they made their famous charge through a storm of whistling lead, up the slopes of san juan hill.he first to win army medals of honor on foreign soil, 81 navy and marine corps fighting men were also awarded the medal. this first conflict by american ground forces outside our nation's borders was brief, but it was a hint of things to come. america's growth, the prospering of the adventurous idealism on which it was founded, these were making the united states a world power. a position of world leadership unsought but unavoidable was even then being thrust upon the nation. this time it was no isolated conflict. this time the challenge to freedom and the involvement of free men in it were at such a scale that a name never used before in man's history was created to describe it: the world war. from our perspective in history, the first world war. but for the doughboy, it was hundreds of thousands. it was the world war. on a personal level, it was perhaps very little different from any war any time. >> where did that charger go? we're due to move out any -- wow. take your time, sarge,

not the teddy roosevelt of his earlier rough rider phase, leading from ahead the charge up san juan hill. nor the teddy roosevelt in his last phase as a champion of nationalist -- but the teddy roosevelt of the middle period. as the budding leader of the progressive. which, of course, is the label that barack obama and other democrats on the left have chosen for themselves today. all of which brought barack obama to his roots in the small town of osawatame. answering his political dream by rediscovering its paternity in that very place. in the very place where teddy roosevelt had pronounced one of his most famous speeches. obama's speech has been touted as the document that represents his program or vision for the nation today. it is the platform for the 1912 campaign. and what a difference in tone from 2008. when obama preached unity and slightly stretching lincoln a bit, he spoke of a figure who called on a house divided on itself to stand together. that wasn't quite the lincoln i remember. but now, in any case, with teddy roosevelt looking over his shoulder, obama has made the line of

one of them perhaps, you take teddy roosevelt away from san juan hill, nobody knows about it. 215 people were killed at little big horn, 1 million were killed in the siege of lennengrad. so 9/11, we in fresno, i live about 30 miles outside on a farm and we have two skyscrapers sort of, and on any given day, there were skyscrapers that worked. had those been eliminated, terrible to even think about it, it would not have the same repercussions on american culture and life. this was 20 acres, almost two kilo tons of constructive force in the nation's artistic capital, in the nation's literary capital, people who write our books, people who write our homes, people who dictate what our portfolios are going to look like, people who craft the federal reserve, all of the people who could see this happen, this will have ripples that will emanate through generations, it will have an affect on art, i don't know if people take a piece of metal and twist it and say it art, it will make a seriousness about literature that we may have lost. and a lot of ideologies and i admit that most of you wouldn't

one of them perhaps you take teddy roosevelt away from san juan hill, nobody knows about it. nobody -- 215 people were killed at little big horn. one million were killed in the siege of lenangraph. so there is an unfairness that gives weight to particular battles and not others, so 9-is 1 as we in fresno, i -- 4-11, as we in fresso --1, as we in fresno, and we have sky scrappers, had those two skyscrapers had been it would not have the same repurr indication. this was -- have the same results. this was in the nation's literary capital. people who write our books, our poems, people who dictate what our portfolios will look like, people who craft the federal reserve. all of these people were involved or could see this happen. and this will have ripples and the same thing with the pentagon. i think that it will change something about art. i'm not sure that anybody takes a piece of metal and twist it anymore and say that it is art. it will make a seriousness about literature that we may have lost. a lot of ideology and here i think i would probably admit that most of you wouldn't

. >>> pleasant hill police say the city's first homicide in two years was not a random attack. investigators say 21-year-old michael de juan jones of sany night. he was in front of a house around 10:00 p.m. when he was shot and killed in what witnesses describe was a drive-by shooting. neighbors are rattled. >> i'm trying to put the whole light fixture in. boom, boom, boom. >> hopefully they'll come back here. >> witnesses say a blue saturn raced from the scene after the shots were fired some of the far no arrests have been made. >>> in oakland police are investigating the city's 15th homicide of the year. a woman died and a man is in critical condition after someone fired a gun at them as they sat together in a car. it happened just before 6:00 yesterday morning outside an apartment complex on 35 the and alandale avenues. police do not have a motive and no arrests have been made. >>> oakland police arrested man in connection with a hit and run crash that sent a woman to the hospital. witnesses say a red sheavey suburban ran her down on international boulevard at 80th avenue yesterday. she was reportedly in that crosswalk waving her ar