pearl harbor is still the herd quarters of u.s. pacific command like it was for all three 20th century wars in the pacific with japan, north korea, and north vietnam, so i started looking into hawaii's bit part in the epic global domination. americans and their children spent 78 years between the arrival of missionaries in 1820 and the american annex asian in 1898 americanizing hawaii importing religion, capitalism, and our second favorite religion, christianity. this parallels the americanization of america. just as their puritan fore borers set off on their era into the wilderness of new england, they set sail for islands that they considered a spiritual wilderness. like nine out of ten natives of the americas were wiped out by contacts with european diseases, so was the native hawaiian population ravaged i smallpox, whooping cough and other diseases. just like the building of the railroads brought in immigrants, the sugar plantations founded by the sons of the missionaries required massive imports of labor from china, korea, por

after all, pearl harbor -- we were bombed at pearl harbor. the germans declared war on the united states. this was not a war chores like the mexican-american war -- this was not a war of choice like the mexican-american war. and the technology, even things we are doing with c-span right now, some of the technology of the film and cable transmissions, the electronic journalism world started changing. everything changed in world war ii. development was intense in so many different area. what about the economic cost? guest: i think it is a small estimate. keep in mind, industrial mobilization -- say a factory in connecticut making women's blouses, suddenly making parachutes. a company that would make horns suddenly was making a ship of valves. that was the miracle of the world war, the way our country pull together and everybody chipped in with the war effort. we do have a great world war ii memorial across from rosenthal's ghraib photographs of -- great photograph of iwo jima. but that is for the marines. this is america's world war ii memorial

after all, pearl harbor -- we were bombed at pearl harbor. the germans declared war on the united states. this was not a war chores like the mexican-american war -- this was not a war of choice like the mexican-american war. and the technology, even things we are doing with c-span right now, some of the technology of the film and cable transmissions, the electronic journalism world started changing. everything changed in world war ii. development was intense in so many different area. what about the economic cost? guest: i think it is a small estimate. keep in mind, industrial mobilization -- say a factory in connecticut making women's blouses, suddenly making parachutes. a company that would make horns suddenly was making a ship of valves. that was the miracle of the world war, the way our country pull together and everybody chipped in with the war effort. we do have a great world war ii memorial across from rosenthal's ghraib photographs of -- great photograph of iwo jima. but that is for the marines. this is america's world war ii memorial

after all, pearl harbor -- we were bombed at pearl harbor.ns declared war on the united states. this was not a war chores like the mexican-american war -- this was not a war of choice like the mexican-american war. and the technology, even things we are doing with c-span right now, some of the technology of the film and cable transmissions, the electronic journalism world started changing. everything changed in world war ii. development was intense in so many different area. what about the economic cost? guest: i think it is a small estimate. keep in mind, industrial mobilization -- say a factory in connecticut making women's blouses, suddenly making parachutes. a company that would make horns suddenly was making a ship of valves. that was the miracle of the world war, the way our country pull together and everybody chipped in with the war effort. we do have a great world war ii memorial across from rosenthal's ghraib photographs of -- great photograph of iwo jima. but that is for the marines. this is america's world war ii memorial. we were

i just -- i was a it's like pearl harbor. it was a failure of imagination, and probably a relatively understandable failure of imagination. >> made a couple of questions from the audience. one is about iraq and vietnam. do you think about the fair comparison? speak with their certainly similarities and there are notable differences between the two. the vietnamese were not likely to come and attack the united states of america. the terrorist threat, the dangers -- in iraq, and was on the terrorist list. the terrorist threat was a very real one to our country. and al qaeda have demonstrated that it would come and attack america. now, there was no direct link between al qaeda and iraq. there certainly was between afghanistan and iraq. and iraq was on the terrorist list. and iraq had a pattern of having to build weapons of mass destruction. so there was -- do with these things that affected it. what i would say that -- or, i think the differences were greater than the similarities, but there certainly were similarities. >> how ab

