only this work, but wars in the future, and prevent future wars. from that came the idea of the league of nations, to which he devoted not only his political career, but arguably, his life and his place in history. the artifacts we have in this house can tell us the story of woodrow wilson's involvement with world war i. if i had to pick one artifact to explain that story, it would be this. , butoks like a brass vase you will recognize that it is an casing.rtillery shell this was from the first shot fired by american troops in world war i in europe. a couple of things about this. it was fired in october of 1917. general pershing, the commander of the american expeditionary europe, had the thought that you should save this and send it to president wilson as a memento of america's involvement in the war. it is interesting that we determine war in april, but the first shot was fired in october. it took six months to go from the idea of entering the war, to being on the ground engaging with the enemy. most remarkable is that not only artillery shell ca

navy, built in 1943, seeing service from world war ii through the gulf war. here's a preview. >> welcome to the battleship wisconsin. some general statistics about the ship include the fact that she is large and fast. 187 feet two inches wide. fully loaded means she comes in at 58,000 tons.

a war is never very far away.se hamlets and villages are the real soul of the country. 4/5 of the people of south vietnam live in them. it is here that these dusty trails through the countryside, these huts and farmlands and jungles, that the thrust of vietnam social russell -- revolution is directed. in vietnam, revolution is a double edged war. the enemy uses it, it is what they call the aggressive war they are using against the people over here. that is the story. there is nothing mysterious about the kind of revolution the enemy has in mind. same thing we have seen in many parts of the world, ever since the communist revolution 50 years ago. over here, they have killed over 20,000 civilian leaders. now to the story of this civilian population. it is public knowledge that these people and their fight for freedom, have lost proportionately already more troops than we have lost in the whole of world war ii. yet, in spite of this, there have always been men brave enough in this country to step forward and take the

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opening battle of world war ii. where else, after all, were americans this uniform -- in uniform being bombed by nazi pilots? these were the planes that hitler had learned to franco four years before united states entered world war ii. so on one side of the war, the spanish republic, there were spaniards who supported the republic, these international volunteers, a small number of soviet aides, military advisers. on the other side were the spanish nationalists being heavily supported by hitler and mussolini. as i mentioned, mussolini sent, ultimately, 80,000 ground troops. hitler had about 5,000 men on ground in spain at any time. most of them aviators or support for the aviation team, more than 100 aircraft. and for hitler, this war was not just a chance to bring a sympathetic dictator to power, it was a chance to try out a lot of the weapons that he was planning to use in the much larger war he was planning to start and, indeed, did start three years later. and a lot of the german weapons we know from that war, fo

going to war. seward was secretary of state and it's one of his huge accomplishments during his long tenure in office not just under lincoln but under lincoln's successor andrew johnson. seward i think played the most important role in putting the trent crisis back in the box. part of it is logistics. brits decided to put a show of force and to send some soldiers to north america to show they were serious. by the time they got there, the st. lawrence river was blocked by ice. they had to land their soldiers in portland, maine, which somewhat undermined the muscle flexing effort to show that you can't fool with the brits. there is more to that but realistically, stewart and lincoln understood that one war at a time, there was plenty of historical precedents for fearing what would happen if the civil war becomes tangled with an international war. seward and lincoln had their hands full fighting the south. they clearly look for ways to avoid any troubles with france or britain. after the war, they squ

this is an early war example and a mid-war example. to those two formations i talked about that commanderily brigade decisions, we have some formations -- we have some divisional commanders who now have to make some decisions. divisional and core commanders received almost no training, no instruction, no theory about how .o conduct military operations they learned on the job, they .sed what they knew beauregard at the battle of shiloh is reputed to have created his confederate formation by putting one of his .ore in the frontline you probably know that albert johnson commanded the confederate army at shiloh. beauregard is the man who devised the battle order and true up the formation. he put one core and line directly behind it, and the other two core filed in in what is known as column of brigade. vary,finitions of column depending on what level of command we are talking about. in a military sense, a column is a series of formations stacked one behind the other. whether they are packed tight or spread out, what was considered a playab

