we go to normandy, spend a lot of time in normandy. holland, belgium. we take veterans back to the places where they fought. many of you may not know that we're losing 1,000 world war ii veterans a day. 30,000 a month. and of the 16 million americans who served in world war ii there are only about 2.3 million left. so we're losing these guys rapidly. we're losing the stories and the lessons of freedom and preserving our freedom that they fought so hard for. so we welcome you tonight to this occasion. we have some thank yous. little things we have to get out of the way first before we get out the guys. and they're back there telling dirty jokes. so we're going to let them get that out of the way before they come out. but you know, first off the boston seaport hotel and their staff. we've had these events all over the country. and i can tell you honestly, there has not been a more helpful group of people putting this event together than the seaport hotel staff. they have been just over the top with this. they recognize what the event's about. and they've

for our special event band of brothers, normandy to the hole cast.lease direct your attention to the screen above as you learn who will be here tonight and the incredible stories they have to share. ♪ . >>> that is a shot overlooking omaha beach in normandy. it looks a little more peaceful than on june 6, 1944. i thank my editor and photographer for putting that together. time to meet the boys. wow. the boys. it's going to be a fun night. if you like to laugh and learn about history, then these are the guys that you want to hear it from. i'm going to open up the magic door and see if the wizard is ready. babe went to the bathroom. [ laughter ]. >> we will move on. he played joe leeb god and recently seen in "white collar," he's on leave from the movie set from the great country of scotland where they all talk funny, mr. ross mccall. [ applause ] he played frank per canty in band of brothers. in his younger days he appeared in the movie "hook" directed by stephen spielberg and "basketball diaries" with a guy named leonardo depap i don't. he's a great

this is what the beautiful beaches of normandy look like today.ately. she was there as a child and remembers what that felt like and is with us now. kate maxwell is the editor in chief of "jetsetter.com. good to see you, kate. >> good to see you. >> even though you were a child, you remember as though it was yesterday. >> i do. >> for most folks have to get there by plane. once you get to paris, are you advising folks to get on a train, get on a car or spend a little time in paris first? >> it's paris, one of the most beautiful cities in the the mos beautiful cities in the world, so i would spend at least a night there. there's a new hotel, hotel st. james and it's a mini chateau not too far from the center. i would definitely spend a night there. then, you have a couple options. you could rent a car in paris and drive to normandy, three and a half hours or take the train from paris and then hire a car from there. a car will cost you between $30 and $50 a day. and be prepared to use a stick shift because automatic cars are hard to come by in franc

this is what the beautiful beaches of normandy look like today.ately. she was there as a child and remembers what that felt like and is with us now. kate maxwell is the editor in chief of "jetsetter.com. good to see you, kate. >> good to see you. >> even though you were a child, you remember as though it was yesterday. >> i do. >> for most folks have to get there by plane. once you get to paris, are you advising folks to get on a train, get on a car or spend a little time in paris first? >> it's paris, one of the most beautiful cities in the the mos beautiful cities in the world, so i would spend at least a night there. there's a new hotel, hotel st. james and it's a mini chateau not too far from the center. i would definitely spend a night there. then, you have a couple options. you could rent a car in paris and drive to normandy, three and a half hours or take the train from paris and then hire a car from there. a car will cost you between $30 and $50 a day. and be prepared to use a stick shift because automatic cars are hard to come by in franc

>> on normandy, we jumped at the 1:30 a.m., pitch dark, behind enemy lines.o parachute behind the enemy lines, do everything possible to keep the germans at bay, to prevent them from getting to the beachhead, to allow them to establish a beachhead on the american side. gregg: and what happened? >> and it was so dark, and the weather was bad and, as a result, we were scattered all over the countryside in normandy. and before we entered the plane they issued us a toy-like cricket, it would click, click, saw movement and couldn't identify who it was at night, you would click twice. if he was a paratrooper he will have had the click and he would click back once. that means, that he would be a friendly soldier. gregg: yeah. how scared were you? >> i was frightened. being a 19-year-old and i was frightened but your adrenaline gets to the point where you forget about being frightened. you're trying it save your life and do your job at the same time. gregg: mr. colewell, you were 16 years old when you parachuted in. talk to us about that. >> just before i left the pl

