vietnam. and it escalates to a point where by late '64 we effectively have a state of war in southern vietnam. we have big war, as i mentioned, in southern vietnam. and then at that point, the position of the americans is what do we do about what's going on? do we just effectively allow the south to fall or do we do more than merely send advisers to preclude a collapse of this pro-american, anticommunist regime in saigon. in response to the escalation and this existence of a state of war in southern vietnam, lyndon johnson decides to deploy combat troops, it begins with 3,000 marines and it keeps going up from there. he deploys these combat troops to southern vietnam and at the same time he initiates a sustained bombing campaign against the north. the idea being that the north needs to be punished for all the troubles in the south as far as johnson and his advisers are concerned, whatever difficulties the americans are facing in the south are all the result of this collusion by hanoi of this i

. >>> 3 million americans serve in vietnam. you see vietnam vet, the license plate. as it turns out, 20% of americans who served were actually in combat. the overwhelming majority of americans who served in vietnam were not in combat. of the 20% in combat, 10% only ever actually experienced combat. only a minority of americans who served in vietnam actually did the stuff that you see in these pictures and you see in movies. those are the guys who sometimes suffer various -- from various ailments, again, because the nature of the war was such that it was really, really hard for a 19-year-old to cope with. for a lot of americans, the war was actually the best time of their lives. right? if you were 19 years old stuck in an air conditioned office in saigon, things could be pretty darn good. that was the reality, as it turns out, most americans who were in vietnam. people always ask, at one point, there's almost 600,000 americans in vietnam, how could the u.s. have lost? again, most of these guys are effectively support personnel. they're not actual ground forces. they'r

american troops in vietnam. the head of the organization, and i don't believe there is any video of this because again, this is not the big time. a guy named paul potter, he's you know, maybe not the greatest public speaker in the world but he's the president of the organization and he gets to give the big speech and he gets up there, and he kind of gives a very carefully rational dispassionate, there's no waving of arms or anything like that, speech, and he tries to wrap his head around what the united states is doing in vietnam. and he is sort of speaking almost in counter-point to johnson's speech that has come up the month before and he is publicly struggling, he had written his speech down but publicly struggling with why this is happening and why is the united states going to start a land and air war in this little country 8,000 miles away in asia? and he kind of comes to this conclusion that he says there's some kind of system in the united states, that's the phrase he uses, there's a system in the united

, the vietnam war. looking at the vietnamese you, the sensory landscape folder and the. eventually led her to write fire, the vietnamese americans of vietnam was, it won't work possible in making you to. she was 31 years old. upon his australian, case where. a family of intellectuals, she was in new zealand and raised in . here i again on her own with her, no credentials to see, no job, no leaves on the yet she do outsider work a very different path for a contact word, she began a great combat reporter, going into the societies of billion and the enemies, telling a story that had united others have. contributions were recognized cries named after, that he or to the asian journalists with the greatest determination and courage in journalism. next slide please. this is kathleen law, the french photographer. my book is not filled with a lot of analysis of gender this weekend. i told the story as a name is big lies. capturing was already accomplished pianist, parachutist when she arrived in saigon. and she

i myself worked in vietnam in the 1990s. i read tons of books about vietnam. by many of the journalists, that david help portions and i didn't know any of this all . so the story you're telling i think is phenomenal and important and makes a huge contribution. another thing that you convey so thoroughly in the book is the incredible trauma and stress that these women suffered from. but whole, the emotional and psychological toll it took on them and another thing i have known is how terrible the men workingthat . how jealous they were, how they tried to undermine them. i'll be tried to get him fired. we bought a lot of the male reporters were awful in the 90s but there are real villains in this book as well as heroines. i don't know how supportive kate foss was but the destruction that the male journalists and one of the other entertaining things book and the book is you talk about their love lives and personal relationships and some of the men that these women were involved with do not come off well. i won't maybe see who because people should read the book an

