he was excited to get to walter reed to meet and see his wife.hey were expecting a baby and he wanted to see if it was a boy or a girl. it's a boy. 51 days later, just 51 days later, i saw j.d. at the air force memorial during our medal of honor ceremony for master sergeant john chapman and john's family is here. thank you so much for being here. he was in uniform. he stood up every time it was required with the support of his dad and his wife. the anthem, the invocation, and every other thing that we did. six weeks later, after just six weeks after this incident, he stood on his prosthetic leg for the first time. eight days later, he was literally walking doing laps around walter reed. and just yesterday, two months after i first met him, j.d. was visiting capitol hill with brigadier general mike martin from our resilience team on his new prosthetic leg. you know, i thought it was funny, early on in his stay at walter reed, j.d. hung a huge sign on his door that he wanted every visitor to see. and the sign read, i quote, "i am good. please say h

he was excited to get to walter reed to meet and see his wife.were expecting a baby and he wanted to see if it was a boy or a girl. it's a boy. 51 days later, just 51 days later i saw j. d. at the air force memorial during our medal of honor ceremony for master sergeant john chapman, and john stumpf theater thank you so much for being here. -- john's family is here. he was in uniform. he stood up every time. it was required, with the support of his dad and his wife. the anthem, the invocation and every other thing that we did. six weeks later after just six weeks after this incident, he stood on his aesthetic leg for the first time in eight days later he was literally walking doing laps around walter reed. and just yesterday, two months after i first met him, j. d. was visiting capitol hill with brigadier general mike martin from our resilience team on his new prosthetic leg. i thought it was funny early on in his state of walter reed, j. d. hung a huge sign on his door that he wanted every visitor to see. and the sign read, i quote, i am good. p

which created the necessity to record and study and collect and send it to what would become the walter reed army medical museum. all of those records that were created throughout the civil war -- can you hold this -- were series of even more than this, 23 volumes of what is the medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion. >> you have been waiting all night to do that. [laughter] >> holder microphone for her. you have been waiting, do it again. [applause] anybody wants to come up in an leaf through these, these are intense. abilitywhat created the for us to learn and for the medical field to advance. you have more inventions and investments than in the 150 years producing combined. >> question? >> best >> i would like to throw when one more for whoever wants to take it. -- the example declaration of the blockade which is a revolutionary step not only internally, but internationally had tremendous implications and the largest campaign of the war. you are right. proclamation is important because he is declaring to the world that the united states considers this rebellion and inter

pennsylvania center for brain injury and repair, the walter reed medical center, and the national institutes of health. we also ask the center for disease control to better understand what transpired in havana. we want to ensure that personnel have access to long-term -- long-term compensation coverage. we began discussing with other agencies and the white house possible language that we will share for your consideration once we have agency consensus, to make sure that diplomats and families receive the care they deserve. we're also establishing a position solely responsible for the longer-term outreach and assistant to impact personnel. -- assistance to impact personnel. mr. chairman and ranking members, i want to assure you we continue our efforts to leverage all governmental and medical and investigative intelligence and scientific capabilities to address the most pressing questions surround engagement. your support remains a key element to our success. allegedly tork identify and understand the mechanism for the cause of the injuries and the motive the mind these attacks, and the identit

centers of excellence such as the university of pennsylvania center for brain injury and repair, the walter reed military medical center. and the national institutes of health. we also asked the centers for disease control for their expertise to better understand what transpired in havana. in order to ensure our affected personnel have access to long-term worker's compensation coverage the department also works closely with the department of labor office of worker's compensation programs. while he found potential gaps in the ability to care for those affected we began discussing with other agencies in the white house, possible legislative language which we will share for your consideration once we have an interagency consensus to make sure our impacted diplomats and their families receive the care that they deserve without incurring personal financial burden. we are also establishing a new position solely responsible for the longer-term outreach and assistance for impacted personnel. mr. chairman and ranking member, in conclusion, i want to assure you that we continue our effort with leverage fo