if you have ever been to normandy and seen the cemetery there, it is really something else. i know i have given a speech with bob before, bob you had a great line you come out and say you know you look on the gravestones and it doesn't republican and it doesn't say democrat. >> eric: good point. >> andrea: we are all in this together. >> bob: you just took my one more thing. >> andrea: my gosh. >> greg: i'll give you a banned word of the day. >> bob: fine. >> greg: doing a lot of work for the wounded veterans. gary sinise who is raising money to build houses for wounded warriors and the late andrew breitbart who did a lot of great work for the troops. he did great work while he was here for a short time on this planet. >> eric: jump in here quickly. a lot of relatives, my father passed away now in the u.s. navy. we have a picture of him and my mother a long time ago. there they are. the two of them. probably around 1943, 1944 or so. united states navy. the next picture if you don't mind. this is my nephew jeremiah who is stationed at camp lejeune in north carolina. he is a p

kristen dahlgren, nbc news, normandy. >> and that is our broadcast on this monday night as we start a new week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> good evening. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai. right now east bay community is gathering to mourn the death of a popular high school football player. he was stabbed to death at a party saturday night in fremont. he was a standout running back and linebacker. >> nbc bay area's damian trujillo is live at the high school. i understand there's a vigil set for later tonight. >> reporter: that's right. not

it is a passionate issue for you and i know you are excited about going to normandy.g for you. >> getting it unveiled. >> it is a lot of things. the statue is one major thing. i like the world war ii as you know . i want to learn more about d-day and the battles, and so i will be touring some of the beachs and battlefields which i am so excited for. i can't wait. >> you are already bloging about this, i hear? >> yes. and on wapproximate f-witf.com, or org. wtif.org/hang/tough is my blog. >> we can follow your adventures as you go to france. i know your folks are proud of you. and you are an inspiring young man and thank you for taking up the cause for an verdict that inspired so many of us. and thank you very much . good luck to you. >> thank you, and thanks for having me on. >> go ahead, sorry. >>> and also i want to thank the vets for all of their work. >> absolutely. it is a special weekend and we want to honor the veterans in our country. thank you very much. >> so when gas prices began to climb, millions of you cancelled the plans for summer vacation and summer i

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the guys who were buried over in margrauten, in the normandy american cemetery and in belgium d luxembourg, those are the heroes of world war ii. how often do you think about those guys who never came home? >> well, i -- actually, after the war i went back to school and i put the war behind me and went on with my life. and i didn't really start thinking about fellas that we left behind and my fellas that are still here until just recently when i'd pretty well retired. and i began attending some of these kinds of affairs. and i began to realize th there was a whole part of my life that i'd sort of forgotten. ani actually have forgotten. and occasionally something comes up or someone saysomething that triggers a memory. and i -- but i do think of the people there. i was at -- i didn't want to go to margraten because to me it was like going to gettysburg, where all those people were slaughtered and wounded and everything like that. but i'm glad i went. and my daughter was with me. and i saw the way they were taking care of those graves. each grave was taken care of by a civilian. justimmacula

. >> dwight eisenhower before normandy, wrote out a message to be given in the event that the germans us off the beaches. what it said was, i picked the place where we landed. the troops, the navy, the airmen did their best and are most volarrous. if anybody deserves blame, it's me. >> sean: how many troops did we lose -- 7- or 8,000 men when they slammed the beaches of normandy? >> right. >> sean: a lot of loss. he prepared to take the blame, not -- >> correct. >> sean: then he gave praise after. >> when it became clear that it was a success. he wrote another message, giving all the credit to the troops. the only time he mentioned himself was at the end when he said, i'm proud of you. >> sean: what about your time as attorney general and u.s. district court judge, your opinions -- because obviously, mr. rodriguez would not have been able to engage in enhanced interrogation without the approval of the justice department, the white house, the president, et cetera, on down. your thoughts as you hear president obama refer to this as torture? >> he -- coming from somebody who is a lawyer,