that is, in active theaters of war. and the accused ranged from confederate guerrillas to saboteurs and spies, whose actions clearly did violate the laws of war, too outspoken confederate sympathizers in areas that were still contested, to cheating peddlers and prostitutes and thieves hanging around military camp's. davis had no problem with these military trials. but the legal justification for the smaller number of trials in the northern states were not so clear. men were tried for discouraging enrollment in the armed forces. fomenting resistance to the draft, and encouraging desertion. those were clearly the kinds of acts that military commissions punish according to the international laws or. -- laws of war. but what about an offender like the famous clement elva landy, who gave public speeches and disaffected areas of the midwest, where the majority of the people were really critical of the war. he gave public speeches that are bitterly attacking the administration, and saying the war was both wrong and hopeless. w

i-- some about the time for these world war i vets. it was run by a very qualified man, a good friend of the hardings in the senate he had been in hawaii at the time, they connected with him. that was charles forbes. he was extremely the wrong person for this position. oh my gosh. in the end, he took about $2 million in kickbacks for setting up hospitals. he took supplies that were meant for the suffering soldiers and sold them at a profit. he had people who did this for him as well. one of them later exposed him and shot himself. it was really a scandal. how did this come about? when florence heard about this, because she had contacts in these hot bills, and eating her close friends -- contacts in these hospitals, including her close friends. she knew about what was going on, but she did not know how bad it was. when she found out, there was a lot of pressure on the president. the president was right there, he was furious, he apparently tried to a throttle ford. he sent him away and accepted his resignation when he came back. many of

the war on terror, the war in afghanistan, and the war in iraq. i treat each of them at length in mission failure. in afghanistan, the familiar pattern repeated itself. american military powers kabul,ed in driving from the capital, the taliban regime, which is given shelter and encouragement to the organization that launched the attacks on the united states, namely, al qaeda. the taliban retreated to pakistan, where they received money, safe haven, training, and encouragement from the pakistani government. returned to afghanistan and mounted an insurgency against the american sponsored governments that continues to the present day. rock, it represents the largest, the most expensive, and the most controversial mission of transformation in which the united states engage throughout this entire period. the familiar pattern repeated itself. the united states ousted saddam hussein's government, captured saddam hussein, but was not able to foster a cohesive sense of nationhood among the disparate peoples of iraq, nor was the united states able to instal

this will not be the last war. this will not be the last war but my last war. your job is to prepare yourself for that time. so douglas took his advice and went off to west point. incidentally, mom followed along because with her oldest boy in the u.s. navy, her husband going off to fight in the philippines, she really did not have anywhere else to go. so she took up residence for the next four years in the hotel. people joked that arthur -- although mary macarthur performed a valuable service. she would often host an off-campus gathering place. it was not all bad. she was very much a cadet friend . west point was greatly formative for douglas macarthur. credo2, he said that his had been duty, honor, and country and west point really influenced him until his last days. in many different ways. obviously through the education. he had one of the most outstanding academic records in the history of west point. first captain in his class. one of the things that really drove home to him was the idea that the way to become a leader and a good soldier was on the athleti

even the modoc war. henry morton stanley, he cut his teeth as a reporter for the indian wars and became drinking buddies with santanta. the press in the east, generally speaking, was in favor of a piece policy approach, a humane policy. the western press, on the other hand, was more for genocide and extermination. fortunately, both the eastern and western press send correspondence to the field and they covered not just major but also minor campaigns. newspaper accounts are invaluable sources for the indian wars. they were well covered and generally pretty accurately covered. the spin in the east was much different than the west. >> can you hear me? so with unity and americans in mind, what your thoughts on the 21st century indian wars and the issues and standing rock right now? >> what are my thoughts on the issues of standing rock right now, and i'm going to claim a historians ignorance. i am sincerely not a student of present-day indian issues. i don't feel really competent to comment on the, to be ent

