and this request it comes from the united states army intelligence and security command which collects intelligence for combat operations so how would this new software be useful in that respect. well i mean we know that america has this. kill this that is signed off by the american president every tuesday morning where they can go out and target a so-called terrorist suspects across north africa across central asia across the middle east and take them out with drone strikes there is no due process there is no rule of law and this is just what the intelligence agencies assessed to be problematic people who might well be involved in terrorist attacks attacks in the future and they are assessed natives and we've seen this drone program take out whole villages village councils wedding parties right across great swathes of the planet so they're beginning to use this new algorithmic software in this way that can potentially target people i think people need to be even more frightened across creates with the planet. as you said before you know the u.s. has continually accused russia of using

look at the buttons on there, the united states army buttons. they're united states army collar insignia, i was supposed to be given the consideration of an officer of my rank. and so she said, i was in the united states army. >> so this was 1977. did congress pass a law? >> yes, they did. they gave the remaining 48 signal corps telephone operators full veteran status along with the women service pilots from world war ii. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and we are back at our set here at the world war i museum and memorial in kansas city. we have about 45 minutes left to go. we're very much enjoying your telephone calls as part of the process here. so keep them coming in. lots of family history we've been learning. let me introduce you to our final guest who is a military historian and a retired member of the military, richard faulkner. has a ph.d. in american history from kansas state university and taught 15 years at the command and general staff college at ft. leavenworth. military history. he's also the author of a book called pershi

for the next two years, he served as congressional legislative liaison officer in the office united states army liaison division. as the primary link between house members, their staff and the committees along with the army, he has provided insight and understanding of army policies, actions, operations and requirements. his firsthand knowledge to the military, culture and tradition has been of tremendous value to congressional offices. sergeant major hawkins was effective in his service to members and staff as he escorted them on fact finding and oversight delegations within and outside the united states. members and staff found him to be thoughtful, intelligent, dedicated soldier in the very best traditions of america's armed forces. mr. speaker, it's been a pleasure to know and serve with sergeant major hawkins as fellow and legislative liaison officer in the house of representatives. on behalf of a grateful nation, it is my honor to recognize the selfless service and sacrifice of sergeant major robert "bobby" hawkins and his family. i wish sergeant major hawkins the very best. i yield back,

and they are serving in the united states army. i am a vietnam veteran. i'm going to tell you something. i am for veterans first. anybody who is a veteran, they should get the job first. and as far as the dreamers who serve? they are united states citizens to me. and puerto ricans are a part of the country. people should look at the latin community different when they have uniforms on and they're willing to bleed for this country. they should have preferential treatment. they shouldn't have to go through this. i beg to differ with republicans in congress. they should have passed the daca bill a long time ago. and i don't see why they don't do it. i think they're lazy. that is what it is. they are lazy. they are letting the latin community carry their load and that is my comment. host: how many dreamers do serve in the military? the original act did have a path to citizenship or going to college which has been talked about in conjunction with this. that i don't have the exact numbers but there are definitely dreamers in the military. wondering, the immigra

with iraq and with thirty but i believe the main geopolitical objective here is for the united states to have a good army in syria that could ensure the united states. foothold on syrian soil prevents the syrian government from extending its control over to the. northeast part of syria this region is crucial for the united states because it links syria to iraq and if this happens the united states feels that it would influence would be forgotten by this and that he didn't know turkey's clearly doesn't seem convinced by rex tillerson is what does it it's going back to this old mantra as though the u.s. having broken its promises to ankara do you think that turkey is just milking this spots now. well i believe that is very much water used with this development especially that the number of troops amounts to thirty thousand was declared by the pentagon and this would ensure that the kurds would have a striking force right on the border of turkey and this could encourage the kurds of eastern turkey to step up their demands up to. the demand of autonomy or even independence from turkey this has been put on th

look at the buttons the united states army buttons. they're united states army collar for the signal core and as an officer. event though i was not an officer i was supposed to be given the consideration of an officer of my rank. and so she said i was in the united states army. >> so this was 1977. did congress pass a law? >> they did. they gave the remaining 48 cig kal noer telephone operators full veteran status. along with the women service pilots from world war ii. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we are back at our set here at the world war i museum. and the memorial in kansas city. we have about 45 minutes left to go. we're very much enjoying your telephone calls. keep them coming in. lots of good family history we have been learning. our final guest who is a military historian and retired member of the military. richard fauk ner. has a phd and taught 15 years at the command and general staff college at fort eleven worth. so you've had a lot of military history. why are you particularly interested nd world war i? >> good q