what followed was a surge in patriotism not seen since pearl harbor, with flags on every street corner signs posted almost everywhere that proclaimed, "god bless america." enormous benefit concerts took place on both coasts, and america was left with a new kind of 21st century hero: the first responder. for a time, our deeply divided country was one again. >> bush: after 9/11, after we resolved that we would defend ourselves, came this great wave of patriotism, where there's a great sense of pride about what we stood for. i'll never forget going to new york and seeing that-- on the one hand, compassion for their fellow citizens, and for the families that were suffering; on the other hand, this great sense of resolve and determination to stand strong in the face of this enemy. >> a sense of coming together, i guess, i think is the best way to describe it. it was a sentiment that extended across party lines in the congress, house and senate, democrat and republican pulled together. millions of people visited those sites in succeeding months, focused on them in one way or another, focused

like so many young people in the wake of pearl harbor, she moved to washington and was determined to try and serve her country. she was single, 30 and unemployed with several failed attempts at a career behind her. she was also looking for a second chance in life, a chance to remake her life, a chance to do something special. she was the daughter of a well-to-do pasadena rancher, she had graduated from smith, but she had spent most of her post-college years, as she admits, as a social butterfly, attending parties and generally having a good time. she was keeping house for her widowed father and living a very sheltered life. she was, by her own account, a pretty plain person with no skills. she didn't speak any languages, and she had never been further out of the country than a day trip to tijuana. she had always felt she was bigger than life. she always thought she was destined for big things. but by 30 they had miserably fail today materialize. still, she was tall, she was very athletic, she was sure she'd be a natural for the army or navy reserves. when she was rejected, the form l

this the 70th anniversary of the bombing of pearl harbor.t's a very somber time at san francisco's national smeochb. a major general u.s. marine corps retired is going to be delivering remarks. i asked him for a preview. >> every memorial day i think that anybody that has led marines, in my case and sailors in combated we always reflected on those young men that died carrying out our orders. i remember the very first marine that was killed what i told him to do. i swore i would never forget him and i would never forget any marine that was killed under my orders. so i have a diary of the dead, i review the names and try to remember them all. >> reporter: very heartfelt, very appropriate remarks on this day. vfw commander is master of ceremonies and i heard him talking about what was like when america entered world war ii. he said it was a wonderful time to be an american because the country was united. tonight on "abc 7 news" at 6:00 we'll be talking with americans about a divided nation very, divided according to the latest poll numbers and

. >> you went to pearl harbor to sing? >> in december, we were at pearl harbor and we sang at a military resort and also the army hospital. we sang for a lot, a lot of veterans. we are so pleased to do it, too. >> they are going to hit it up and share with us. >>> good morning, folks. justashadebefore6:27. youe youeelsee the clock change. aside from the color on 87, a note there is more traffic hitting the roadways. the lower peninsula, we are moving along the speed limit. watch 101 and 280. we end with a shot of the bay bridge, if we can. we want to send that now that the metering lights are turned on, scott. no help there. we are getting help from our friends. >> you are getting help from your friends. bin bing is trying to give competition to google. say you have a bunch of musician friends on facebook and they like it. if they are bomber pilots rksz bing will figure you are looking for a different b-52. better tailored for your taste. >>> a secret memo from the ceo got leaked yesterday talking about pinching pennies. h

this the 70th anniversary of the bombing of pearl harbor.t's a very somber time at san francisco's national smeochb. a major general u.s. marine corps retired is going to be delivering remarks. i asked him for a preview. >> every memorial day i think that anybody that has led marines, in my case and sailors in combated we always reflected on those young men that died carrying out our orders. i remember the very first marine that was killed what i told him to do. i swore i would never forget him and i would never forget any marine that was killed under my orders. so i have a diary of the dead, i review the names and try to remember them all. >> reporter: very heartfelt, very appropriate remarks on this day. vfw commander is master of ceremonies and i heard him talking about what was like when america entered world war ii. he said it was a wonderful time to be an american because the country was united. tonight on "abc 7 news" at 6:00 we'll be talking with americans about a divided nation very, divided according to the latest poll numbers and

she grew up in honolulu and had been a young reporter, the first on the scene after the pearl harbor attack. she was recruited because of her knowledge of japanese and wartime experience. she and jane would disappear for weeks at a time on orientation courses and small arms courses learning to master a submachine gun and a cult .45. after 17 years of high school and college french, julia discovered she couldn't speak a word. when the word went out don von was looking for warm bodies, any bodies to run a new network of intelligence bases in india, beer ma, and china, she volunteered. she didn't care where she went as long as she got to go. there was a man shortage and the newly oss was under staffed. it's important i think to remember when you think of the oss, you think about the military and guerrilla operations. they get all the glory. you think of images of agents parachuting behind enemy lines, but of the 13,000 employees, 4500 were women, the vast majority spent their time writing reports, collecting and analyzing information, and planning missions. the fact that many of the oss