so this set in motion 25 years of war, unrelenting, brutal war, i were so brutal that in 1861 as union troops were withdrawn from arizona and new mexico to meet the federal -- confederate invasion of new mexico, arizona was completely to populated and the american frontier was thrown back, one of the few times in history that ever happened. as cochise and mangus waged a great war against the americans, soon more american troops came. they came from california under general james carlton and they fought a great battle at apache pass, and the soldiers might have been destroyed except a soldier made a fortunate shot and shot mangas coloradas out of his horse. it took them, who is nearing 70 years old, a long time to recover from that wound. and he retired. -- and he was tired more. as one gets older, one does get tired of these adventures. he wanted to make peace. he went to new mexico and sent out peace overtures to general carlton, but peace was the last thing carlton wanted. he had arrived with 2000 troops to late to fight the rebels, so he was determined to fight the indians and destr

gone from bag bad war to being a not so bad war. maybe a good war. eh.ow the narrative, bipartisan narrative, democrats and republicans and president obama, too, this was failed war -- sorry, we lost but we tried our best with the best of intentions, noble exemptions, and we should remember our soldiers because they fought for freedom and for each other. that's literally what is president obama said. and this kind of narrative is being used, increasingly dominant in popular culture and politics and government, state department, it's really strong. i go to washington, dc and given talks there, and sat next to an american ambassador. the american policy people really do believe in northwestern exceptionalism. they do -- american exceptionalism, and they do. and the practical impact of that is that this means now instead of learning negative lessons from the vietnam war, 20 years ago, it was don't get involved in anymore foreign wars now the lesson the pentagon can't to track from vietnam is we can do this better. we can learn from our mistakes and do bette

myth alwaysee, distorts history, but the indian wars are like the frontier in general, the indian wars are particularly uniquely susceptible to mythmaking. i would argue after working on my book that there is no other at stake in our nation's history that is more deeply steeped in myth than the error of the indian wars of the american west. years, much of both popular and even academic history, film and fiction, has depicted the period as an absolute struggle between good and evil. , he rose and roles villains as necessary to accommodate a changing national conscience. in the first 80 years following the tragedy of wounded knee and 1891, which marked the end of indian resistance, the nation romanticized and lionized indian fighters, while at the same time trivializing or vilifying the indians who resisted them. the army appeared as the shining nice of an enlightened of anment -- knights enlightened government dedicating to civilizing the west and its native american inhabitants. know when i think better conveys that sense than the cinematic duo of john wayne and director "sheford in fi

world war ii, the korean war, and desert shield/desert storm. if we think about technological changes from the 1940's to the 1990's, it is amazing the evolution of the ship and how spaces were repurposed. the post office was a hub in world war ii when there were 2900 sailors aboard. the same for the korean war when it was around 2000. /desert desert shield storm, around 1500. the ship is not a cruise ship. where the sailors sleep is not a priority, compared to the navigation ability, the war ability, and the survivability of the ship. the way it is configured is as it was in 1990. i would like to show you some of those racks right now. follow me, please. if you were a junior sailor, you had a rock this close to the post office, you knew that it would be noisy. watch out for this anklebiter. these were the racks installed. these were installed in the 1980's when the ship was recommissioned. they are coffin racks. they look like a coffin. it opens up. up, this isn it where the sailors would store everything they needed for deployment. whether that

we keep going to war without regard to the cost of war.ccording to the website costofwar.org, is $6 billion. many people still believe the us should be and operator of the world's police and impose democracy everywhere even where there is no tradition or belief in democracy and have no to tunisians to make democracy possible and even though we fail to make that happen in iraq even in libya now i would note, who are our enemies today? the military people would tell you they are most worried about russia and china, rising china and belligerent russia, but if you watch television you would think the terrorists are the problem. the sad fact is the terrorists win when we overreact and i would argue we have been overreacting since 9/11. for example, i heard somebody make the comparison at a presentation not long ago, you are more likely to die from a fall in the bathtub from a terrorist attack. perspective is important. think about this. the pentagon budget is 10 times more than the state department would we put our money into the military, keep