. >> during world war ii the united states army air forces formed a group of african-american military pilots. they were known as the tuskeegee airmen. next, jeremy paul amic, author of "together as one" is joined by the now 94-year-old mr. shipley to talk about his wartime experiences. the kansas city public library hosted the event. it is just over 50 minutes. >>> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the kansas city public library. i'm deputy director carrie kucagn, we're so happy you're here tonight. i want to let you know tonight is our final program for 2017. can you believe it? it's kind of bittersweet. anyway, if you're new here, if you've never been before, please pick up our program. and you can sign up and you can be on our list for all of the programs we have coming up in 2018. and we have programs both here and at central library two or three times a week and we'd love to have you come and we'd love to have you sign up. and we'd love to have you bring your friends. so please sign up. tonight we're so honored to have james shipley with us. mr. shipley enlisted at j

cleckley, united states army, retired. i did 28 years of service in the military. y corps. i was a weekend warrior, part-time soldier, and i was active duty. and i am proud to be a 28-year veteran serving this country. i was raised in the south. i was raised since i was born in the south. my mother rais my father abandoned us. she struggled to keep us fed and trained us well. and i know that i got my strength and my perseverance from watching my mother. with my dreams, i knew i wanted to graduate from high school. i wanted to go to college. i couldn't go to college, 'cause we didn't have the funds. so i had to find that vehicle to go to college. and, so, it ended up being the vehicle to go to college was the military. once i went in, i set my goal to get to the highest rank i could possibly get to. i worked hard at every job, but i never lost that sight of that dream to get a college degree. >> general cleckley's success has come with its share of heartache. her husband, gus, died suddenly, at age 41, leaving julia a single mom. >> and he was a medic and he was woun

in some ways, they were headed for this philosophical boneyard in the united states army, there was really no place for them in the world of tanks, armor -- back in the truck entering on the radio and the hear this thing happening. and they know immediately that something is going to happen to them. but they do not know what it is. if you remember back then, if you looked in the pentagon on how to invade a country, there was no plan for afghanistan. plan b would have been to a mass 60,000 troops from a neighboring country and send them in the red the invasion of iraq in 1991 -- like the invasion of iraq in 1991. so there was pressure for them to do something soon. it seems to be that america was behind this move, and they had to do something. so tommie francis's plan was thrown out the window. they had to do some engineering within this russian forces community and these guys got the job. -- the special forces community. there were told that their job was to go into afghanistan, kick the taliban out of the country safe, capturelace the city of mosul sharif in the north, then they can go to

cleckley, united states army, retired. i did 28 years of service in the military. kend warrior, part-time soldier, and i was active duty. and i am proud to be a 28-year veteran serving this country. i was raised in the south. i was raised since i was born in the south. my mother raised five of us. my father abandoned us. she struggled to keep us fed and trained us well. and i know that i got my strength and my perseverance from watching my mother. with my dreams, i knew i wanted to graduate from high school. i wanted to go to college. i couldn't go to college, 'cause we didn't have the funds. go to college. and, so, it ended up being the vehicle to go to college was the military. once i went in, i set my goal to get to the highest rank i could possibly get to. i worked hard at every job, but i never lost that sight of that dream to get a college degree. >> general cleckley's success has come with its share of heartache. her husband, gus, died suddenly, at age 41, leaving julia a single mom. >> and he was a medic and he was wounded in vietnam. he stepped on a mine. a

is the highest award the united states can bestow on a person for bravery above and beyond the call of duty. - well, the medal of honor came about because the united states army actually did not have any medals to give to its soldiers prior to the civil war. today, of course, you have to pretty much do a very heroic act, something that's distinctly either save lives or saves a situation. in the civil war, you didn't have to do that. a lot of times a soldier would get a medal of honor for just picking up a dropped flag. but today, though, you actually hae to do something in combat with an enemy force, and that's a little bit different than some of the medal of honors that were given out in the past. (inspiring strong music) - how tall are you? for accuracy, you should really answer this question early in the day. scientists have proven that you are about 1% taller in the morning. that's because of the effect of gravity. as the day goes on, the weight of the world is literally pushing you down, making you shorter. so, if you want to know your true height, measure yourself as soon as you get out of bed. (exciting lighthearted music) - during the middle ages, gir