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marvin hume, himself a world war ii veteran, who lost a childhood friend when the japanese attacked pearl harbor body was never recovered, but hume wanted to find a way to salute his sacrifice. >> i thought, here's the last flag in the southern part of our state. what a place to honor my friend. >> reporter: and then in 1973, to honor others who'd perished in service to their country, he ran a single newspaper ad asking for veterans' coffin flags to fly. >> all filled up. >> yeah. every other page we're all filled for the season. >> we are now booking for 2012. and i have just gone through the 2012 calendar and i'm absolutely amazed. >> reporter: the families of some 6,000 veterans have seen their heroes honored on this beach in this way. the sunlight framing an expression of thanks and admiration for all the men and women of america's armed forces. ♪ hume's habit at day's end has always been to make his way to the base of the flagpole to join the family of the veteran whose flag has been raised high. >> being a veteran myself and my wife being a veteran, we thought it was important to be here.

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navy base in pearl harbor, hawaii, during world war ii. holder also countered suggestions that it was illegal to kill bin laden when he was unarmed. >> the operation in which osama bin laden was killed was lawful. he was the head of al qaeda, an organization that had conducted the attacks of september 11th. he admitted his involvement as you indicate. he said he would not be taken alive. the operation against bin laden was justified as an act of national self-defense. >>> china's vice president ping has called on japan to guarantee the safety of food exports. he met in beijing on thursday. shi asked japan to share information on radioactive contamination and resolve the problem swiftly. hato yam ma says he hopes to see the situation brought under control with the help of international experts. shi also asked the japanese government to issue official guarantees for the safety of food exports. following the fukushima nuclear accident, the chinese government effectively suspended all food exports from japan. >> the japanese government should

no they think it was all pearl harbor and then the new use of the atomic weapon against the age of the central film and then color what their lives with here was most least in from fighting soviets you know and also if you talk about america should be different to the world all the you see they did the exactly the same the russians started messing with fans the rush observation the great you all saw most of the children it was busy fighting the soviets and this was never the allies face to. face only faced old men and boys yeah absolutely yes get it was best this truce with fighting the russians and the russians for the message and the principle set the scene. of this with a little he's exploring because he is taking something of this. country's need squares now. seeing a navy regiment so bereans from the three hundred thirty six detached those two guards the baltic feet under the command of brigade commander lieutenant colonel of the guards. the navy's history is full of their old deeds that is glorious for its naval income but tradition says by right the citizens of russia are proud

states on its own shores. 3,000 people were killed on 9/11, the worst attack on american soil since pearl harbor. when bin laden admitted he'd ordered them, he became the world's most wanted man. >> there's an old poster out west as i recall that said, "wanted: dead or alive." >> he was tracked down to the mountains of tora bora after u.s. forces had invaded afghanistan. b-52's bombed the caves he used to hide out, but he escaped over the border into pakistan's tribal areas, and the trail went cold. u.s. special forces found him, not in the tribal areas, but in the pakistani town of abbottabad. he was sheltering in this compound, filmed here after the u.s. raid. just down the road from a pakistani military base. >> it's an odd feeling in the ballpark right now, to be perfectly honest with you. some of the crowd chanting "u.s.a., u.s.a.." >> the news started spreading across the u.s., even before president obama spoke. crowds flocked to times square in new york. soldiers joining the celebrations. >> ♪ god bless america ♪ >> outside the white house, there were chants of "four more years" for obama

one the bombing of pearl harbor. according to then president franklin roosevelt a date that launched f.d.r.'s calls for production of hundreds of thousands each of planes tanks and guns over a few years to fight the war factories were converted and the nation got the job done. most. a sight unseen in response to today's challenges i think that right now. the country is in a state of paralysis and we keep saying somebody else has got to step up do it the people who are coming in to build things are the japanese and the germans over the decades the challenges may change but the country has always faced new ones who are extraordinary times and we. grow. that question fifty years after kennedy said those words as if a country can still rise to meet them. lauren lyster r.t. washington d.c. . now earlier i spoke with chris chambers a professor of journalism at georgetown university about what happened to this there was a dancer. a lot of it has to do unfortunately with the media but let me let me just put all that in conte