, a much wider war and perhaps a nuclear war.urchill argued partitioned vietnam, get half a loaf and get out. the americans were not quite ready to accept that advice. the british block of the american plan for a coalition in indochina. psalmist believe this stage often military intervention by the united states in vietnam in 1954. these three disputes between eisenhower and churchill did not by any means lessened the infection and respect between the two leaders. but they do reflect, ladies and element the deeper differences between the two nations at midcentury -- ladies and gentlemen. america was just entering an era of global power and hegemony. britain's day of global influence had ended and he was struggling to adapt to a different role. churchill and eisenhower met at the crossroads in early 1950, the early 1950s. when america's anti-communist sentiment was at its most intense, winston gently tried to constrain, to buffer american hubris. with little success. the united states would have to learn for itself the painful les

the cold war. but is a different story washington became the international capital of the free world and it had a lot of impact on the development of internal politics as well but that story is a different story. i am talking about the of washington during that era from 1890-1940 in the development of the federal triangle, the mall, and things in such of that. any other questions? >> tells a little more about the decisions with respect to the lincoln memorial -- why there was a decision to have a memorial, that sort of thing. important.very park which is what became the area for the lincoln -- it was the development of washington as a harbornd a cleaned up and when they cleaned up the harbor, they added to the building of east potomac park idea behind it is potomac park was to be a andrial to the civil war with lincoln and grant, a grand memorial at the photos l is a very important concept. it had not been achieved because of where it is but it was a very important part of the concept of east potom

that's next on "war stories." ♪ >> wel >> welcome to "war stories."'m oliver north coming to you from patriots point. this is the world war ii destroyer, a fighting ship with a remarkable history. at normandy, her guns fired to protect american soldiers landing on the beach. in the space of 09 minu90 minut planes attacked her. the heroic efforts saved the ship and she made her way back to the u.s. and saw action again in the korean war. the brave soldiers who served aboard these vessels called them tin cans. they shot down enemy aircraft, hunted and sank submarines, screened for larger ships, provided naval gunfire support for troops on shore. and delivered the mail. their jack of all trades capabilities put them in harm's way against far superior foes. despite their valiant service, they're less well known than the capitol ships they protected. they might be better celebrated, but they didn't go anywhere without their destroyer escorts. tonight on "war stories," the tin can sailors of world war ii. ♪ >> more >> more than 300,000 served aboard the tin

this aircraft never quite made it to the war. it was very heavily utilized after the war as a reconnaissance aircraft. once we got it, we had to put it back together again. one of the things you may notice, these rivets are raised. this tells us that this was an after-market modification, if you will. these are the original factory rivets. the difference is these are flushed. this allows the wind to go smoothly over the aerodynamic body of the airplane. these are raised, because we don't have the capability of flush riveting. the air force found had they left these rivets up, it would've slowed the aircraft down by 40 miles per hour. these were never painted. if you painted this airplane, you just added 4000 pounds of weight. right now, we are in the nose section of the b-29 "peachy." this airplane has a number of different stations. all the way in the nose is the bombardier. he has the bomb site, and his actual work in a 16 or 18 our mission lasted five or 10 minutes. when you move back a little bit, to the left, is the pilot po

army during world war ii. the film traces the attribution during war and peace and showing their work as teachers, judges, scientists, artist, musicians, athletes and soldiers. in 2011, this 40-minute film was chosen to be preserved in the film registry of the congress and was recently restored by the national archives. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> my prepared text today was to have been make thiy name be remembered in all generation. but i think i'm going to depart from my prepared sermon. while i was listening to the sergeant so low, i kept looking up our service, i was thinking of the men who serve us. i see some of them here this morning. sergeant jackson, lieutenant carter and. >> first class is right. >> i met somebody that haven't seen quite a long time. the last time i saw this man, well, one of my members got me a ticket to yankee stadium to see joe lewis versus max. and much for greater state. and joe lewis, training for the fight of his life. this time it's a fight between man and man, but between nation and nation