. >> dwight eisenhower before normandy, wrote out a message to be given in the event that the germanshrew us off the beaches. what it said was, i picked the place where we landed. the troops, the navy, the airmen did their best and are most volarrous. if anybody deserves blame, it's me. >> sean: how many troops did we lose -- 7- or 8,000 men when they slammed the beaches of normandy? >> right. >> sean: a lot of loss. he prepared to take the blame, not -- >> correct. >> sean: then he gave praise after. >> when it became clear that it was a success. he wrote another message, giving all the credit to the troops. the only time he mentioned himself was at the end when he said, i'm proud of you. >> sean: what about your time as attorney general and u.s. district court judge, your opinions -- because obviously, mr. rodriguez would not have been able to engage in enhanced interrogation without the approval of the justice department, the white house, the president, et cetera, on down. your thoughts as you hear president obama refer to this as torture? >> he -- coming from somebody who is a law

some were on omaha beach in normandy in 1944. of the nurses was overwhelmed by today's ceremony. >> this is an honor. i didn't expect it. and i'm sorry that i can't -- talk when i cry. but it's tears of happiness. >> a testament to the work of those nurses, only 46 of the 1 million patients evacuated by air during world war ii died in flight. >>> the body of a boater was recovered today after a crash near the bay bridge. the accident happened last night about 11:00 at the kent narrows, police say the small boat hit a stone jetty. this afternoon, authorities recovered the body of the victim, 43-year-old david witlow, two others on the boat remau remained hospitalized in stable condition. a man in maryland set himself on fire trying to use a home made barbecue grill. it happened in waldorf. the victim igniting a 270 gallon barrel, converted into a barbecue pit, vapors, created a flash fire. despite having burns over half his body, the man was able to drive himself to the hospital and, he expected to survive. >>> there was an apartm

one depicts him with the 101st airborne division of soldier before the d-day invasion of normandy, france ii. another statue shows him as president with his hands on a globe. the changes come after the family said the original design highlighted his humble roots and not his accomplishments. the family has not commented on the new designs. >>> people in southwestern parts of virginia are cleaning up from some flash flooding. rescue teams had to help people evacuate from parts of rock bridge county early yesterday morning after they got stranded by rising water. they also had to help a man and woman whose car got stuck in a swollen creek. schools closed early in preparation for more forecasted rain. always talk about the power of water. the rain and flooding. and -- tom kierein, now the flooding is what really can be dangerous to anybody who's in a car or walking or whatever, right? >> yeah. and that was the same storm that hit us yesterday morning. if you remember, we had all that heavy rain around the morning commute. and they -- they got around a couple of inches. for us yesterday, we go

here they are in normandy on the beaches, which was such a beautiful moment and so powerful i think to everybody that was there that day. these are the cherry blossom princesses coming in their matching pink suits. they were mortified. their ten seconds with mrs. bush, preparing to say hello. the generosity of taking five minutes for a photo op in the heat of the sun in texas. but it was relationships that happened around moments like this. this is in the spring of 2003 when the president of uganda was visiting and he brought with them the uganda children's choir, which is made up of children orphaned by aids. they set up chairs in the rose garden. i have it -- i call it a syndrome where i can't not cry when kids are singing. i'm trying to photograph while they're singing. we do the official photo op and the president had to go back into the oval office, but mrs. bush stayed. the kids swarmed her. she hugged every one of them. it was this incredible moment of love and joy and she led them upstairs to the state floor where they had a treat of juice and cookies and they brought out barne

positions, and i will defer to our doctoral candidate back here that we do need to be talking about normandy positions looking at some of the data. our current migration control policies make it difficult to enter into the united states, visible barriers other kinds of things, make it expensive to enter the united states, make it difficult for employers to navigate the system, result in credible systematic human rights abuses, result in family separations, as brittany was talking about, and the thing that's bothered me the most in the last 12 years is that it results in hundreds of migrant deaths every year. so if we have a set of goals and we have a certain kind of, we see some of the strategies that we look at, we should evaluate some of the outcomes. there's never really been sound evaluation of the current policies and programs, in my estimation. and that is a job for the academy to undertake. if you want to make it physically difficult to enter into the united states, build fences do this other stuff and as norman pointed out yesterday, a new bill to give 100 air mile for, a waiver of e

