to become one of vietnam plus pressure vietnam -- one of vietnam's first snipers. i had an illness and i had to spend almost two years here. saw money -- i saw so many of my brothers lose their lives over there. i'm saddened to think that we were told when we came home not even to wear our uniform. people knew you were military because of your haircut, but we wasn't even allowed to wear our uniforms when we got home. i got threatening letters from my friends at uc berkeley. i'm looking at all these people not coming home with these little problems and sadness to see how a person's body is being blown to bits. it is just sickening that men cannot hold themselves to get along with one another. i'm so sad that no matter what, we seem like we can control this world by killing people. host: charles, we will have to leave it there. more pictures from the vietnam veterans memorial. according to the national park service, the walls from the memorial are made up like granite that came from india -- are made of black granite they came from india. the east and western portion

and suddenly, vietnam got hot and his team was told to train for vietnam. c-span: where was he from originally? >> guest: bergenfield, new jersey. c-span: where was alyce from? >> guest: she was--a neighboring town of dumont. they met on a--a--a blind date and they actually switched partners by the end of the evening, having been attracted to one another. jim--jim was raised in quite a bit of poverty and kind of a gray existence that he had. his--his parents were older than other parents of--of his--of the youth. his father was a bus driver. his mother was a homemaker, quite dominated by the father. his father was not a very loving man and didn't give jim a lot of whol--a lot of aspirations for bettering himself and--but jim got that from his mother and from various teachers that he had in high school. c-span: how much education did jim thompson and his wife alyce have? >> guest: just high school. they both graduated from high school. jim was two years ahead of alyce. c-span: again, you say the longest-serving pow in american military history? >> guest: rig

i lost a lot of friends in vietnam. it was an experience that was not the most pleasant experience for the united states armed forces. and we came out of that war with a great deal of a large number of problems that we had to deal with. we dealt with those problems, but all of us are carrying around some vietnam memories, and i had suppressed a lot of that and joe helped me bring it all out. c-span: when you went in 1962, first time, how many american soldiers were there? >> guest: i arrived in vietnam on christmas morning 1962 and i think there may have been about 12,000 advisers, give or take a couple of thousand. it was really the second wave of advisers going in. we were replacing the first batch, and were all bright eyed and bushy tailed captains and majors and lieutenant colonels. and we were there to save the world from communism, and if this is where it popped up, by gosh, here's where we're going to do it, and we were going to help the freedom loving people of south vietnam from being overwhelmed by this red ti

soldiers in vietnam.find out what perspective and understanding. >> again, with world war two mythologies so dominant i canno say that i found anything like that. >> i heard what you were saying. this is something that had been written about. and here is another, actually. he said things that led a recognized war atrocities when he read about the laws of war but did not know at the time that their work. he just assumed that they were excepted parts of the war and did not report on them as such. and there were a group of scholars, many of them here at columbia who catalog to over 3,000 instances of violations o the laws of war that were published in mainstream u.s. publications prior. newspapers and magazines. it was all there, but there was never any context. the journalists said not know i there were looking for. the japanese have been prosecuted after the war. they just did not put the two together. >> and a factor, the japanese were portrayed. the many books written about that. that is one of the reaso

that trade is worth $7.6 billion to vietnam. once the tpp takes effect, the value could triple to $22 billion. but there is a problem. textile products in vietnam mostly import thread, fabrics and other raw materials from china. workers use them to make clothes and shoes. the finished products are exported under the "made in vietnam" label. the u.s. insists, however, on adopting the requirement of textile products to use yarn produced in tpp member countries in order for tariffs to be removed. china is not part of the tpp talks, so if that becomes a tpp rule, textile products made in vietnam using chinese materials will remain subject to tariffs. vietnam hopes to boost textile exports could be dashed. alarmed, vietnam's government is trying to expand domestic production of yarn. it plans to make textile plants switch from foreign products. >> translator: if domestically made yarn isn't used, vietnam's textile sector won't benefit from the tee tpp. we need to expand our opportuniti opportunities. >> reporter: not all of the plant