a beautiful photograph of a vietnam bread -- vietnam veteran. and that's you with your wife penny on the left? >> that's right. we are still competing to see who can get the longest hair. >> i will say when the public for so veterans which was the first time they grab the national spotlight it became clear that this was a combination that had never been seen before. they have the long hair that says -- with the hippies and this is a new model that the country is not seen before. she talks about this new aesthetic so will talk a little bit more of about that per day of another slide here of bestor cram's compatriot and -- come patriotism. this was the rhode island chapter and that's bestor cram with the coordinators. they invited the chapter. and they say add more people and add more veterans but this is just another wonderful thing that shows the changing sense of who they were between when they went to vietnam and when they came home and the third one you can see is the advancement. you can see it again and again and that's arthur johnson with

theirei best efforts and lives n vietnam, less influence they had in south vietnam, both men and material resources, the americans were enforcing corruption and destroying the tissue of vietnamese society. next slide, please. here is kate webb, you can see she wrote in on the story that people -- she gave full attention or muscle intelligence, now she arrived, the australian army. the same rule against women covering on the battlefield as the americans did for australians and forced it. the americans were convinced not to for many reasons, one of which a few women before them convince them to send it. let the women stay in the field as long as they can cause any problem. caif became permanently in the actively opened the way for women of the future to cover the war. kate made her name always, she was a freelancer has frankie and katrina were. in 1968 in january beginning of which was the turn of the work. january 68, president of the united states who was in charge of the troops in vietnam. everyone promised at the end of the tunnel they couldt see an american victory.er the vietnamese, t

>> back to vietnam, there's no more, after vietnam, women were forever on the battlefield. it took other countries a little bit longer but the next time the united states went to war was 1991 gulf war. by then the women that arrived, they were correspondence. they have health insurance and equipment. they didn't think they got the same access as the men they were were correspondence. even australia dropped and so i think it took a while but all countries now allow women on the battlefield but the problem now is that the battlefield itself has become more dangerous for reporters, male and female. it's not possible now in many respects you could take journalist are targeted. look at the story on marie, she was targeted. journalists are targeted and they are kidnapped for ransom and they are killed. it's a different problem entirely. after vietnam those women didn't realize it but they effectively had women in combat but they didn't tell a story for 30 years. they kept it quiet because they were afraid it might be reimposed and it was only 30 years related a collection of pers

their moment insouth vietnam . with both men and material resources they americans were enforcing corruption and destroying the tissue of vietnamese society . stunning work. next slideplease . and here's k-12, the australian . you can see from just her manner she brought in on the story that people, she gave her full attention, hurtful intelligence. now she arrived thinking she could cover the australian army. the australians had the same rules against women covering on the battlefield as the americans did but the s australians actually enforced it . and the americans had to convince not to enforce the vietnamese for many reasons, one of which is a few of them before kate including petry had convinced them to just suspend it. let the women stay in the field as long as they didn't cause any problems. and as it turned out that extension became permanent and these women effectively opened the way for women of the future to cover the war. but case made her name first of all always, she was a freelancer just as frankie

for america's sins in vietnam. just as powerful as american guilt was the idea of american goodness. pride in american compassion and generosity spurred americans to take action. the idea that the united states was the benevolent leader of the free world also converged with religious ideas. the idea that the united states needed to be the good samaritan. finally, refugee advocates argued that americans should not admit refugees because americans are good but because refugees are good for america. one senate resolution from 1975 declared, this period of influx of refugees and exiles can serve to keep us humble, saving us from the sins of arrogance, pride, and self-righteousness. i need to tell you, this support for refugees really was small compared to the opposition to refugees. despite the lofty ideals and passioned support, the majority of americans opposed the resettlement. this sentiment was by no means a new development in american culture. public opinion polls indicate that consistently throughout the 20th ce