united states have? it's quite clear to everybody and i'll show you one person in particular that the united states has no intention of sending the united states army into that to try to straighten it out and figure it out. it is equally clear that woodrow wilson did not want to do this bill the power of economics. he did not want to tie the resources of the united states economy into figuring out how to solve the problems of central and eastern europe. he had questions about whether it was legal for him to do so, giving that most of those assets were in private hands and he had moral questions about how to do it. i have a british colleague of mine who insists that this came from his presbyterian background. i'm not presbyterian so i have to trust his analysis on this. he's a religious historian. forcing people to convert to his ideas was the wrong way to do it. they had to see the wisdom in wilson's ideas for what they were, thus all of his appeals as jennifer said to the publics of europe over the heads of their leaders. could a league of nations do something like this? could you create an international organization that could go in and somehow m

are hundred seventy four thousand afghan national army soldiers that have been trained by the united states army and allies all the multinational forces there twice so i think if we have six cases that's six too many of course but given the percentage when you're when you look at an army comes is just a cover cloth from the society from which it comes some some of these types of problems unfortunately are going to come with that so what the military does is they they've got a system for reporting and they've got a system for finding this and so general nicholson over there in afghanistan four star used to work for me when i was a deputy commanding general of all the troops there he's a great guy and he's four star general and i'm sure that he's going to get to the bottom of this now that's been brought to his attention and sometimes you know it's just a very bifurcated area fighting from valley to valley mountain to mountain and in. reporting structures and so forth unacceptable behavior and it's unacceptable that we continue support these searchers units or where these folks came from most of t

she is still a soldier in the united states army. >> the dod director you were referencing is a regular order to active duty for 270 days may not be a nominee or candidate for civil office unless the secretary grants permission. do you think she will get permission? >> don't know if she will even ask permission was whether she will get permission is an interesting question. there are circumstances where permission has been granted and the main consideration is whether or not it would affect the soldiers active duty service. in chelsea's case she is not performing any military duties at this time given her status but there is a possibility that based upon that the secretary could grant permission to run for office. i don't know if there has been evidence of this request. >> do you think she should get permission? >> interesting issue. i don't think the army has any interest in keeping active duty service so this might be a case where the secretary would decide given her status, it is unlikely she would ever return to active service, would be a situation where permission should be granted

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states army band. ♪ ♪ when you walk through a storm ♪of the dark ♪ ♪ at the end of a storm is a golden sky ♪ ♪ and the sweet silver song of our lark ♪ ♪ and gone through the wind, walk on through the rain ♪ ♪ though your dreams be tossed and blown ♪ ♪ walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart ♪ ♪ and your -- you'll never walk alone ♪ ♪ your neighbor -- you'll never walk alone ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic leader of the united states house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. [applause] >> mr. president, mr. vice president and mrs. pence, to our distinguished speaker, majority leader mcconnell, leader chuck schumer, it's honored to be here with so many friends of senator dole and so many colleagues. i first want to pay tribute to the sponsors of the resolution, congresswoman jenkins, congressman wit, steny hoyer and senator leahy. thank you for your leadership and getting this done so expeditiously. it's fitting that -- that was ant applause line. sorry. [applause] it's fitting that we meet here in the ro

she proudly served, as i said, this country in the united states army. altogether she's been serving our nation for -- honorably for 19 years. an incredible record. mr. speaker, i ask my colleagues to recognize the outstanding service of teresa dimaggio and her strong commitment to supporting our veterans and her example that she has set for all of us. we cannot thank you enough for your service to our country. congratulations on a job well done, and god bless. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson, for five minutes. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today just hours before our 45th president, donald trump, will deliver his first state of the union address. members of congress and guests will fill this chamber tonight to hear the president speak about a host of issues impacting america. from economic growth to trade deals and infrastructure investments to immigration reform. i look forward to hearing the president speak about the administrat

later i learned that in world war i, negros were not accepted as flyers in the united states army.in europe, thousands of americans touring the continent descended on london hoping to find safe passage home, only to find themselves unable to obtain accommodations or tickets for the few ships sailing. a 40-year-old mining engineer and financier from iowa by the name of herbert hoover, was living in london in 1914. hoover organized an american relief committee that provided food, shelter, and financial food, shelter, and financial assistance to over 100,000 americans. hoover's leadership earned him the respect of the u.s. ambassador to great britain walter heinz-page. ambassador page tapped hoover to lead a relief mission to belgium after the battle of the marn, belgium faced starvation. germany had invaded but refused to take responsibility for feeding the populous. on the other side, britain's naval blockade prevented ships from entering belgian ports. on october 22nd, 1914, herbert hoover established an organization to procure and deliver food to the starving belgian population, r