the bombing of pearl harbor. according to the then president franklin roosevelt a date that launched f.d.r.'s calls for production of hundreds of thousands each of planes tanks and guns over a few years to fight the war factories were converted and the nation got the job done. a sight unseen in response to today's challenges i think that right now the country is in a state of paralysis and we keep saying somebody else is going to step up to it the people who are coming in to build things for the japanese and germans over the decades the challenges may change but the country has always faced new ones these are extraordinary times and we an extraordinary challenge the question fifty years after kennedy said those words is if a country can still rise to meet them. right lauren lyster r.t. washington d.c. . earlier i spoke to arthur m. professor emeritus of economics at university of massachusetts richard well i asked him if the country can rise up to meet these challenges and why not here's part of the conversation

nine forty one the bombing of pearl harbor. according to then president franklin roosevelt a date that launched f.d.r.'s calls for a production of hundreds of thousands each of planes tanks and guns over a few years to fight the war factories were converted and the nation got the job done. and we have. a sight unseen in response to today's challenges i think that right now. the country is in a state of paralysis and we keep saying ok somebody else has got to step up and do it the people who are coming in to build things are the japanese or the germans over the decades the challenges may change but the country has always faced new ones these are extraordinary times and we an extraordinary challenge the question fifty years after kennedy said those words is if a country can still rise to meet them. lauren the stir r.t. washington d.c. . when it comes to addressing unemployment a crumbling infrastructure the need for drastic ever form of immigration the need to acknowledge the climate change exists our country does seem stuck we'r

in honolulu and she had been a young reporter at one of the very first on the scene after the pearl harbor attack. she was recruited by the oss because of her working knowledge of japanese and her wartime experience. sheehan julia would disappear -- sheehan jane would disappear for weeks at a time on orientation courses and small-arms courses where they learn how to master a thompson submachine gun and a cold 45. julia was desperate to go to france, but after 17 years of high school and college friend she discovered she couldn't. >> a word. she had no special skill to recommend her overseas there were so when the word went out that donovan was looking for warm bodies, anybody's, to help set up and running network of new intelligence bases in india, burma and china, she immediately volunteered. she didn't care where she went, as long as she got to go and there was a man shortage and a newly formed oss was woefully understaffed. it is important thing to remember that when you think of the oss, you generally think about that paramilitary and guerrilla operations. they get all the glory. you k

betty had grown up in honolulu and been a young reporter and one of the very first after the pearl harbor attack. she was rekriewsd because of her working knowledge and her wartime experience. she and jane would disappear for weeks at a time at orientation courses where they learned thousand master a gun and a cult 45. she was desperate to go to france but after 17 years of high school and college french she discovered she couldn't speak a word. so when the word went out that donovan was looking for warm bodies. anybodies to help set up and run a new intelligence bases in india, she immediately volunteered. she didn't care where she went as long as she got to go and there was a man shortage and the newly formed oss was willfully understaffed. i think it's important to remember that when you think about about the oss young about the gorilla operations they get all the glory. young of agents power shoot little behind enemy lines but the fact of the matter is up to 45 a 00 were women, the vast majority spent their time writing reports. collecting and analyzing information. and planning missi

roosevelt got a bump for 46 weeks after pearl harbor.ump for george bush that lasted seven weeks. the question is, do we live in a country that has political bumps? >> this is going to be the true test for that. i think he will get some kind of a bump. this was such a major thing for the last ten years. i mean, we haven't thought about it much. but it's such a big deal. this was the mastermind of 911. but, no, i would be very surprised six months from now if we're not talking about, you know, how bad the economy is still hurting president obama. but what it does do is talk about his leadership abilities and quiets at least for now the narrative that americans were trying to create that he's the spectator in chief, as newt gingrich has said, and does not believe in conceptualism. it allows them to interrupt this narrative. as far as a bump, i don't know. >> i love the reality check this morning in politico. george h.w. bush writes, my guy took down the berlin wall and won the gulf war but it didn't matter. this election is about three thi

formerly stationed at pearl harbor, hawaii, u.s.s.ronx. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: all right. it's going to be fun. what's your name? >> my name is corporal munoz. i'm from 6th motor transport battalion. and i'm here to motivate my marines. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how long are you here for now? just a week? >> i'm stationed down at the shore in jersey. >> jimmy: so you're there with snooki and the situation? [ laughter ] someone's got to keep them in line. all right, so you guys know how the game works. we have to pick a bucket number and then we'll dump that bucket on your head. but first let's find out what's in some of today's buckets. >> well, we have baked beans, brown gravy, glittery confetti, maple syrup, chocolate syrup, melted ben and jerry's "late night" snack ice cream or $100. jimmy? >> jimmy: very good. here we go. [ cheers and applause ] all right, buddy. you go first. audience, do you want to help him out? what number should he pick? [ audience shouting ] >> i'm going to go with number four, jimmy. >> j