we need to expand our opportunity to seize it. >> reporter: not all of vietnam ee vietnam's plants can adapt to the switch over. it might leave the government to reconsider its participation in the tpp talks. to prevent such a move the u.s. has taken he also pressed for support. the u.s. is keen to prevent china from benefitting from the tpp without joining it but its plans are shaking the businesses. >>> japanese people by p clothing from all over japan. the lead ersz of the world help to improve safety there. now the manager of the plant in tokyo is fighting to get a foothold in his own country. >> reporter: shoppers give some stowls a good look. they are made in a soft fabric and come in over 200 sales. since they appeared over two years ago sales have been good. shoppers bought 250 in one week. >> translator: it feels like the unusual. i love it. >> translator: its texture is great. it's very soft. >> reporter: they're made by this factory in tokyo. it's been producing dyed fabrics for more than a hundred years. he helps run the business. he started out as an artist but later the o

vietnamese forces affectively market and the decade long vietnam war the war in vietnam was more than just a quagmire it was one of the deadliest mistakes ever initiated by the us one that continues to haunt and affect millions of people so let's rewind just a little bit and draw some parallels so we can better understand why history repeats itself over and over again similar to the war on terror now in one thousand fifty four the climate of the cold war gave fodder to the world powers to embark on their new home goals this divided the world between communism and not but the separation was especially evident in vietnam a country that was split into a communist north of the self originally planned as a temporary solution for the withdrawal of french troops from the country the international community promised to really you know five vietnam through elections scheduled for nineteen fifty six the us however the country had become all communist only allowed elections in south vietnam to occur the motivation for this interfere in the democracy was the u.s. government's fear of a domino eff

vietnamese forces affectively marking and a decade long vietnam war the war in vietnam was more than just a quagmire it was one of the deadliest mistakes ever initiated by the us one that continues to haunt and affect millions of people so let's rewind just a little bit and draw some parallels so we can better understand why history repeats itself over and over again similar to the war on terror now in one thousand fifty four the climate of the cold war gave fodder to the world powers to embark on their new home goals this divided the world between communism and not the separation was especially evident in vietnam a country that was split to the communist north and the self originally planned as a temporary solution for the withdrawal of french troops from the country the international community promised to reuse five vietnam through elections scheduled for nine hundred fifty six the us however fearing the country would become all communist only allowed elections in south vietnam to occur the motivation for this interference of democracy was the us government's fear of a domino effec

did not go to vietnam. and i had to do was to arrive as a second lieutenant in the unit were everyone else and then to the vietnam war and then i had to establish my responsibility, just as you will do, and the military were people have two to three towards a new shop as a lieutenant charged. is not an easy thing to do. someone here use the term mission earlier today. i think it was you. and the mission is the key to this. the mission is the key to establishing your authority. make yourself could it your mission. there is something we can do for the wounded coming back is to help give the mission. i will tell you one quick story about being a faculty member at the national war college. we had a commemoration of the battle of the marriott is. very quickly, as i recall it, the american fleet was on the western side of want and the mariana islands and the japanese fleet in order to attack the approach from the last series of the japanese plan was to bomb the american fleet, go on to the other islands, land, ri

we are talking about the stereotype of the vietnam vets. am not sure that i have this stereotype in my head. because those guys have all kill themselves. the fact is that many have been lost to suicide and many were killed in combat in the war. not just a few, but twice as many. when i first heard that, you got me, i got it. i am not sure which common it is, if you want to pick it up, mr. mcintyre. but your friend who suggested the change from ptsd to posttraumatic stress syndrome, do you have any sense that monica would have a better shot at the entitlement to the purple heart then ptsd does now? >> it would probably have less. i don't know how we will deal with the question of how displaced it is very hard to tell when the problem starts and it's very hard to know what the problem is. it's very hard to address a treatment. so that makes it very hard to assign and award the sacrifice that we have suffered. the thing that i'm operating in is that folks have been wounded come up wrangham home. you people home up to the moment they arrive. wh

that was the height of the vietnam war. i'm talking about the problem of militarism and perpetual war. king called the united states the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today. he said, a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. we are gathered here today to discuss the unmentionable. the elephant in the room. msnbc host scan yell at fox news host and vice versa, but when the obama administration expanded the hopeless war in afghanistan, the shouting heads on both channels went virtually silent. as his drone more expanded, there was little shouting on either of those channels or cnn or cbs or abc or so-called public broadcasting, npr and pbs. we can have raging debates in the mainstream media on all sorts of issues like gun control, minimum wage, gay marriage. when the elite of both major parties agree on a military intervention as they so often do, then anyone in t mainstream media who goes out on the limb to qu