when the evacuation was still going on in vietnam. here is some of the chaos that happened just in the two days before gerald ford gave that speech while 7,000 people a day were being flown out of the air base. south vietnam's president thieu resigned from office, handing over the office to the vice president. he gave a two-hour resignation speech attacking the united states government that had been propping him up for years. the completely oblivious said he believed president thieu's resignation would lead to a negotiation with north vietnam that would save saigon, then the capitol of vietnam, save saigon from attack. president forward mentioned none of that. the third president that week, president minh tried to achieve a cease-fire but the air base was bombed by north vietnamese pilots, rocket attacks on the airport followed in which u.s. marines charles mcmahon and darwin judge were killed, becoming the last two americans killed in combat in vietnam, their bodies were left in the hospital in saigon by mistake. president forward di

i myself in the vietnam have read tons of books about vietnam by many of the journalists, the david halverson'snd i actually didn't know any of this at all. so, the story you're telling i think is really phenomenal and important and it makes a hugean contribution. another t thing is the incredibe trauma these women suffered from. the toll, the emotional and psychological toll that it took on them. andd another thing is how terrible the men were to them, how jealous they were to undermine them, how they tried to get them fired. you know, we thought a lot of the male reporters were awful when we were there in the '90s. but there are elements in this book as well as heroines. the ap editor i didn't know how supportive he was, but the destruction many of them, the male journalists seen one of the other extreme things about the book is you talk about their love lives and personal relationships and some of the men these women were involved with do not come off very well. i won't maybe say who because they should read the book. but another thing i want to add is everybody that i know had gotten a hold

haslinda: let's get to vietnam.een mom -- vietnam on the front line for the battle for the global supply chain. even though it remains one of the worlds rare high-growth powerhouses, global brands are struggling. let's discuss this and more with adam sitkoff, executive director of the american chamber of commerce in hanoi. good to have you with us. the irony of it all -- we had companies moving factories from china to vietnam to keep supply chain's resilient and here we are. covid had other ideas and the problem is not going away anytime soon. guest: well, i would say things were going really well until the delta variant showed up. vietnam was a little behind in their vaccination drive, how to get it going and get enough vaccine into the country. and that is really what has caused the problem. right now we have about one out of every five people in the country that has received one shot. but only three out of 100 people , about 3%, have received both shots. that is obviously causing some of the problems you're talki

and he said next to nothing about vietnam. he mentioned the word vietnam. exactly once. >> today, america can regain the sense of pride that existed before vietnam. but it cannot be achieved by re-fighting finished as far as [applause] as i see it, the time has come to look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up the nations wounds and to restore its health. and it's optimistic self confidence. >> so that's what he said. when the evacuation was still going on in vietnam. here is some of the chaos that happened, just in the two days before president ford gave that speech, while 7000 people a day were not being flown out of the vietnamese airbase. the president resigned from office, and on the way out the president of vietnam who gave a two hour speech attacking the united states. henry kissinger said that he believed the resignation of president theiu would lead to a negotiation with north vietnam that would save saigon, from a. president ford mentioned none of that chaos in his speech at two lane. days after the president resigned. the thi

so we ought to let the refugees from vietnam in. throughout the cold war, americans continued to feel a special obligation to people who were fighting against communism. people who were the less fortunate human beings who faced retribution and persecution. this was also another reason why a lot of americans were open to accepting southeast asian refugees. their support in the idea that the united states is an exceptional country, an immigrant country that has special status in history as a refuge for the scorned, hated and hunted. one 1975 public opinion survey found the leading reason why americans supported the admission of southeast asian refugees was the, quote, tradition of the united states as a sanctuary for europeans fleeing oppression of their diplomatic corps. americans who had worked in vietnam felt terrible about potentially abandoning their southeast asian colleagues. other refugee advocates argued that americans must aid and admit southeast asian refugees whose suffering was the direct consequence of u.s. military acti