. >> when bombs fell on pearl harbor, when an iron curtain fell over europe, when the threat of nuclear war loomed just 90 miles from this city, when a brilliant september morning was darkened by terror, in none of those instances did we falter. we endured. we carried the dream forward. >> well, the raid was scheduled to take place on april 30, saturday, but weather delayed the operation by one day, allowing the president to try his hand at comedy at the white house correspondents' dinner. as the hours closed in on the plot to take out bin laden, president obama took a shot at donald trump's decision making ability on "the celebrity apprentice." pay close attention to the last line. >> you, mr. trump, recognize that the real problem was lack of leadership, and so ultimately you didn't blame l'il john or meatloaf. you fired gary busey. and these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. [ laughter ] >> wow. i think we knew what kept the president up that night. anyway, up next, what a story. >>> up next -- the death of osama bin laden may prove to be a defining moment for

like so many young people in the wake of pearl harbor, she moved to washington to try to serve her country. she was single and 30 and unemployed lists several attempts of a career also looking for a second chance to remake her life and to do something special. she was the daughter of a well-to-do pasadena rancher but spent most college years as a social butterfly and a lot of time playing golf and tennis and having a good time at parties. she was keeping house for her widowed father and living a very sheltered life and was a pretty plain person with no skills by her own account. she did not speak any languages and has never been further from the country from a day trip van tiajuana mexico. she thought she was bigger than life and destined for big things. but by 30 they had failed to materialize. very tall and athletic ensure should be n. natural for the army or navy reserves. then it rejected as too tall she was bitterly disappointed. she used family connections and got a job at the board department. low-level job and she was a typist and she lows dipping she was determined to get promoted

[laughter] it was telling to spend the morning at a historic site like pearl harbor. it sited the preemptive war as a betrayal of american ideals. the sub text of the dissent was this is not who we are. none of you are standing where i was. it was hard to see the look in their eyes talking about the american flag flying over the palace and not realize from 1898, from time to time, this is who we are. what's more, hawaii is just as theodore roosevelt predicted, crucial to the american's empire military presence in the pacific. it is still the headquarters of u.s. pacific command as it was for all three of america's 20th century wars in the pacific with japan, north korea, and north vietnam, so i started looking into hawaii's part in the epic of american global domination. americans and their children spent the 78 years between the arrival of missionaries in 1820 and the american annexization in 1898, americanizing hawaii, importing our favorite religion, capitalism, and second favorite religion, christianity. in certain ways, the americanization of hawaii in the 19th c

coming to this site, 9/11 so analogous, going to pearl harbor and remembering world war ii and remembering way for the president to say, we keep our promises. we promised we'd remember you and we're doing that. just as important for this white house, wolf, as you know, has been a sense that getting bin laden was about keeping a promise to the world that we would do justice, that we would seek justice as we would not let him go unpunished. and what's in the white house right now is a very quiet sense of satisfaction that we have sent a message that we will keep our promises, we will be persistent and we have the reach and capability to keep our promises. they think that's very important message to send to the middle east and against al qaeda all around the world. >> and we're looking at these live pictures from the site. security obviously very intense. we see some family members there getting ready. the president will be going there. he'll be laying this wreath, as we've been saying. talk a little bit, david, about the decision to have rudy giuliani, the mayor, the former mayor of new york

