up the

can put up a photo this is a picture of jay gen feel that we have this is a former sergeant with the u.s. marine corps we spoke to him yesterday and he was just in shock and he's holding a picture of scott olsen he's also holding a sign that says you did this to my brother i know this picture really elicited a lot of response including comments from other veterans and one of them really sticks out to me it says i think it was aimed at police it says you have awoken the big dogs marines we need you military personnel we need you to stand up i'm wondering if this continues if there's more police brutality that we see do you expect that former military will come out and sort of act as a security force do you think they should and what are your thoughts about that. well i encourage all the military members that are veterans you know i don't really you know want active duty to you know leave their post because you know i don't i don't want you know to jeopardize their careers but i do believe that all veterans you know have a responsibility to protect these people because we you know like myself and scott

there is a famous gunnery sergeant sergeant in the marine corps named gunny featherstone, and he tells his young marines when they complain about their salaries, he says in the marine corps you get to salaries. you get a financial salary and you get a psychological salary. he says the financial salary but the psychological salary is absolutely applies to everyone in this room i miss knowing that you are part of a core, you know i don't need to repeat it. you know what it

there's a famous gunnery sergeant in the marine corps named gunny featherstone, and he tells his youngmarines when they complain about their salaries, he says, in the marine corps you get a financial salary, and you get a psychological salary. the financial salary sucks, but the psychological salary -- and this absolutely applies to everyone in this room -- is knowing that you're part of a corps, you know, i don't need to repeat it. you know what it is. and he says that's -- so that psychological salary is honor. and that is something that is worth a lot. how can you put a dollar figure on that? >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here are the bestselling nonfiction books according to the los angeles times as of october 5th. >> for more bestseller ors go to latimes.com. >> ken beckwith, political women and american democracy. how did you decide which essays to include in this work? >> my co-editors and i, um, organized with a grant from the aaron berg foundation, the project on american democracy at the university of notre dame that we would convene, um, b

marine corps. >> i'm adam rosenbald, currently 32 and a sergeant in the united states army airborne.uty as a young -- a young male to sign up to go serve. >> i walked into a recruiting station and off i went. >> as commander in chief, i have determined that it is in our vital national interests to send an additional 30,000 u.s. troops to afghanistan. >> the first time i was in combat was we went on patrol and going from one of our bases to ooed. >> got to get out of here! >> there was daily, twice a day, sometimes more than that. >> turn north! >> you've got to do your job perfectly because if you don't, the guy next to you or the guy behind you is going to get shot. >> i got him. see the window right there? >> it was small arms, rpgs, mortar fire. >> fire! >> ieds on one road we had access to, so you name it, we pretty much saw it. >> just going from one base to another means somebody is probably going to get hit by an ied. >> the eyieds are constant. >> my company, we lost five marines. two of them were very good friends of mine. almost all of them were to ieds. >> on the second to

marine corps marathon in washington. among the thousands taking part was a family with a very special reason for running. elaine quijano has more. >> reporter: when 31 jold shalan webb describes her husband, army staff sergeant christopher webb what first comes to mind is this. >> it was just like his dream come true to have a family. >> reporter: after five years of marriage he realized that dream, becoming a father to a little girl, mary. but two months later he said good-bye to his family and headed to iraq. >> i remember asking him what if something happens and he was just like, oh, honey, nothing is going to happen, and i believed him. >> reporter: for four months they kept in touch online almost every day. but in march of 2007, men in uniform knocked on her door. >> so they came in, it was just like on tv. >> reporter: you didn't want to open the door? >> no. it's like your heart falls to the floor. >> reporter: 28-year-old christopher webb and two other soldier has been killed by a road side bomb in baghdad, leaving her a widow to raise their daughter alone. do you think about your daddy? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: mary is five now. when asked often about her father, she's been told he died and is in hea

let's take the lessons of sergeant shane marsh who criticize police for turning on peaceful protesters. in the and he didn't mention the name. the you are to correspond a marine corps and i am take a closer look at a police officer that some are calling a hero biting against the military as a share of the police force. five. six weeks into the occupy movement nearly one thousand on our activists have been arrested in new york city. thrown to the ground beaten netted like flies and pepper sprayed. the n.y.c. these tactics have been harshly criticized yet the most profound and public condemnation recently came from you must marine sergeant shamar thomas was defending demonstrators in times square. tonight. the lone man that stood up to dozens of new york cops comes from a family of honor my step father he was a he would have been a stand in the two thousand and six years so it wasn't even that long ago me and my mother were actually in iraq the same time sergeant thomas completed two tours in iraq before returning to his homeland where he now aligns himself with the activists he says are being targeted by aggressive authority in uniform have a scene and. take on a pe

the marine corps law enforcement foundation got together in new york, they were kind enough to invite me along. take a look. in the striped shirt because he is no longer active duty, marine sergeantof the medal of honor. he's seen here with general james amos. here's dakota with barney barnum there in the center, he's a cmoh, congressional medal of honor recipient for his heroics in vietnam. jenna: such a special group of people. jon: they are phenomenal. you see that guy on the right? you recognize him? jenna: that looks like a tough guy pose. jon: that's rick leften that would. he -- leventhal along with one of the marine heros of vietnam, patrick punch haines. jenna: i thought you were going to say after a couple of drinks. jon: one of our gracious restaurant hosts and jim colstrum, you might recognize him, frequent guest here on fox. he went on to head the new york office of the fbi. don peppy, the restaurant put on a spread for us all, and here's one of my favorites, patty mcgee and paul newman from the nypd pipes and drums emerald society, they were at my table along with peter pates, and it was a great

sergeant bryan and captain sherwood. >> i know for myself, like even just i know we have another bring it in the audience, but when you first go to the table, even inside the marine corps being a woman going to the infantry battalions, there have oath of office first that will. at first they were like, are you lost? but as the deployment went on it was like i honestly was telling them where i want to go, what we needed to be doing, and it was to the point where i was able to make decisions, and they trusted my judgment because of so much of what happened previous, and the success we've had. that was just for the marine corps side of the. as far as the villages went, a lot of the elders would sit down with me and talk to me, you know, about what was going on and we would try to make a plan with the company commander, like who owns that battle space, what we could do to help the issues in the area. so i felt honored complex one, on the marine corps site and on the village aside. because i know how big of a deal it is but it's like that their general comes into play. i wasn't seen as a woman in their eyes, but i'm not seen as like a regular, you know, male in the eyes eit

sergeant william harvey carney. and he received it during the civil war. then of course we noticed that the marines started at its inception, the marine corps refused to recruit african-americans from 1775 until 1942. but immediately after the racial restrictions were lifted, nearly 20,000 african-americans signed up to become marines and began their basic training at the segregated camp montford point during world war ii until 1949. yet they were still faced with segregation and racism. we all know that the marines are the first in and as the marines are the first in, then others follow. we're known and they are well known for taking the bullet first in many instances, as they worked with other members of the united states military. so today it is more than appropriate, mr. speaker, to be able to honor these fine heroic individuals. i salute them, i thank god that we have the opportunity to honor them in this time. isn't it great that america can unite together and go forward under a unity of understanding the dignity of all people. thank you marks are ins, the montford point marines, and this is an honor. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has e