walter cronkite went to vietnam and said, this war is a stalemate. he was the most trusted man in news. the antiwar movement led to questioning of the entire society, culture, music, free love, drugs and distribution of power. wars in iraq and afghanistan have been monumental failures by any objective standard. it took years to get a consensus against the iraq war. we have expanded coverage, we have diversified coverage, but so has the other side. with the proliferation of cable ft got more channels and so did the right. they have become corporate. news has become opinion. analysis analysis has become a cover for opinion. there are big rewards for pundits who are paid by the cable channels. ,ard reporting, journalism suffers because it is not as somatic as taking extreme positions. covering the war has a harder time creating is sosus because society polarized. there is such a diversity of opinions on public issues, there is no truth. the political polarization prevents a national consensus on issues of war and peace. we don't have a draft, which made

we had one of the most heavily deck crated vietnam -- decorated vietnam veterans i know. if a flier can tell me this, what 49vs means on a rack. he flew as a covert fighter in vietnam and a very dangerous and formidable man. and a man with the biggest heart i've ever known. he became the chief of staff of the national guard somehow, because he had a mouth on him that he wasn't afraid to open. and an administration that was really rough. and he went flying one day. well, first of all, he settled me down over the p.o. w./m.i.a. issue which i was about to go crazy on and join a radical group in the early '70s. but the second thing is he went by me one day in the hallway and said, johnny, i love you, you know. and i was, like, what? what did -- this is the biggest, toughest, strongest soldier i ever met. and he just went by me and said i love you. so the story i get to tell you about that goes along with the bow tie. some of you, those of you that i've met you, the first thing i like to tell people is i love you. and do you -- i won't ask if you think i'm kidding. you know i'

in march they returned volunteers for vietnam. so i was the first class not to go to vietnam. and i left the service 30 years later, after 30 years and 29 days, two months in two weeks before 9/11. so i fell right in the hole, in the middle. it's not that we didn't do anything for 30 years. we worked 20 hours a day, too. we froze to death and we had casualties. i would prefer not to talk about this what i had a friend killed by a tree limb. had a kid killed by a tree limb. i lost troops run over. we had guys that started in waist deep snow and died of carbon monoxide poisoning. it wasn't as if there was no fighting for 30 years, it's just i wasn't sent. i wasn't sent. now, what, what then did i discover out of that experience and the extremes of my sons who did go, and my nephews who did go, and the people that it indeed did go? and what i got from interviews with those people played back against my career was this idea that everybody goes who is wounded. and i actually had a person come to me and said let me show you the page, let me show you the page and the paragraph where

a judgment about the searcher and you're on the wrong side of it chuck hagel is reference to vietnam was not uncalled for years into the vietnam war even as most americans saw the involvement there is a mistake thousands of u.s. troops continue to die because washington didn't want to admit it someone has to die or so that president nixon won't be and these are his words the first president to lose a war supporters of president bush say history will treat him more kindly regarding iraq but the history that is being lived by iraqis today is one that has neither peace nor security in a country ripped apart by terror six tarion violence and fears of a looming civil war in washington i'm going to shut down. and now for some other stories from around the world in central myanmar at least ten have been injured as sectarian violence erupted leading to the destruction of two mosques and hundreds of muslim homes being set ablaze simmering interface hatred exploded in march when buddhists left over forty muslims death and thousands more displaced

when i was younger, i opposed the war in vietnam. what we have to understand is you cannot ask anything more of a human being than when that person hits his or her life on the line to defend this country. and when people serve in combat, they come back as changed people. and if you're going to serve -- you know, i'm not terribly patient with folks who vote for war, give great speeches at the parades, but when we send people off to war, forget about the guys who serve in war when they come home. especially 30 years later. so, what we have to understand is that any time you vote for war, it's not just for the planes and the bullets and the tanks, it is to make sure that you're going to provide for that veteran if he or she is wounded in whatever way for the rest of his or her life. back your obligation. if you want to vote for wars, send people to the military, that's your responsibility. i'll do my best to make sure we don't forget that lesson, and it's something to remember as we celebrate memorial day. >> how often do you get out to