. >> i think democrats should put a poster up, like remember pearl harbor, remember george bush undern the way. >> i think foreign policy is going to be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign, it will probably be because there is bad foreign policy news rather than good. these are halos that can dim very fast. but if the white house can transition from this being a policy victory and operational victory to this being a character victory, then i think you do have a substantial shift in the president's fortune. if he can be seen as somebody who does not lead from behind, as we've heard recently, who is decisive, who is somehow more in tune with the security of america and defending the americans, then i think that will be an important issue during the campaign and will make it harder for a republican going up against him to say we have a weak president who is not acting in our interests. >> bob woodward, the "economist" covered this, too, which was very forward-looking, because it has, of course, osama bin laden there, but it says "now, kill his dream." the proving ground for that is thi

in july 1941, before pearl harbor, roosevelt signed an executive order, very short executive order, about two pages, very, very vague. it said that colonel donovan, because he is been a colonel in world war i, will collect information for me of national importance, and he will do other unspecified duties. and this was setting up an organization called coordinator of information, later became a office of strategic services, the oss as we know it. initially he was corridor of information. it was such a big order that roosevelt other cabinet officers started scratching their heads thinking, what the heck is this guy up to? what are you getting into? he had to send out follow-up memos to explain exactly what this coordinator of information business was all about. donovan like to say that he began his unit, his oss, from minus zero. in effect he really only started out with one guy, which was "wild bill" donovan. and in the beginning he was kind of like a player in a pickup basketball game looking for agents or operations or covers, wherever really he could find them. so for example, the faile

did with admiral moto during the second world war after he was the mastermind on the attack of pearl harbor. >> move to libya. i don't want to move across the geographic world too quickly but move to libya where we bombed libya and gadhafi in 1986 i believe it was. then thereafter we moved to diplomatic recognition. we tried to bring him into the orbit of the world, of the league of nations, not literally the league but those who abid by international law. now we're back to bombing his headquarters in tripoli again, killing parts of -- members of his family. does this make sense to you, either operationally, morally or legally? >> i think this is a lot more problematic. we went in on the basis of the u.s. mandate, the u.n. mandate, and that was about defensive action. it's a very strange argument that that would include trying to take out gadhafi but it does seem to be -- gadhafi is in a very different case. i'd be interested in hearing walter's view. very different case. >> excuse me, i'm sorry, david. walter, i'm leaving the toughest question for you. you justify the u.s. government's par

that took down more lives and materiel than pearl harbor. >> and maybe that's part of the reason why it felt so vulnerable to us. for that generation, especial they young generation, who had grown up in part under the cold war ending in that period where vietnam was over and no other war came it was much more of a shock than it would be if this had happened right after world war ii or in the middle of vietnam where we were too accustomed to... and the middle of the cold war. but that vulnerability, i agree with you. i think somehow that vulnerability may be reduced right now and if we can reduce it in ourselves and increase hit in the people still out there wanting to do the bad things against us, because they'll be tracked down and even though those cells are out there, maybe they'll be more fearful if that shift were in good faith. >> and not just fear, the other specter is uncertainty. >> right. >> osama left a certain uncertainty. he's still throughout? what are we doing? what do we know about what he's doing? only a year ago you had folks in washington saying we haven't had any

for my parents, it was pearl harbor. there have been other moments of national celebration and crisis. the landing on the moon, the explosion of the challenger space shuttle, the inauguration of america's first african american president. and there will be many more. but before this most recent memory becomes a memory -- this recent moment becomes a memory and because all of you have had such a big part in it, let's take a moment to reflect on the legacy of 9/11 beyond the ongoing war on terror and what it means for the future of our democracy. i was elected mayor just two months after the attacks on 9/11 when smoke was still rising from the rubble at ground zero. back then the conventional wisdom was that it would take new york decades to recover, if it ever would. people thought businesses would flee and there would be a mass exodus to spoibs and that crime would return. none of that happened. and i will tell you why. our city, in fact our whole country did not give into fear. we came together as never before and did e

you know, when you think about what we were able to do and manufacturer and produce after pearl harborthis is what we must start to think about in united states of america and get back to. but i think that we can reinvest those savings. we can make the department of defense more effective and more efficient but it has to be done focused on what are the tools that the war-fighter needs to be successful? and, yes, you know, we have to look at how do we project that power being it over the horizon because you look at a lot of these countries, the one thing they have in common are the -- and how do we go back into our infantry forces and the air forces but we need to retain a strong landphair, armored warfare type of force and that's where it comes back to having that national security roadmap where you sit down and you look at the respective areas of responsibility. meet with the combat and commanders and really understand what they need to be successful. we've got to have a dwell time for our men and women that is one year in the combat, two years out. 'cause you're killing them right no