after a brief break, lieutenant colonel served in the korean and vietnam wars. he was an officer during the vietnam war. naming the new clinic after colonel mosley. i can't think of a better name for my fellow veterans to be walking in to this new clinic in aurora, colorado to see the name of lieutenant colonel john hosely and remember his service, his sacrifice, his leadership and the best of what we can be as a country. thank you to the house veterans affairs key to advance this bill and i urge my colleagues to support this effort to honor lieutenant colonel john mosley. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. bost: i have no more speakers and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. takano: i have no further speakers and prepared to close and before i do, i would let the gentlemanfrom colorado know that i'm honored to represent the university ofcalifornia riverside which is the repository of the tuesday can can gee airmen ar

they branched out more into vietnam, bangladesh and indonesia.hey have been doing this for quite some time. but vietnam is a hub for footwear and i don't see them being able to easily move manufacturing out of vietnam, because footwear making is a very skilled trade, unlike apparel, which can be more easily replicated outside. caroline: poonam goyal, always so quick off the mark when it comes to these earnings. thank you. we now want to look at the future of fashion and how you by your speakers thomas didier. thomas didierwe speak with -- we speak thomas didier with thomas didier -- we speak with thomas did next next ♪ caroline: we were talking about nike and how it is focused on digital. the future of retail has become more digital, and we are looking at one company bringing fashion and tack together, making it easier to visualize what something may look like on you without going to the store. romaine: ibio most everything online and this is a feature cropping up on a lot of websites per you can try on sunglasses, clothes, shoes, all without lea

as we know, china and vietnam, described? as we know, china and vietnam. they _ described?w, china and vietnam, they have introduced - described? as we know, china and - vietnam, they have introduced bands, as you know. china for instance, basically it's about certain terrestrial wildlife, in terms of food. similar restrictions, a similar ban in vietnam, but the issue here is that these countries, in china, or instance, they allowed traditional use of medicines or even ornaments, and experts are telling me that these are loopholes, and even when these countries are trying to implement those bands, the market is so entrenched, it is a huge area, enforcement is really challenging. in the meantime, because of the border restrictions, suppliers are offering discounts. that's a huge challenge. offering discounts. that's a huge challenue. . ,, ., challenge. navin singh khadka, the bbc world service's _ challenge. navin singh khadka, the bbc world service's environment i bbc world service's environment corresponded, thank you forjoining us on newsday. in our latest film for the bb

you mentioned vietnam in the book. you claim that next, and use the initial circumstances that exacerbated attention in vietnam to be elected. oh, absolutely. you know, nixon does a few things to get elected. first of all, he plays on the culture wars. he's sort of place to this when he calls the silent majority, the white backlash against the civil rights movement, the white working class backlash against what was perceived as a privileged college kid, anti war movement. even though that's a bit of a mythology too. and also, you know, he literally sense kissinger, right? one of the great villains of american history that, you know, hillary clinton looks up to right is fascinating. more, a stronger forest johnson over here we'll talk as well. of course, or my race, the mental kissinger, the, the murderer punches thousands. but, you know, kissinger is sent to spike. the piece talks basically that, you know, johnson's kind of working on and that are ongoing because she tells them essentially, you know, tells the south vi

are rethinking their exposure to vietnam.xplain. >>> plus, the end of the era sears is shutting down its last store in its home state. it is friday, september 17th, 2021 and you are watching "worldwide exchange" here on cnbc >>> good morning happy friday welcome to the show. i'm dominic chu in for brian sullivan let's get to the markets stock markets are indicating a higher open. the s&p up by one point. a muted move going out to the week treasury yield the 10-year note is ticking slightly higher. 1.34%. the 2-year note is .22% on that trade. you see the curve higher in terms of interest rates. >>> in energy prices, we are watching, of course, what is happening with crude oil prices have been ticking higher. today, we are seeing 2/3 of 1% decline in benchmark crude ice brent crude is $75.32. .50% down. and natural gas is cooling off down 1%. on the gold trade, the buy and dip mentality. $1,766 is the last trade for gold you can see that near term down trend over the last couple weeks for gold prices. >>> cryptocurrency we are