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states army band. ♪ when you walk through a storm, .oldr head up high -- he afraidafraid of the dark. a storm is a silversky and the sweet song of a lark. gone through the wind, walk on through the rain, though your and blown.ossed on, with hope in never --t, and your alone.never walk never walk alone. ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the, craddick leader of the united states house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. rep. pelosi: mr. president, mr. , mrs. pence, to our distinguished speaker, it isty leader mcconnell, an honor to be here. i want to pay tribute to the responses of the resolution, roberts,an senator lee and representative hoyer. that was applause worthy. [applause] is getting that we met here where american forged extraordinary progress for our nation are memorialized in marble and bronze. in the company of eisenhower, anthony,ncoln, susan b we come to honor another american hero, senator robert dole. honor thisileged to leader of great integrity, deep dignity, and extraordinary courage. we are blessed to be

. >> it shows the respect that the south koreans and the united states army has for our soldiers. >> reporter: a lab in hawaii made the positive identification. the army will fly him home sunday with full military honors. >> and it's nice to see him getting some recognition of what he did. you know, it's pretty hard. >> reporter: leonard's relatives plan to bury him at holy cross cemetery in the family plot so he can be reunited with his parents. the funeral and burial will be held tuesday, january 23 at the presidio in san francisco, amber lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of mexico and the gulf of california this morning. the usgs said the epicenter was 50 miles northeast. so far there are no reports of damage or injury. the quake also failed to trigger synonymy warnings. >>> active weather hitting parts of the bay area right now. let's get the latest. >>> we started the day with lots of sunshine. it's with these systems, the cold front moves through and you get lingering instability. sunshine pops out and you see clouds. this is san jose show

on october 3rd, united states army rangers and elite delta force operators had set out on a mission toarlord in mogadishu, somalia. things went bad fast. the horrific images of what became known as "black hawk down" were broadcast worldwide. while america watched in horror, jean lewis, at the rtc, was still hard at work, sending nine new criminal referrals to the u.s. attorney's office. on halloween day, 1993, the washington postreported on the referrals and their links to the clintons. >> there was nothing standard about the investigation of madison guaranty savings and loan, and i think a lot of that was attributable to the fact it was politically charged, because it identified bill and hillary clinton. >> three days later, associate attorney general webb hubbell, former law partner of hillary clinton, recused himself from all whitewater matters. suddenly, the questions surrounding whitewater were landing on the front page. >> when investigators were barred from foster's office, there was suspicion aides were hiding documents about the clintons' involvement in a failed arkansas land

his country in the united states army during the vietnam war. following his discharge, made his way to san francisco and settled into the castro, where he met harvey melk and was an integral part of the melk machine. whenever harvey needed bodies, he called dennis, who had, at that time, a cannabis operation, obviously not legal at that time. dennis could turn people out at a moment's notice and did a lot to help harvey. he met and fell in love with his partner jonathan west in 1990. jonathan was diagnosed with aids and was dying and dennis still involved with cannabis would give jonathan cannabis and the cannabis that jonathan received gave him substantial relief from the symptoms of aids. it helped him eat. it relieved pain. in the early case, many of the diseases that people were struck with were incredibly painful, whether it was the sarcoma lesions, which were unbelievably painful, or some of the bacterial infections that made it hard to eat, and hard to swallow. and so out of that came really the origins of the medical cannabis movement. d