walter reed, chair of the naacp told truman the story in the oval office and he said i had no idea it was as bad as that. >> they were being thrown out of army truck's. i think that had an impact on him as well. >> this notion of this evolution or d evolution from world war i to world war ii, i guess in terms of the aftermath, the same kind of response. to what degree do you both witness and specifically in your military career have you seen 30 years is a long enough time to see change over time, how different were things. you mentioned being from rural mississippi, how important that was. >> some places haven't changed. overall, when i'm in the uniform , i get the proper respect. because even if they do not respect me they respect the uniform, or they respect the rank. when you are out of uniform, you are sometimes not treated as well as you are with the uniform. so, as you said, they were being beaten in uniform. i don't really see that happening today, or over a 30-year career. there were some instances in georgia, last year or a year before, some soldiers in uniform were harassed

he used to do the same about going up to walter reed, where all the war wounded were. he didn't tell anybody he was going. he called me up one day, said i'm going to go out there, you want to go with me? and i knew it wasn't to do a news story or anything. he just wanted to make sure that i saw what was out there, and he would just go and he did that a lot. it was not just every once in a while. he just felt it was part of his duty to go out there and kind of check on the guys and see how they were. >> that's right. and he saw that as both in keeping with his military service, that your service isn't just begin and end in the beginning and ending of when you're active, that you are a steward of a long tradition. and he felt that in politics, too. senator udall was talking about mo ocl v hi as the senator said, in what bipartisan was, that you shared more as americans than as political opponents from different parties. and he went to visit mo udall when he was in the veterans hospital with parkinson's, long after he'd left the house because he was still tending that rel

walter reed, at the naacp, told president truman that story and president truman said i had no idea it was as bad as that. we have to do something. and not long thereafter was when we had the executive order. >> there was a return when the soldiers were going back to mississippi, and he heard they were being thrown out of army trucks. just, you are home. so i think that had an impact on him as well. >> this notion of the evolution , or devolution i guess you can say, from world war i to world war ii, i guess in terms of the aftermath of the same kind of response, maybe it is not as organized. but these instances are still happening to what degree have you both witnessed, maybe specifically in your military career, have you seen, 30 years is a long enough time to see some change over time. how different were things? you mentioned being from rural mississippi. you mentioned how important that was. how did places like that change over the course of your career? how do people respond to you differently as you are making your way through the military ranks? >> some places have not changed.

described the president being very concerned about strategy in afghanistan and talking about going to walter reed and seeing soldiers who had lost limbs in afghanistan and really the president was pressing his commanders hard. what are we doing there? what are we accomplishing? our guys are coming home out arms and legs. i want a clear justification before i agree to anything. in the story that's spun as very negative as the president ranting and raving. it was in that meeting and i saw the president asking the questions that i think every american wants their president to ask. if we're going to commit troops to battle and risk our soldiers' lives there ought to be a good reason, clear strategy and objective. he was pressing his commanders to give him that information. which i think is his job. he had every right to do it and what we want him to do. >> bill: you have spoken to woodward then about his book? >> not about this book. i was talking about the bush 43 administration. the trump administration made the decision not to. when an administration decides not to cooperate the only people talkin

reed hillview airport. i am joined by the three bear -- three brains behind all of this this is walter geiger and mike hennessyavid gooding. walter, i will start with you because this is the 10th year of airport day how did you get traction to keep this going. >> advertising. greatest displays in airplanes and benches cars and literary vehicles. of course, food. >> that always brings people in. >>reporter: what you do is you do not charge for any of it. you have planes, blackhawk helicopters, classic cars, but you are not charging. it is free parking and free to get in. how do you make this work financially? >> that question gets asked but we do fund this. we have volunteers and people behind us and the great thing is that we have people from the city. dave cortez and city chas and people with the city that support the event and they say that you could have an airport for the public and you guys have airport. i had a meeting of the minds hot hennessy night mixes with airport day and we have created this event for the whole family. it is for everybody and we are making it free. >>reporter: normally this is earl