we will also hear from folks of the vietnam era about the remembrances of that time. time from ohio, active military, good morning. caller: good morning. how are you today? host: i am well, thanks. caller: i would say the best thing we can do for our fallen is to honor what they fought for and ensure that we do not make the same mistakes in the future. they fought to protect the people and the constitution of the united states, and they also fought so that we have the rights and freedoms that we enjoy today. that sacrifice should ensure that we do not allow our folks to take those rights away, whether it is labor for whatever subject you want to talk about. let's make sure our representatives guarantee the future of rights rather than trying to eliminate them. mechanicsville, virginia, the retired line for those who served. stewart, good morning. most people can do whatever they want to do, but i will tell you what i want to do. i will gather my grandchildren around me. we will have a picnic. i will explain to them what today is about. too many young people do not kno

i haven't finished it yet so nobody tell me how the vietnam war ends.ease welcome robert caro. ( cheers and applause ). thank you for coming on. nice to meet you. what an honor. now you are the two-time pulitzer-prize winning historian who is about to receive the j. anthony lucas prize for nonfiction at columbia university. congratulations for that. ( cheers and applause ). >> thanks. stephen: i've got to get me one of those. now you have spent the last 40 years working on your... would you call it a biography or a history of l.b.j.? >> it's neither its about a man but mostly about political power. how this political genius uses different kinds of political power like the last book of how a president takes over in a time of assassination and becomes president and uses political power in an instant. >> stephen: the entire series of books is called the years of lipped onjohnson. the fourth volume out in paperback right now is the passage of power. this is him as the v.p.? >> as the v.p. and then all of a sudden there's a gunshot in dallas and he's p. >> s

a vietnam vet reconnected with lost buddies at the cold granite wall. but the spirit of the holiday may have been best captured by 91-year-old merchant marine james van splunder who placed a wreath at the world war ii memorial. >> the veterans gave their lives to save our liberty, our freedom, and justice for all. and god bless america. >> reporter: in marking the holiday, the president reminded everyone that america is still at war in afghanistan. most remaining troop there is won't be home until the end of next year. jeff? >> glor: bob, thank you. this may be the unofficial start of summer but in some places it looks more like winter. in wilmington, new york, they are digging out from a sunday storm that dumped three feet of snow. in san antonio, texas, weekend flooding caused by strong storms is receding. three people were killed there. and the national weather service warns that parts of kansas and nebraska could see severe thunderstorms this evening and possibly tornadoes. one week after the tornado that damaged 12,000 homes in moore, oklahoma, the

vietnam, i kind of changed. i didn't kind of change. i did change. all right. mentally, and i just wanted to get out after coming back and just kind of, like, get away from everything. >> the chapel of the chiems is the final resting place for thousands of bay area veterans. >>> well, a new report focuses on stress that the military children face when their parents are deployed. cbs reporter susan mcginnis explains how loved ones can help before it turns into something worse. >> kelsey's dad brad has been in the military since she was an infant. the navy officer is now on his eighth deployment. >> i haven't really known a dad that's not been in the military so it seems really normal to me. >> kelsey is now 23. she and her two brothers grew up worrying and missing him whenever he went overseas. >> it is kind of hard when no one understands what you're going through. >> a new report from the american academy of pediatrics says children whose parents serve during wartime are at an increased risk for social, emotion

hundreds of vietnam p.o.w.'ether to sell operate their homecoming decades ago inside a dinner. >>> navy seals rescue american woman held in somalia for months. here her story in her own words. nds of dollars in hidden fees on their 401(k)s?! go to e-trade and roll over your old 401(k)s to a new e-trade retirement account. none of them charge annual fees and all of them offer low cost investments. e-trade. less for us. more for you. i'my body doesn't work the way it used to. past mprime? i'm a victim of a slowing metabolism? i don't think so. new great grains protein blend. protein from natural ingredients like seeds and nuts. it helps support a healthy metabolism. new great grains protein blend. jon: on this memorial day, a fox news alert and remarks from the president at arlington national cemetery. >> but always a man who carries with you the memory of friends and fallen heroes from vietnam. we're frightful to you -- grateful to you. i want to thank general dempsey, major general littington, catherine comden w

