a vietnam army veteran and founding member of this memorial. proud and few members of the last patrol vietnam veterans. worked tirelessly dropping and fundraising make the memorial a reality to have new jersey veterans remember their own community. a helmsman on the uss america in 1968 petticoat officer with the navy and key note speaker on the 239th birthday of the u.s. navy has written several books about experience including dogtags and wedding fans. john phone from a founding member and eighth term president of the vietnam veterans of america, he spent instrumental passing legislation to reinstate g.i. bill funding and raising awareness for vietnam veterans. 1965, he enlisted in the air force and provides strategic air command with intelligence on north vietnam service to air missile sites. finally, jim mcluhan earned medal of honor donald trump's first honorary his courageous fighting where he saved 11 people. 1969 -- 70 serving as a combat medic some of the bloodiest battles of the vietnam war. when he returned home, he became a respected

coming back to vietnam, it was very divided and, too. i was an antiwar protester going to college in the early 70's. i forgot to register for selective service which meant i was eligible for the draft. my number was 26. i had some anxiety and was debating about going to canada. i was not going to go into the military because i felt morally horrified by what we were doing in vietnam. i also held that the people fighting that war were complicit. now, as in the older person, i realize they were not complicit. they were buying the lies of the u.s. government. there were veterans that came out of that war with such damage from agent orange and the military refused to acknowledge it for decades. that is all i want to say. i want to apologize to the veterans i held complicit. i believe they were awful brave. thank you for allowing me to express my thoughts. host: as we told you, yesterday march the 100th anniversary of the tomb of the unknown soldier. the national cemetery tweeting out this picture. "100 years ago today, -- carried the tomb of

of people we lost in vietnam.if you asked me why i volunteered, because i volunteered out of high school in 1964. i grew up with a family where my father was in the marine corps in world war ii and served many places in the south pacific including iwo jima. his older brother was vice commander of the american legion during peacetime in the 1970's. i come from a family of patriotic veterans who inspired me to go into the military right after can be -- completing high school. i grew up in an era where john kennedy made his speech, "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." and he was assassinated in my senior year of high school which inspired me to join the conflict in vietnam. host: finish her thoughts. caller: i never really intended for my service to be a career, but i tell you what, the camaraderie in the military is far surpassed and unrecognized by people who never served. when people come to me and thanked me for my service, i always remind them that they would thank th

of people we lost in vietnam. also if you asked me why i volunteered, because i volunteered out of high school in 1964. i grew up with a family where my father was in the marine corps in world war ii and served many places in the south pacific including iwo jima. his older brother was vice commander of the american legion during peacetime in the 1970's. i come from a family of patriotic veterans who inspired me to go into the military right after can be -- completing high school. i grew up in an era where john kennedy made his speech, "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." and he was assassinated in my senior year of high school which inspired me to join the conflict in vietnam. host: finish her thoughts. caller: i never really intended for my service to be a career, but i tell you what, the camaraderie in the military is far surpassed and unrecognized by people who never served. when people come to me and thanked me for my service, i always remind them that they would th

garrison, what's vietnam ? what's vietnam ?ut vietnam. chances are that somebody in your own lives was affected by this incredible war. that's right mr. garrison, the vietnam war was sticky and icky. mr. garrison, were you in vietnam ? ( male ) come on ned, let's go ! jump out of the chopper ! ( male ) who's next to take a shower ? me, i am ! you just took one last time, silly. oh, where can i hide this bigpipe? no, i wasn't in vietnam. but sometimes i like to pretend i was. anyway children, i'm going to assign you all a paper. i want you all to find somebody in your own life who was in vietnam and interview them about it. what if we don't know anybody who was in vietnam ? then you get an f, fail the third grade and have to get a job cleaning septic tanks to support your drug habit. oh. dude, my uncle jimbo was in vietnam. yeah, him and ned do that stupid tv show. and now time for... one of our loyal viewers from south park sent us some 8 millimeter film of what he claims to be the mexican staring frog of southern sri lanka. no

there is no unknown soldier beyond the vietnam war. and vietnam war is actually an empty vessel.that -- >> that's correct. and it's likely to remain the case. again, you hope it's none that have fallen in service of our country. but it's some small solace that dna technology and identifying technology has reached a point where we can identify those who give that last full measure of devotion so their families have some closure, so they can be repatriated or interred in name and that their families have a place to pay tribute in a very personal way. the tomb of the unknown is a very beautiful memorial and an important way that anyone who lost someone could go pay tribute through the channel of the unknown. but i think it's reasonable to say that being able to identify people so that they can have a more personal tribute is better. so it's really, you know, we're fortunate. and i think something to be said for the ability of, you know, more rapid medical care. you know, they can do incredible things with medicine in the 21st century that just were not available in those earlier con