not many meals to go here before he has to find his own in the wild se, vietnam's wildlife release, his penguin in protected areas, which are controlled by forest ranger team. these need to be on constant alert to ensure the animals don't well pray to their most dangerous animal cultures. but there is another threat rangers will need to look out for you know, evidence has been found that 19 originated from pendulum, but some have been known to carry corona viruses related to the one behind the disease. today the rangers are being trained to take samples from animal encounter in the wild to 8 ongoing research efforts on the potential spill over of disease. the specimen for today's training is a dead stork. oh, that's where the law when can land ok. i'm here with another one that you know if you didn't on. yeah, i came in for going down the descent. they do have a problem with back at the center, the big day. final health checks have been done. microchips attached and panel in 1588 and 6. others are ready to be released. tell, cocking into another that we've done with jam. good day. i tim

he replaced the vietnam war with more winnable wars. he replaced the global disruptions of the 1960s with law and order. he created two americas, not divided, but still two americas. there were the americans and the parts of america that found hope and idealism in what he was doing and those who continued to feel left behind. those two americas would work together in his time. but they would be the two americas that we would come to see in later years. reagan's politics were politics of hope for many. they left others in despair. they were politics of change at home and abroad and politics of idealism, but not for everyone. what reagan teaches us most of all is that in a large, complex society of the united states, there are different experiences people have from the same policies. we must be attentive to those different experiences, to reagan's credit, he pursued change. to reagan's discredit he didn't understand how it affected groups in different ways. that's a tall order. change in a complex society will always affect people in diff

so, they're having a hard time getting stuff out of vietnam but also into the united states. the roof there are two pieces to this problem. >> exactly so, the suppliers, they're really in a living hell. you can't get your product you can't have it made you can't get it out, and you're paying through the nose. and you've got the delays. >> tell me about edison wall >> edison is a vessel that was carrying almost 500 containers of nike product. and it left vietnam back in late august, and it arrived in -- on august 27th in the port of l.a and it stayed there docked for 12 whole days. it was anchored out in the middle of the ocean. then finally it got into the port of los angeles in early september, and it took eight days for them to start, you know, unloading and doing their things and it's been such a delay, and everything is so congested there, the vessel finally left late last night. >> oh, my gosh >> yeah. and these are vessels that are containing the trade we need, right? this is how companies make money. >> and the final piece of it is they finally get through that whole p

but absolutely, there's, i mean, the vietnam war were still fighting the vietnam war. an american politics today, largely. ok. i mean, obviously some people they make some progressive on time elements of welfare to a fantasy. yes. i mean, who is this vocal minority in d. c. a policy makers. that if you advance the years after $911.00 made policies that we now see the results of in, in libya and in syria canister in iraq. you know, i think it's, there's 2 strands stewart to bipartisan strands. there's the, like the neo imperial neoconservatives, who believed that the is for the executive branch. these are the rumsfeld's, the cheney, the wolf who answers these are idealogues more so than bush himself, who believe that the executive branch should be able to basically wage war. and a certain american hedge are many unilateral. and that after vietnam, congress got too powerful, the american people got too hesitant about using force. this is all vietnam syndrome. and that's the problem. if you unshackled the presidency and do what needs to be done, the re all policy crowd, t

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>> well, this is a picture of the war in vietnam. during the war in vietnam, we were confronted with pictures like this on our television sets every night. there were pictures of people that had been bombed, pictures of elections that have been burned down. >> but was napalm by the way? could you tell it was? >> napalm is a gasoline that has had things added to it to make it like a jelly. so, when the bomb goes up and this jelly gasoline sprays out it sticks to your skin and it burns you out. a burns of homes, it burns at people, burns up mothers in the babies to. and we saw it every night. we saw it in black and white, but this happened and we watched it over and over again. we did not know what to do about it. there was a large march in washington. i went on a march to washington. and on the way back, we discussed what we could do to continue the protest in the war. and a man on the bus said he heard the people were going to wear black armbands to protest the war. the black armband is a old traditional symbol of mourning. people fo

