the great irony is that when cust sicily simon best estate over, the title over to the federal government we on one side in signing the title and on the other side was the secretary of war robert todd lincoln, abraham lincoln. soviet you had a son of lee and the son of lincoln agreeing on something and i would say that was the beginning of somee that we could reunite north and south again. it took a while but that was the begiing of the reunion. >> and we are going to walk back here to the first time of the unknown soldiers. >> yes, one of the great traditions at arlington is honoring thend on soldiers. lost in the war. and the first instance of that came just after the civil war when quartermaster general montgomery meigs center recovery teams out into the battlefields around washington within a 30-mile radius of washington to recover on on soldiers. from that war. they brought them here to this part of arlington. this was the recovery of the dead, the unknowns, spotsylvania, the other great battlefields and montgomery meigs had a huge pit dug here at this spot and have them buried in a

in the room to talk about what this day meant to her and to see all of the heroes in the room from sicily. >> how about a couple of lines on mary j. blige, please. >> mary j. had two incredible songs last year for powerful projects. she had the stronger song for the lebron james film "more than a game." he h she had a strong on that soundtrack and also a song on "precious," not only has he been creating the soundtrack to im with women's live, but also the documentary and the film "precious," it was wonderful to pay tribute to her as well. >> let me give you a couple minutes to work on the next question. 20 years ago when i was 5 years old, i was working fork "entertainment tonight" and interviewing the stars of black hollywood, and the frustration then was where are the good roles for black actors. when will hollywood be truly color blind in the most culturely, racially, ethnically diverse country in the world and when will black hollywood be the deal-making, green-lighting, producing -- you know where i'm driving here? >> absolutely. >> are those still the questions being asked? look, yo

and come to america from sicily and had known hardly any english and gone on to earn his ph.d. at columbia and become a teacher of romance languages at brooklyn college and his father was quite distinguished and had won a very prestigious fellowships of florence in 1934. i said it was noted in "the new