[laughter] it was my introduction to the vietnam war. and that night ari took the first shift for three hours and then it was my turn. and the guy gave us an m2 grease gun 45 caliber sub machine gun. and my turn, i'm out there, i'm scared to death. i'm in this bunker with a slip that looks out right at the road. well, during my shift, the enemy attacked the south vietnamese compound commanders compound across the little road. they hit it with satchel charges blowing up, and i'm figuring we're next. and finally, after the longest night of my life, there's a little light in the east. you know, the sun is going to come up in a minute and i've made it and i look, and down that road comes a vietnamese guy on a bicycle with a big package on the front. on his handle bars, and i have checked around in that machine gun and i have got it right on hmm and i'm about to blow his gizzard out when the captain hits me on the shoulder and says son, if you shoot that man, you're going to have to cook our breakfast. [laughter] awe -- he was -- and our brea

i remember him talking about coming back from vietnam. when he got married. and they are showing now his widow. when they got married, he drove, and his army uniform through the south. he could not stop and use the restrooms at gas stations because they were white only gas stations. and yet, that did not define him. he knew that he was the symbol for a lot of african-americans come a lot of minorities in america. if you can make it here, even if you start off from the bronx and you are kid of immigrants and you don't go to west point, you don't do fancy things. i think that is the real essence of who he is as a person. the valleys. who talks about hard work and? colin powell was a reflection for all of us to take a step back, forget about the dysfunction in washington and how everybody is going to show. just celebrate what is great about america. the way you have just talked about, harris. we may be in a bad place right now, but we are resilient. not just the military, but as a nation. that's what he stood for. >> harris: you mentioned alma powell. three chil

the selection of interment of an unknown soldier from vietnam war. there was some skepticism and unknown, that there would be unknowns as we had advanced identifying technology which was introduced by the first world war but they had been made more reliable and reliably to identify remains whether there would be an unknown by the 1980s, an unknown soldier had been -- had been selected. that comes up later in a moment and a brief note, son of hamilton for the third we spoke about earlier, introduced a resolution congress, here's a republican congressman from new york from earlier congress introduced a resolution to select serve the unknown soldier from the vietnam war at the tomb of the unknown soldier but his revolution coupled into the larger package which was passed later. i mentioned, i got a little bit ahead of myself, the unknown soldier from vietnam was successfully identified so there was some thought as people were working through the challenges, missing in action following the vietnam war, the family of air force first lieutenant michael bel

war, and the vietnam war is actually empty -- an empty vessel. is that correct? >> yeah, that is correct. and it is likely to remain the case. again, you know, it's -- you know, you hope it's not -- you hope it is not fallen in service of our country, but it's small small solace that dna technology and identifying technology has reached a point where, you know, we can identify those who give that last measure of devotion. so their family has some closure so they can be repay treeuated in name and that their families have a place to -- their families have a place to pay tribute in a very personal way instead of, you know, the tomb of the unknown is a beautiful memorial and an important way that anyone who lost something could pay tribute through the channel of the unknown. but, you know, i think it's reasonable to say that being able to identify people so that they can have a more personal tribute is better. so it's really, you know, it's -- we're fortunate. and, i think, you know, something to be said for the ability of, you know, more rapid medi

and just all coincided with the end of the use of agent orange and vietnam. michael newton from oregon state university was getting surplus barrels of agent orange that dead air force. couldn't use any more in vietnam and was praising the use of these things and how they were going to transform forestry forever. thing they started to split blanket these huge, clear cut with a lot of major orange and drift. some we could smell it, and her within a few days our garden was dead. the kids were all sick again. and the dog got so sick he died. carol has been just a tireless champion for uncovering true, factual, scientifically based information and trying to get that for decision maker. oh, these people are just liberal it, they're woodson, and i'm a member senior thinking, bruce you somewhere you got it. you've got to help these people. they are literally, they know nobody's willing to help them. and i said, you've got to produce the experts that have you can produce the experts. i'll take your case on and we'll go, we'll go to battle over the whole suby, milan, f

that was a mixture of $240.00 and $2.00 for 5 t agent orange that was banned in vietnam. and nobody realised that the same chemicals were being used here in a still going on. mm. agent orange was a tremendously destructive omen of a tremendously destructive war in its own unique way agent orange was the most destructive instance of chemical warfare in modern history. when i was still 5 years old or something, i read everything. it was still during the war and i read something about all the birds been killed by oil spills from ships being blown out. that's what i worried about during the war was all those birds come and mike didn't help me and i started reading letters. i'm not sure who i sent them to or wanting some. what did take care of those birds, please? maybe that was the beginning of my activism. ha, ha ha. ah, we moved here and 74. the kids were just part of this landscape and they were down along the river. they knew everything that lived down there. my kids loved it, i mean they were part of it. there were beavers and otters in the river then too. of course all