that was the height of the vietnam war.king about the problem of militarism and perpetual war. king called the united states the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today. he said, a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. we are gathered here today to discuss the unmentionable. the elephant in the room. msnbc host scan yell at fox news host and vice versa, but when the obama administration expanded the hopeless war in afghanistan, the shouting heads on both channels went virtually silent. as his drone more expanded, there was little shouting on either of those channels or cnn or cbs or abc or so-called public broadcasting, npr and pbs. we can have raging debates in the mainstream media on all sorts of issues like gun control, minimum wage, gay marriage. when the elite of both major parties agree on a military intervention as they so often do, then anyone in the mainstream media who goes out on the limb to question

i was the first class at west point not to go to the vietnam war. the year before istook only volunteers. two years ahead of me they took everybody. in 1970 only volunteers. in march they return to volunteers as for vietnam. president nixon had established victimization. as the first class not to go to vietnam. i left the service 30 years later. after 30 years and 29 days, two weeks into months before 9/11. so i fell right in the middle. not that we didn't do anything for 30 years. we work 20 hours a day, for his death amid casualty. i would refer not to talk about those. but we had a kid killed by a tree limb. i had troops are now rare. we had guys this dirty cheap because of his waist deep snow and five degrees below zero net carbon monoxide poisoning. it was a dangerous world here to listen as if there was no fighting. has just said i wasn't an area so what then did i discover a bad experience and experience of my sons who did go, my nephew stated to the people i interviewed who did go and what i got played back against me carry her with this ide

the annual observance at the vietnam veterans memorial in washington.lelight vigil. marine corps veteran jack mcclain is among the features speakers. today's event remembering the 58,000 soldiers who died in the vietnam war. >> jamie: this is going to be fiery debate. white house is struggling to manage three big controversies. first is the irs targeting of conservative groups. there are so many questions about the night of the benghazi attack. then the allegations of overreach at the justice department. a top republican raising new questions about the president's moral authority and ability to govern. listen. >> i think the constellation of these three scandals takes away from his moral authority to lead the nation. nobody questions his legal authority but he needs to put a stop to this. i don't care if you are a recipe republican or democrat but nobody likes to see the opposite party punishing you for your political beliefs. >> jamie: sally is a political blogger, fox news contributor. you know them both well. great to see you. brad, let me ask sally

he loses his funding for his programs by escalating the vietnam war himself. >> not totally deliberatelyt that's the way it happened >> stephen: he didn't mean to do it to himself. that was just sort of a 50,000 dead people oopsy daisy. >> well, that's a good way of putting it. >> stephen: very few people would say that. thank you. i appreciate it. you're very kind. ( applause ) you're very kind. >> you know what he said? he said this bitch of a war is killing the woman i love, the great society. >> stephen: do you think that the great society, those programs, will last long enough for you to write the next book about them? because they are under fire by the american people. they're failed. the great society has failed this country. >> well, people think they've failed >> stephen: i know they've failed. >> well, let me ask you a question. do you really think a poor kid growing up in a housing project without parents or without a father and a mother who is working all day has the same chance to start in kindergarten as a white kid, a white kid whose parents read to him all his youth? does

hoping to escape the demons of vietnam. >> are you the walker?> i'm the walking man of murphy. >> reporter: in murphy, california, people began to notice. their attention first surprise then inspired him. >> what is going on? >> same old same, walking for the vets. >> reporter: each time someone waves ryan would wave back and donate 25 cents to a u.c.l.a. program called operation men. for soldiers disfigured by war. ric's wife joanne. >> a quarter at a time. and it's something that is helping him mentally and physically and emotionally. >> hey, how are you doing? >> good. this is our man, this is our hero. >> soon residents offered more, than moral support. >> it nice to finally meet you in person. >> nice meeting you, young lady, don't mind the glove. thank you for the donation. >> you're welcome. >> reporter: they opened their wallets as well. >> i just thought it was really cool what he's doing it is simple act of kindness. >> auto shop owner jeff german. >> then you come to find out what is doing for him t just meant a lot for me. >> reporter