>> well, this is a picture from the war in vietnam.ing the war in vietnam, we were confronted with pictures like this on our television sets every night. and there were pictures of people that had been napalmed, pictures of villages that had been burned down. >> what was napalm, by the way? can you tell what that was? >> napalm is gasoline that has had things added to it to make it like a jelly. so when the bomb blows up and this jellied gasoline sprays out, it sticks to your skin and it burns you up. it sticks to everything. it burns up your homes. it burns up the people. it burns up the mothers and the babies too. and we saw it every night. we saw it in black and white. but this -- this happened, and we watched it over and over again, and we didn't know what to do about it. there was a large march in washington. i went on a march to washington. and on the way back, we discussed what we could do to continue to protest the war. a man on the bus said he had heard that people were going to wear black armbands to protest the war. the blac

>> well, this is a picture from the war in vietnam.the war in vietnam, we were confronted with pictures like this on our television sets every night. there were pictures of people that had been napalmed. >> what was that? >> napalm is a gasoline that has things added to it that makes it like a jelly. when the bomb blows up and this jellied gasoline sticks to your skin and burns up everything, the people, the mothers and the babies. we saw it every night in black and white. this happened and we watched it over and over again, and we didn't know what to do about it. there was a large march in washington. i went on the march to washington. on the way back we discussed what we could do to continue to protest the war. the man on the bus said he had heard that people were going to wear black arm bands to protest the war. the black arm band is an old traditional symbol of mourning, and people for hundreds of years have worn black arm bands when members of their families have died and they want to indicate to their society that they're in a pe

whether it's vietnam or iraq or afghanistan.t bush, president obama, president trump all say they would not engage in nationbuilding and yet they did, over 20 years. why? >> that's a a really good quen and i think one that our leaders haven't answered. there there was one interview in the afghanistan papers with a former navy seal made jeffrey eggers who worked at the white house on the nationals could he staff under bush and obama and he served in afghanistan, too, and he raised that same question. said why do we think we can transform societies like this? why do we take on these enormous tasks as a country? he said it really gets, is a question of human psychology. why do we think we can do this, accomplish these things? why don't we take a a step bak and question some of these basic assumptions? what were we thinking trying to transform not just create a new afghan government, new afghan institutions, but in some ways transform afghan society. yet this was a country that americans knew very little about going in and we never

he increase the number of devices to vietnam. he didn't sign the civil rights act. he, he was the instigator of match ho brinkman ship with chris jeff over the cuban missile crisis, which you can say he and cruise ship came save the world because that the, his plan, the pentagon, the generals, were pushing kennedy to go into cuba to invade, to drop a nuke on cuba. there was a lot of pressure on kennedy for years. for 3 years, kennedy made 11 or 12 decisions not to send combat troops. he did send advisers because he was done because of the eisenhower administration in bomb and in the vietnam war. and with the french, remember, there's a whole history here. kennedy was in vietnam in 1954 as a young senator, and saw that he was an anti colonialist. and he saw the french army struggling, and he thought it was ridiculous, or he was a smart young man. he went to algeria, didn't go to alger minutes speech about algeria condemning the french army in their war. and algeria, colonialism did not work for him. remember, he was irish, he was an english. and he had an, in an atti

what we hear is northern vietnam is okay.ut the ports as you said and we have heard that there are record numbers of container ships at the port of l.a. right now record number of ships at anchor and record number of ships waiting to go to be at anchor so you take that and even though nike is good at what they do there's only so much to do given the size of nike that being said as a previous guest said we think it's transient. demand is strong and we believe they'll shift more business to the direct to consumer going forward which will take pressure off supply chain. >> what would be better for the stock in your view what would you like them to do hike prices and protect the margin or use the huge scale and balance sheet to undercut rivals when everyone's under pressure and take some market share >> the ability to move goods and direct to consumer can do that i think that their execution as they put it the demand creation and everything else positions them better than most for taking share while sustaining the sanctity of the