at sfo, kenny choi, kpix 5 news. >>> vietnam airlines will open new routes connecting los angeles to hanoi. >>> kpix 5 news has learned that the dmv is warning its offices to be aware of electric cars during driving tests. this is after a gilroy teenager failed his test while driving a tesla. >> it warned me that the car was on its own at a stop sign, and she said it happened twice before we left the parking lot. >> teslas have regenerative braking systems, meaning the car slows down when you take your foot off of the accelerator. the instructor failed the driver because he did not physically move his foot from the accelerator to the break. the dmv has changed the teenager score to passing and it has notified its employees that regenerative braking cannot be scored as an error. >> he was very happy when he got that call that he actually had passed his driving test. >> can you imagine a teenager? freedom! >>> we have a new friend that has come back tonight. >> fog? >> around the golden gate bridge, it would happen all summer, but since we are about to december and we don't see this al

the vietnam unknown soldier in testing they confirmed that in fact the vietnam war was lt. michael - so at the request of his family, his remains were moved it closer to home to the national cemetery in missouri. and that happening in 1998, then in 1999 on a summer 17, which was constitution day and more importantly for the purpose of prisoner of war missing in action recognition day, part of the defense predesignated the vietnam war tumor at the tomb of the unknown soldier for all of those missing service members who never made a home. so in a similar way for george washington as a permanent tribute to those lost, even though there is no one directly. as we get to a point here, i want to mention that we are part of the bigger quilt of recognition and commemorations the bigger coalition of commemorations i should say, all the important centennial of the entity is the society of the honor guard to the unknown soldier founded in part by late great neale cosby and they have done some fantastic work organizing the commemoration of an really wonderful research and their websites

[gunfire] >> and in early april of 65, i was on the plane to vietnam. when i got there, took a couple days to get accreditation cards and got on a c 123 milk run flight that went all the way, stopping at every town and every base in vietnam and got to donating -- da nang. i was in the war so quick i have not gotten to the black market. i was wearing chinohs and loafers and how i have a picture of myself on my first combat operation. my clothing in a samsonite suitcase, that my mother had given me for high school graduation. this dark skinned gentleman came running up, you are mister galloway and i said yes. pi photographer, you come with me and what about my suitcase and he said a rude think about my suitcase and put it in the aerial squadron terminal and dragged me onto a c 130 and i didn't know where we were going or what was happening. if you have ever seen somebody who stuck a stick in an and he'll it was like that. people were just going every which way and there was a sense of panic in the air on this little airstrip. henry ran over to a helicopte

they deny that the children are male, vietnam, veterans are affected. so i'm hoping with your law suit, the things will change that it'll be, it'll stick this time. ah, no, i case di, frustrating. ah, ah, these companies have been able to avoid accountability for what they've done. i think your case is incredibly important as sort of the last opportunity that we may have to hold these, these, these companies accountable for the ground doing that. they knew they were engaged in when they made this poisonous product. the national forest here is no longer sprayed. and the reason is, a series of lawsuits that began with the caps lawsuit. but i want all those other people how, where people write down the road that i have private timberland around them that's getting sprayed with they're going to keep these chemicals on the market. no matter what the only hope is for that community rights movement to keep insisting that we have the right to protect all of our communities from being poisoned. and maybe it's a pipe dream. but if these corporations have human ri

it really skipped. >> the bay area has a second largest vietnam population in the country. the new route will increase business opportunities, academic exchanges and promote tourists both to and from the city. >> it plans to open new routes connecting los angeles. plaintiff. >>> the dmv is warning offices to be aware of electric cars after a teenager failed his test while tariffing a tesla. > warns me -- at a stopsign and said it happened tice before we left the parking lot. >> tesla's have braking systems meaning the car slows down when you take your foot off the accelerator. the instructor failed the driver since he did not physically move his foot from the accelerator to the brake. the dmv has since changed his score to passing and it has told its employee that the braking cannot be scored as an error. >> changing times. >>> an estimate on how much cash americans spent on cyber monday. this morning twitter has a new boss. >> stocks bounced back on monday after last week's cell off. the dow gained 236 points. the nasdaq added 291. the s&p500 rose 60. wall street is a sess