and the deception battle plan is also used in world war ii for the landing at normandy. it's also used in "desert storm" by general schwarzkopf to do an end-around on the republican guard. they use washington's plan. all right. first thing you need is a clear objective, and the clear objective was he needed to march across south jersey being attacked by the british located in new york and on staten island. you have to know the enemy's assumptions, and washington originally was planning to attack new york with the french. the british in new york believed that, and so what you have to do is, that once you know what the enemy believes, you then have to reinforce their belief that that is what you're going to do. so the next thing would be method selection. the options they used. one of the things that he did is, since they were using the french army. the french army, a bulk of their diet is bread, he had brick ovens being built, and they were built in chatham, new jersey. he issued orders for the preparations of building ovens at the highlands, right near sandy hook, and he

things that comes out of tehran is stalin is just insisting this operation overlord, this invasion of normandy, this western front that i've been asking for, it's going to happen, right? yes. we're in the final stages of this planning. it is going to happen. in exchange for that stalin informs roosevelt that once hitler is defeated, once hitler is defeated his nation will declare war on japan. that hadn't happened yet. we're fighting japan in the pacific. soviet union has not declared war on japan. here at tehran stalin tells roosevelt, you guys go ahead with d day, we defeat hitler, and with three months, within three months of hitler's defeat the soviet union will declare war on japan and help you, the americans, defeat this nation. so it's a very friendly kind of cordial meeting. the next time they get together it's a little bit different. in february of 1945 the big three meet for a second time. it's known as the alta conference. this is on the black sea. this time things have changed because if you'll remember from last class period, by the early part of 1945 the red army is driving deep

the statue is of major dick winters who led his battling into normandy. the hbo mini series band of brothers. the memorial will be dedicated on june 6. >>> a mathematical mystery solved by a 16-year-old. the teen seek on a 16-year-old question posed about i, sir, sigh zach newton for a school project. the answer expected to improve precision in area like ballistics. shannon? >> shannon: thank you very much. almost everyone loves to have a party on their birthday and it is no different for planners in san francisco who organized a huge festival to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the golden gate bridge. it it was he hair heralded as n engineering marvel when it open od. >> if you driven by the golden gate bridge you might be surprised to learn it is not a freeway. it is more an island run by a special bridge district that connects two important highways, two counties and two national parks. the golden gate bridge is one of california's most famous landmarks. every year, 10 million visitors and 40 million vehicles. on a nice day there could be he up to 10,

in military history. [ applause ] as a nation, we've long celebrated the courage of our forces at normandyeak ridge. so let us also speak of your courage at way and caison, and saigon, from hamburger hill to rolling thunder. all too often it's forgotten that you, our troops in vietnam, won every major battle you fought in. [ applause ] when you came home, i know many of you put your medals away, tucked them in a drawer or a box in the closet. you went on with your lives. started families and pursued careers. a lot of you didn't talk too much about your service. as a consequence, this nation has not always fully appreciated the chapter of your lives that came next. so let us also tell the story of a generation that came home and how even though some americans turned their back on you, you never turned your back on america. [ applause ] like generations before, you took off the uniform, but you never stopped serving. you became teachers and police officers and nurses. the folks we count on every single day. you became entrepreneurs, running companies and pioneering industries that changed th

when an invasion fleet of 200 ships and 35,000 troops, the largest to leave a great britain until normandy, left england to reconquer the colonies, and every able-bodied man was needed, the continental congress granted a aright of conscientious objection to those quakers who believed that violence was always wrong. from our beginning, even before declaration, before our constitution, this has been the north star of american it believes that no one has a right to interfere with another person's relationship with his or her guard. and try to do so is soul rape. there are three to our freedom. one is around the sanctity of every human life. the idea that we are all in doubt by our creator with certain unalienable rights and among these is a right to life, whether we are normal or not, whether we are terminally ill or not, and whether we have been born or not. if we are a human being we have a right to life. and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and the basic foundation of a unit of american society, of human society, the family. and of religious freedom. i believe we can win this fight to

in military history. [ applause ] as a nation, we've long celebrated the courage of our forces at normandyeak ridge. so let us also speak of your courage at way and caison, and saigon, from hamburger hill to rolling thunder. all too often it's forgotten that you, our troops in vietnam, won every major battle you fought in. [ applause ] when you came home, i know many of you put your medals away, tucked them in a drawer or a box in the closet. you went on with your lives. started families and pursued careers. a lot of you didn't talk too much about your service. as a consequence, this nation has not always fully appreciated the chapter of your lives that came next. so let us also tell the story of a generation that came home and how even though some americans turned their back on you, you never turned your back on america. [ applause ] like generations before, you took off the uniform, but you never stopped serving. you became teachers and police officers and nurses. the folks we count on every single day. you became entrepreneurs, running companies and pioneering industries that changed th