. >> it shows the respect that the south korea ans and united states army has for our soldiers. >> reporter: a lab in hawaii made the positive identification. the army there l. fly him home on sunday with full military honors. >> it is nice to see him getting some recognition of what he did. you know, it's pretty hard. >> reporter: leonard's relatives plan to bury him at hole owe cross cemetery in the family plot so he can be reunited with his parents. the funeral and burial will be held january 23rd. at the pre sid owe in san francisco, amber lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> coming up next on mornings on 2 the 9, a very big day for bay area rapid transit. as a handful of new cars are finally going into service. the special events being planned for today to mark the occasion and a look at bart's new fleet of the future. >>> and a selfie led to a murder conviction. up next, how an item in this picture led police to the killer of an 18-year-old canadian woman. she was falling farther homeworand farther behind.ttle. we thought if we pushed harder.... but pushing harder didn't work.. sylvan worked. sy

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he served the country and served his country in the united states army during the vietnam war.following his discharge, made his way to san francisco and settled into the castro, where he met harvey melk and was an integral part of the melk machine. whenever harvey needed bodies, he called dennis, who had, at that time, a cannabis operation, obviously not legal at that time. dennis could turn people out at a moment's notice and did a lot to help harvey. he met and fell in love with his partner jonathan west in 1990. jonathan was diagnosed with aids and was dying and dennis

not as student, but as a soldier in the united states army. to surprise his sister with the greatest gift he can give. his save homecoming. [ applause ] >> praying for him to come and just really exciting that i saw my brother come into my classroom. it made me cry. >> private gilbert spent the last year stationed in south korea turning 20 in soil and spenting the holidays aways from home. >> does she even recognizes me? i'm a lot different than what i used to be. you know, and she looked a lot different than what she used to be much she to be this little girl that i used to care about all the time. now she's grown up and made me so proud. >> proud because kimber system following in her big brother's footsteps. >> jrotc. she's in this class learning about military life. it makes me the proudest -- prow defendant brother to be. >> when we were little we always played games and stuff. call of duty and then we was thinking about fighting on the front lines together because me and him are close. really close. >> serving our country is something th

adviser on defense and security issues for the conservative party and he is a veteran of the united states army, having been stationed in italy and southern europe task force command. luke. [applause] >> welcome everyone here to the heritage foundation this afternoon to discuss a very important and timely matter about israeli-palestine crisis and the recent announcement about the movement of the embassy from tell aviv to jerusalem. the timing couldn't have worked out better. it's my pleasure to introduce ron desantis, a native floridian who has served in congress since 2013. he served as a j.a.g. officer deploying to iraq in 2007 during the troop surge, adviser to the u.s. navy seal commander in support of the seal mission in iraq and served as a j.a.g. officer at guantanamo bay. and as a former military policeman, i know how important the j.a.g. officer is. he is a lieutenant commander in the reserve component of the u.s. navy. in congress, he has been a leader on issues pertaining to national security and been an outspoken advocate for the state of israel. as the chairman of the national secu

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feel so honored that i was able to serve with you. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states armyalk on through the rain ♪ though your dreams be tossed and blown ♪ ♪ walk on ♪ walk on with hope in your heart ♪ ♪ and you'll never walk alone ♪ you'll never walk alone [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic leader of the united states house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. [ applause ] >> mr. president, mr. vice president and mrs. pence, to our distinguished speaker, majority leader mcconnell, chuck schumer, it's an honor to be here with so many friends of senator dole and so many colleagues. i first want to pay tribute to the sponsors of the resolution, congresswoman lynn jenkins and congressman whip steny hoyer, and senator roberts and senator leahy. thank you. thank you for your leadership and getting this done so expeditiously. it is fitting -- that was an applause line for our sponsors. [ applause ] >> it is fitting that we met here in the rotunda of the capitol where american heroes who fought and forged extraordinary project for our nation are memor

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the most important piece is i just listened to the united states army leadership talking about this,and that's an epidemic that we need to stop. i had probably 600 pills of morphine in my drawer at home. and it's on us, the responsibility, to once we're done, you know, when we get a certain amount of pills and if we don't use them, the to bring them back to the pharmacy. you can't -- do you think a wounded warrior's going to do that? no, because i don't know when the pain's going to kick in. i figure you gave me the pill, i'm going to pop a pill whenever the pain comes in. i was lucky, i'm actually allergic to morphine. and oxi. it makes me itch and go crazy. so i was off those powerful medications, you know, after a month or two. the first month or two i had no choice. it was, they were reconstructing my leg, and that was it. but i saw a lot of my friends struggle with it, and so that's something that i know the v.a., i know the military is looking at. they're doing everything that they can in their power to make sure that they come up with a great solution. unfortunately, we're sti