what happens of china threatens vietnam?e idea to put a finer point if we can develop the military strategy in those countries we don't have to do crazy things later that would be more costly. >> and that point we really got tired is the anti- hegemonic coalition talk about the dynamics and how we have such an anti- hegemonic coalition? >> basically the idea china is too strong to balance alonea anybody individually it is half the total power if use conventional metrics like economics. >> so standing alone but we are too far. >> we need countries to work together so what does that look like? then to beto counterproductive it could have toonv much commitment with anti- hegemonic coalition so a country like india is pretty good we can do more and more of india pulls a lot of its own weight notte just being a tributary of the united states and other places to have more former all formal relationships and formal commitments and i south korea and philippines that is that frontline because of the chinese get out they will push out

we have a vast collection on the vietnam war itself.hope that it would encourage everyone who is interested in this topic to come into our buildings and do more research. thirdly, i would hope that the visitors walk away with their own stories. oftentimes, the images that we see of the vietnam war are of unidentified vietnamese people. the viennese americans resettled and found new lives, one of the largest communities of vietnamese americans. a lot of the second and third generation of vietnamese americans are trying to find out more of what happened during that time period. this is a period which was unspoken, and the families they do not speak about the war. the war was not a topic that was a part of the conversation. it was unspoken recognition that it was a horrific period and we do not speak of it. there is a lot of aggression from a younger generation that struggles to understand their uncles and aunts and loved ones. it offers an opportunity for them to see the experience of the vietnamese civilians themselves. we see the intera

the united states and the third world in the era of vietnam.he's going to tell us about presence of the arab vietnam one who has no reputational problems whatsoever, richard nixon. >> thank you will be very short talk. i would like to never hear me? i would like to start with a story that takes us into the arena of the nixon presidency that may not be terribly familiar. may not be one that springs to mind. the subject is the relationship between the united states and brazil the story begins on december 13 covid 1968. that was the date when the brazilian military eliminated most remaining elements of brazilian democracy and a crackdown on every asset of civilian society. it started as it turned out a new era of economic prosperity badly worsen economic equality in the country. beginning to of widespread torture to ensure obedience of the regime. the johnson ministration suspended aid but left it largely up to the coming nixon to decide how to proceed. his answer came pretty quickly in may 1969 his administration restored aid to the resilient reg

the united states and the third world in the era of vietnam."ay he's going to tell us about a president from era of vietnam, one who has no reputational problems whatsoever, richard nixon. >> thanks, jeff. this will be a very short talk. you're right. i'd like to, umm, everybody can hear me -- yes. i'd like to start with a story that takes us into the arena of -- an arena of the nixon presidency that may not be terribly familiar. probably not one that immediately springs to mind. the subject is relationship between the united states and brazil, and the story begins december 13, 1968. that was the day the brazilian military junta eliminated most remaining elements of brazilian democracy and cracked down on just about every facet of brazilian society. it was the start, as it turned out, the new era of economic austerity, and the beginning of the widespread use of torture to ensure public obedience to the regime. the johnson administration suspended u.s. aid and left it up to the nixon administration on how to proceed. nixon's answer came pretty qu

which is why i was taking him even before going to vietnam. after coming back, got back into his writing and ultimately i wrote my first book with a title from his great war novel. someone else. sir? anybody yucca -- anybody yucca >> we are proud to have you as our senator. [applause] >> i'm proud to be in the senate. it is a great institution. i like it very much. why don't we start signing some books? >> wednesday, advocates testify on hunger among veterans and service members before a house agriculture subcommittee. live coverage beginning at 12:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, online it's c-span.org or watch on c-span now, our new video app. >> a new mobile video app from c-span. c-span now. download today. >> commerce secretary gina raimondo joined white house deputy press secretary karine john pierre for a briefing on the president's infrastructure agenda. she addressed her departments well in the newly signed a bill.

united states air force, vietnam veteran.d and godfather and came back do a country that didn't welcome them with open arms and a lot of veterans who served this country particularly black came back to a country that weren't welcome but marched forward. >> glad i asked. thank you very much. >> you got me. >> commend it to all. what a great conversation. two friends of this broadcast. >>> coming up, in all the noise surrounding vaccines one new book calls the existence a story of what went right. the author standing by to talk with us after this. no, he's not in his room. ♪♪ ♪♪ dad, why didn't you answer your phone? ♪♪ your mother loved this park. ♪♪ she did. ♪♪ one of my favorite supplements is qunol turmeric. turmeric helps with healthy joints she did. and inflammation support. unlike regular turmeric supplements qunol's superior absorption helps me get the full benefits of turmeric. the brand i trust is qunol. >>> over the past few weeks we have seen new covid cases, hospitalizations rising in certain parts of the country,