this was a bad idea, withdrawn from vietnam. me. how much clear can you be? the johnson did not agree with kennedy's policy. and he used to use the us as a nation rather quickly to take control. and within 2 days issue the issued national security action memorandum, $273.00, which reversed which basically set up a new militancy in the american position. india. now, allowing us forward to conduct air patrols and naval patrols along the north vietnamese coast. that ended in the tonkin bay debacle in august of $64.00 in the fall slag. it's now increasingly called loss ration. yeah. and that was a basis for the war. but why did law kennedy not do anything? why did he not attorney general? he's gone off on day one. i mean, the, the moment you have to understand robert kennedy was in conflict with judge hoover, the f b i. x is one of his main main agencies know robert kennedy was, had no power after his brother was killed because johnson took over and jam over was right. it was breathing down robert kennedy's throne. and by the way, the f. b. r. hoover's organizati

as we know, china and vietnam, they have introduced bans, as you know.e, in terms of food. similar restrictions, a similar ban in vietnam. but the issue here is that these countries... in china, for instance, they allow traditional use of medicines or even ornaments, and experts are telling me that these are loopholes, and even when these countries are trying to implement those bans, the market is so entrenched, it is a huge area, enforcement is really challenging. in the meantime, because of the border restrictions, illegal suppliers are offering discounts. that's a huge challenge. that was the bbc world service and environment correspondent talking about the challenge being seen as a result of the resurgence of wildlife trafficking in southeast asia. stay with bbc news. hello there. after what was a mostly dry and clear end to wednesday for most of us, the weather steps up a gear through thursday and into the weekend. with spells of rain, some strong winds, some drier, brighter interludes in between, but the culprit — no prizes for guessing — is low pr

we were left behind in vietnam. we were left behind, a woman can get pregnant, have a child and have more benefits than a disabled veteran. we cannot even get dental. ♪ >> this year marks the 20th anniversary of the timber 11th, tax -- attacks -- of the september 11 attacks. join us september 11 on c-span. watch on line c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. >> c-spanshop.org is c-span's online store. there is a collection of c-span products, browse to see what is new. your purchase will support our nonprofit operations. you can also order the contact directory for the biden administration. go to c-spanshop.org. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by this television companies and more. including a spark like. >> it is our home too, we are all facing our greatest challenge, that is why spark light is working around the clock to keep you connected. spark like supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers. giving you a front row seat to democracy. host

i am a vietnam veteran. i want to thank this man for his organization, but i'm going to tell you -- once you are back from these crop holes, i don't know why you would be committing suicide. you are back to the world. you are safe now. i don't understand why you would be committing suicide now, or thoughts of it. you are safe now, ok? second of all, i am pissed the way we left afghanistan, with all of weapons. how dare we -- how dare he leave all of those weapons. we lost that war. we haven't won a war since world war ii, and i am pissed about it. should have pulled us out in the first eight years. all of the weapons that are left for our enemies, thank you for your organization, and i am pissed. host: go ahead and respond, leroy. guest: first of all, thank you for your service. a lot of people don't talk about it. when they talk about 22 a day, it is actually higher depending on who you ask, but those suicides, for the longest time the highest percentage has always been the vietnam veterans. just like this

bill, in 1966 during the vietnam war another g.i. bill passed, in the vietnam war era, in the end of the korean war, the first time the g.i. bill even during the time insulate 50s, by 1944 bill, offering similar benefits to veterans of later wars, the g.i. bill, the benefits of 1934 g.i. bill underlay to build is impossible for most veteran support, for financial resources to do so and not pay for their attendance. and after vietnam when they transition to an all volunteer force another g.i. bill was passed in 1976 designed for the force and the focus of the bill shifted from helping veterans to reintegrate to being a recruitment to get people to join the military knowing they would qualify for educational benefits and for the first time benefits were not free and pay into the system to qualify when they got out. the loan aspect of the g.i. bill were attached to lifetime benefits for all. that established the program. several more g.i. bills passed since then. one of the most important was the 9/11 g.i. bill, one of the most generous