this is who your guard is today and i'm just going to recognize a master sergeant, michael lance very. some of you have heard this on the news. this is truly -- even though he lost his life i could pick any master sergeant having get the same response. michael lance very sparks middle schoolteacher marine corps veteran nevada air national guard master sergeant lost his life protecting his students won when a 12-year-old walked in armed with a semiautomatic handgun and opened fire on the school campus in october. that is who your guard is. thank you. [applause] >> thank you general grass for coming today. i would also like to thank the national press club staff including her journalism institute and broadcast center for helping organize today's event and finally a reminder you can find more information about the national press club as well as a transcript and video of today's program on our web site at www.press.org. thank you. we are adjourned. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> and new university of virginia commission report recommends that states play a bigger role in controll

michael smith is a blogger at thenation.com, a fellow at the nation institute, a free lance writer, and work appeared in places like the guardian, ebony, huffington post. gary young is author, broad katzer, and award winning columnist at the guardian, the nation, and a fellow at the nation institute. he's written four books, his fourth back, the speech, the story behind king's dream, is why we are here tonight, giving the fuller history on the march in washington and reflects on current policy of this civil right's history and season of memorialization. i'll turn it over to gary, kind of give us introduction remarks, michael, conversation up here, and then we'll open it up to question and conversation with you. thank you. >> for those who have not seen me before, i'm gary young, and for those of you who have seen me before, i'm gary young in a suit. [laughter] it's not a particularly flail sight unless i'm at a wedding or funeral. the book is called "the speeches" which is about king's famous speech at the march on washington, left there an idea that you have a great man and a great tal

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