>> reporter: normandy has 20 years in law enforcement and gun sales industry. he says he and others here at this range are also on the look out for illegal activity. >> for maybe something that's uttered by the customer that's wanting to purchase the firearm. >> reporter: authorities say a major source of gun crime involves straw purchases where someone buys a gun specifically for someone else such as a convicted felon who's convicted from having firearms. the bureau of tobacco and firearms say the ring leaders shipped 37 guns using ups and fed ex. at least 14 of the weapons have turned up in bay area crime scenes. >> they landed in vallejo, san francisco, richmond in the hands of convicted felons. one was involved in an attempted murder. >> reporter: back at the gun show that man who offered to sell a gun out of his backpack said he learned his lesson. many here told us they are more aware than ever if they risk breaking the law, someone might be watching. ktvu news. >>> at ktvu.com you can learn more about california's gun laws we have posted a link on the sp

>> reporter: normandy has 20 years in law enforcement and gun sales industry.ys he and others here at this range are also on the look out for illegal activity. >> for maybe something that's uttered by the customer that's wanting to purchase the firearm. >> reporter: authorities say a major source of gun crime involves straw purchases where someone buys a gun specifically for someone else such as a convicted felon who's convicted from having firearms. the bureau of tobacco and firearms say the ring leaders shipped 37 guns using ups and fed ex. at least 14 of the weapons have turned up in bay area crime scenes. >> they landed in vallejo, san francisco, richmond in the hands of convicted felons. one was involved in an attempted murder. >> reporter: back at the gun show that man who offered to sell a gun out of his backpack said he learned his lesson. many here told us they are more aware than ever if they risk breaking the law, someone might be watching. ktvu news. >>> at ktvu.com you can learn more about california's gun laws we have posted a link on the special

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i think the troops that slam the beaches at normandy, i think of all those people who signed up after 9/11 because their country was under attack. i think of america beating back fascism and naziism and the danger they are in. you want to pick out a few examples. any around right but that is not the military. that doesn't represent what we are talking about here. >> that's exactly what i'm saying, sean. i think these incidents may have caused him to think in negative terms. and he is wrong on that. and we should blame the individual people, but we cannot blame the military. the journal almost put the same words i wanted to speak. i think the guy owes an apology to our military heros. we need to honor every veteran out there. it is not them who made the mistakes, it is the wars. we need to blame -- >> maybe -- yeah. >> ultimately blame ourselves. >> blame ourselves? maybe ought to blame our educational system. general, you spent time in your life serving, a as so many other people have served and it seems to be one of the greatest insults. this coming from a major news organization. an

my childhood mentor was someone who bought on the beaches of normandy and fought for europe and was one of the first troops to liberate the internment camps. ralph came back from that experience and was my scout leader and talked about the need for us to be stubborn leaders. he believed stubbornness was not a vice as some would suggest of virtue. he said you just need to be careful what you are stubborn about because you just might make it happen. and i think that is the kind of stubborn leadership we need in america. america needs to be a leader of the world and bias leading individually and working together and everything that has been shared here by taking that bigger view and being contemplated of about one we are doing we need to get to the point where we're drawing leaders of to the future and those leaders wherever they emerge from will help this nation go to a better place and this nation has the duty to take the world to a better place. that has been our history and needs to be our future. thank you. [applause] >> let's thank our panel for a very

i got drunk in normandy and that sort of stuff. what it is that, you know, our culture is very good on don't whine. don't whine. and you don't brag. don't brag. in combat veteran will tell you 95 percent of the time things you want to whine about. it doesn't leave you much to talk about in the culture. so one of the things they was hoping to do with the brooke is start breaking that down a little bit. a little personal history. i grow up in a small town in seaside, oregon. it was a smiewl town. back when i grew up, i think virtually all fathers had been in a world war ii. and we called it the service back then. that was in the uncle was in the service. i think that again, our culture is starting to make a change. i don't hear the service anymore. i hear it called the military. i think that is an interesting switch in language that is happening. that we should think about. and i got a scholarship to yale. and -- and joined the marines because, you know, that was the sort of the thing to do. guys in the high school football team join