of war around the world but the diplomats and dip negotiating and to look at the balkans in vietnam kissinger are holbrooke were in charge and the military provided them to the with many to go to negotiations in paris with the backing of the military. so it came to be a coin strategy not only the savior of the war with a counterinsurgency of what would end the war by america's global strategy to deal with terrorism and the pentagon came up to eat up america policies. so you're arrived in afghanistan with the iraq overhang and military has the enormous amount of influence on the strategy in very early on the president succumbed and therefore strategic review according to which putting troops in afghanistan was a smaller number in january 2009 that a larger number in the fall but essentially he ended up accepting these solution was to export the strategy and at that point* general petraeus had said, but this was the united states mission for afghanistan and something general petraeus put on the ground. so we end up going to afghanistan taking the military of the forefront strategy the

frankel: i'm proud to say that on monday, vietnam veteran's name will be added to the vietnam memorial wall where he will be remembered for his extraordinary sacrifice for his country. a native of indiana and oldest of six children, ray served in the vietnam war as a radio specialist. on june 6, 1969, rocks were fired into raymond's base camp, causing shrapnel to explode into his body from head to toe as he showered. despite suffering severe wounds, raymond at age 21 persevered and went on to have a full life, later married his wife patricia and fathered three children. he later worked as a technician in the v.a. medical center in west palm beach, my hometown, where he gave back to veterans like himself. sadly he felt ill in recent years, due to old war injuries, and passed in october of 2010. with raymond's name joining all other value yent men and women at the vietnam war memorial, we're reminded every day of the bravery of the men and women who serve in our military and who are willing to sacrifice their lives for our own freedom. thank you, mr. speaker and i yield back. the speaker

he is the author of a novel of the vietnam war, a top-10 best seller published in 2010. sebastian's youngbear declared mater or more of the most profound and devastating novels ever to come out of vietnam. received a 2011 washington but stay book award in the fiction category based upon his combat experience as an infantry officer in the vietnam war and as a marine corps second and first lieutenant. his personal decorations include the navy cross, the bronze star, two navy commendation medals for valor, two purple hearts, and ten air medals. after his combat tour in vietnam he served another year of active duty at headquarters marine corps and writes about both his service and his post service and his latest book, what it is like to go war. he was recently interviewed by a build more year in connection with promotion of this book in 2012. please welcome him. [applause] last but not least, at the far end of the panel, colonel john coffin from the national guard of vermont, retired. in his army career he served as a signal platoon leader and immobile consultant across sout

a celebration from pow's released from vietnam. you don't want to miss this. is nothing that compared to finishing something you started when it is this important for the word to see. this is boston strong. >> ♪ >> this weekend, we remember those who lost their lives making our better in this country. the nixon library is marking the 40th anniversary of the largest dinner ever held in the white house. the celebration of pow's released from vietnam. last night 200 gathered for a reunion dinner. told by two of the american heroes. >> their waist may be thicker and hair lines thinner. this can't take away the love they have for their country. the reunion in the nixon mu so many for a special dinner and exhibit of 40 years ago. >> this is col. the flag. >> aviators were each shot down over vietnam and held captive in hanoi. their return home symbol otherwised the end of the war. >> we represented the only tangible victory coming out of vietnam in the eyes of the american people. i was in table d. >> it was entertainer sammy davis' idea to have a celebration. >> wo

lyndon johnson he says i am not going to be the first president to lose a war, and he is trapped in vietnam. >> in many ways, he is left with a great dilemma. people often wash the kennedy -- whitewash the kennedy legacy because he was a martyr, all the good things he did. eisenhower was very tepid, he stayed out of the indochina war when the french wanted him in, he was very cagey about it, he sent advisers, but kennedy was a combat veteran. that did not prevent him from deciding that they needed to go in there. always fighting the last war. the last war was correa. they had to redeem that experience. lyndon johnson was unprepared. he was a great center, new so much about how the country ran, did medicare, medicaid, civil rights, but was extremely un schooled in foreign affairs. he was taught by the kennedy advisers, and then he was at a place where you had a humiliating withdrawal or an opportunity to extricate yourself in an honorable way. >> there were 16,000 americans in vietnam, all in advisory roles, not combat roles at the time john kennedy was assassinated, so a 550,000 american pr