this was over a decade ago, which is right on the border with mexico, that's the home of the united states armyntelligence center and a border patrol post. and even the technology then, it's really amazing the capability that we have to monitor our borders for both people and illegal substances. so, there is a lot that we can do with this money efficiently and effectively. again, not just about people who are costing who shouldn't be, but maybe even more importantly, all the illegal narcotics that are killing our young children. >> congressman, before i let you go, just last month, as you know, steve bannon headlined a fund-raiser for you. do you regret that decision since a lot has happened over the past month. >> no, i'm not -- i haven't been in the middle of this, you know, battle that has been going on. i mean, obviously, mr. bannon has, you know, certainly paid dearly over the course of the last few days. i have not spoken to him at all through this particular process, but, you know, he certainly has been suffering a lot of consequences professionally. i'm glad he did put out a statement.

king, but i kept thinking about an army private named emmanuel mensa who enlisted in the united states army before he was a citizen. and he, of course, died on december 28th when he ran into that burning building in the bronx and saved his fellow citizens from the fire. and he perished. i kept thinking about the dream deferred for people like him and the plight of dreamers. there are 900 currently serving u.s. army soldiers who are dreamers. they will be deported. their uniforms will be ripped off, deported if the dream act doesn't pass. of course, as you reference, we have soldiers fighting and dying at this hour to work alongside our partners in african countries and terrorist organizations. so, i think the president has hit the wrong note in terms of national security and american values on this weekend. >> brett, you've written, i mean, every piece you write is a piece of note. you've written -- your last two really getting a lot of attention and pushing this debate forward. and i want to ask you about the one that john mccain retweeted today. i think the title is "proud to be a nation

tonight we celebrate the release of the 12th volume in the cmh's official history series, the united states army and vietnam. in staying the course, dr. eric -- chronicled the u.s. army operations across vietnam from october 1967 to september 1968, including of course, the tet offensive. on the morning of 28 january, 19 68, the north vietnamese ministry of defense notified the southern command via an encrypted radio transmission the general offensive was to begin at midnight, between the first and second days of tet, the lunar new year and a national holiday. attacks across the country began the next day and continued for three weeks or more, engulfing south vietnam in satisfied in that left thousands dead on both sides and hundreds of thousands of vietnamese or rendered homeless and destitute. measure, the tet offensive was one of the most significant events of the 20th century and the publication of this book at the 50th anniversary of tet serves two purposes -- first, it adds to our continuing national conversation about vietnam and it helps us to remember the service and sacrifice under -- o

united states have. it's clear to everybody the united states has no intention of saying sending the army into battle. t's also clear that woodrow wilson didn't want to do this by the power of economics. he didn't want to tie the resources of the united states economy into figuring it out. and he had more questions about how to do it. dances this came to his presbyterian background. forcing people to convert to his ideas was the wrong way to do it. they had to see the wisdom for what they were. thus the appeals could a league of nations to something like this? could you create an organization to somehow monitor this federated austria and found this interesting another idea that they came up with. i don't know how to interpret it, another suggestion how you might order central europe. this is a quite the claims of the yugoslavs which means they will in montenegro are in the yellow state so not really sure what they thought they were going to a published but it shows the many ways they were thinking. it may just be possible to have states that would be homogenous. states that could feed themselves. it is

slavery has been deeply disrupted wherever the united states army army goes but remer even as late as this, 3 million of the enslaved people in the south have never come with the intent of the union army. that the south is a size of the continental europe and the united states without all all e paraphernalia that we have today cannot penetrate a lot of those places. it's not clear what the future of slavery might be. after sherman falls, things look a lot better but pennsylvania still hangs in the balance. lincoln says if i lose pennsylvania i might lose everything. the two largest states, new york and pennsylvania, new york is going to go to the democrats, but pennsylvania could go to the republicans. i don't what to ruin the story,, tell you how it turns out, but i would say this. lincoln persuades almost nobody from the democrats to vote for it in 1864. nearly 48% of white northern meck would not vote for a dream lincoln in 1864. isn't that amazing? the greatest national crisis with our greatest president for the greatest purpose, that democrats will vote for george mclellan and th