schnapps is distilled from glutinous rice in vietnam. we also put a special kind of vietnamese apple into it. the older the schnapps, the better it tastes. we drink it on holidays like new years or day of the dead. we're really pleased you've visited our family. goodbye. till next time. >> taking the tram instead of the car, or using less plastic bags -- these are all tiny steps that can help protect our environment. a few years back two brits decided that these individual actions simply aren't enough to move from abusing to using the resources we have available. the transition network was born. it offers expertise, training, and concepts for reducing co2 emissions to communities who want to re-think the way they manage their resources. the idea has grown into a global network. we visit the south african town of greyton to find out how this is transforming whole communities. ♪ >> kos, klere, and blyplek. food, clothes, and housing. those are the concerns the country conquerers from greyton, south africa, are singing about. marshall rinqu

lease the pentagon papers during the vietnam war which showed the underlying reasons for the vietnam war that we're now we're being told. he was facing the same kind of sense that meaning was they swell around years in jail. before the british. were going abroad i think that our your. whole series of outrageous actions probably led to charges were dismissed the case were racist. if we had a fair trial in this case you'd have to say that you know you have the case dismissed for outrageous government on the meaning would be free bradley manning. many americans a horrified how the u.s. justice system has been deep based and un ruppel to himself a victim of torture access. i am deeply disappointed and frustrated by the present occasion of the u.s. government with regard to my attempts to visit mr manning with a trophy top attorney say he'd know the newbie innocent but a hero former president of the national lawyers guild moultrie cohen thanks so much for coming on to testify on military hearings on the two to disobey on little folders how does this apply in. case of money he went to his

navy ships opened fire during the first naval bombardment of the vietnam war.es from aircraft carriers were running routine attack missions and the seventh fleet stepped in for support. at first destroyers fired 5 inches guns. then the navy brought in the heavy fire power the battle ship new jersey with the cannons. the assault did little to change the course of the war and battles raging across vietnam for another 8 years. the u.s. navy got into the mix 48 years ago today. and that's "the fox report" nor memorial day, monday, may 27th, 2013. i'm jon scott in for shepard smith. we're back same time tomorrow, hope you had a good memorial day to this point. the factor is up next. [taps] ♪ >> bill: o'reilly factor is on. tonight: what is the biggest problem facing america today? the biggest problem the nation has is us, our mentality. >> bill: also, how has the country changed since the 1950s, is it for better or for worse. >> the 50s were wholesome, especially by today's anything goes standards. >> bill: provocative talking points analysis. plus, expert insight f

the us invasion of south vietnam curiously that for is in the media when we invaded south vietnam john f. kennedy in one thousand and sixty two. you bombing of south vietnam the u.s. air force all through as napalm. authorized chemical warfare to destroy corrupt. started driving. peasants into. what were called strategic kamut basically concentration camps where they were surrounded by barbed wire. protect them from the guerrillas who the government knew very well they were sporting what we call that of someone else did it but it's now fifty years over fifty years i doubt the phrase invasion of was ever pure the press could hardly i think it to tell what terry and state would barely be able to achieve such conformity fact probably wouldn't be able to and this is a critical does it and not talking about the ones who said there was a noble cause and were step back you know which incidentally obama pretty much has but it's become so sophisticated and i don't know if it's just because i'm younger and i've seen it you know just in the last ten years and in the post nine eleven world the med

reporter: for rick ryan, it began with a quest, walking every day, hoping to escape the demons of vietnamhe walking man of murphys. >> reporter: in murphys, california, people began to notice. their attention, first surprise, then inspired him. >> what's going on? >> same old thing. walking for the vets. >> reporter: each time someone waved, ryan would wave back and donate 25 cents to a ucla program called operation men for soldiers disfigured by war. rick's wife, joann. >> a quarter at a time. and it's something that's helping him mentally and physically and emotionally. >> hey, how are you doing, roy? >> good. >> this is our man. this is our hero. >> reporter: soon residents offered more than moral support. >> well, it's nice to finally meet you in person. >> nice meeting you, young lady. don't mind the glow. thank you for the donation. >> you're welcome. >> reporter: they opened their wallets as well. >> i just thought it was cool what he was doing. a simple act of kindness. >> reporter: auto shop owner danny sherman. >> then you find out what he was doing and it just meant a lot for m