that's next on "war stories." ♪ >> wel >> welcome to "war stories."'m oliver north coming to you from patriots point. this is the world war ii destroyer, a fighting ship with a remarkable history. at normandy, her guns fired to protect american soldiers landing on the beach. in the space of 09 minu90 minut planes attacked her. the heroic efforts saved the ship and she made her way back to the u.s. and saw action again in the korean war. the brave soldiers who served aboard these vessels called them tin cans. they shot down enemy aircraft, hunted and sank submarines, screened for larger ships, provided naval gunfire support for troops on shore. and delivered the mail. their jack of all trades capabilities put them in harm's way against far superior foes. despite their valiant service, they're less well known than the capitol ships they protected. they might be better celebrated, but they didn't go anywhere without their destroyer escorts. tonight on "war stories," the tin can sailors of world war ii. ♪ >> more >> more than 300,000 served aboard the tin

war. to pour out his blood, treasures, tears like water rather than to submit to the loss of honor and renowned. the washington post was charmed with such manly sentiments, responding the next day with a warm editorial round of applause. well done, nobly spoken, the paper raved. theodore roosevelt, you have found your proper place at last. all hail." that is the end of the quote from the post and the end of the quote from my book. but paul did not hail. roosevelt dismissed the non-hailers as members of a cult of non-mobility. -- non-virility. "it was the supreme test of a man's character." he thought "no triumph of pieces quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war." so how did roosevelt develop this war lust of his? i mentioned, and you already knew i assumed that as a child he was very weak. the only way he could get strong and conquer as mother played him so much that when he red by -- read by candlelight he didn't have the strength of breath to blow up the candle. he had to call a pa

in world war ii.emonies has been a journalist for nearly 25 years and is a weekday morning use -- news anchor. you can see monday through friday on wake-up washington mike was on her with a local emmy nomination for his primetime special

war i or world war ii. the civil war has made a major change in the size and role of government and corporations. and how those two interact concerned many northerners, who had been in favor supporting emancipation and civil rights for african-americans. some of this is simply an idea of there's government construction. certainly charles francis adams jr. argued -- some of this i'll just say regular corruption. part of this is also because you have a lot of the idealogical leaders dying. thaydeus stevens, charles sumner who was a one-issue person to a large degree. they're dying and replaced by a new breed, where you have the chairman of the national republican committee. at one point while he's chairman, he's on the payroll for four different railroads. here you have the speaker of the house, james g. blaine. while blaine is speaker of the house, cook buys his mortgage. he owns the mortgage for blaine's house. so these are things we probably say okay, this is not quite right. but that's just at one level.

in post office was a hub world war ii and the korean war. the if you think about sleeping accommodations for a ip, it is not a cruise ship. is not a sailors sleep priority, compared to the survivability. is asy it is configured it was in 1990. i want to show you some of those racks. follow me, please. youou were a junior sailor, knew that it would be noisy. watch out for this anklebiter. racks installed. cks. are coffin ra they look like a coffin. you open it and this is where a sailor stores everything they need for deployment. this is your storage area. uniforms,ies, dress and you have to have a couple of uniforms. not a lot of room. sailors are inventive and they learn how to pack well. there would be a little bit of privacy in these racks. blue curtains. not noise reducing. it keeps it a little more quiet. you did not spend a lot of time in a rack. you had so made different things you had to go to and tend to. by the time you got to your rack, it didn't matter. you'd sleep for the well. tty well.pre in world war ii, it was cramped condit

it is because of the cold war. this is no accident, it is really the reason the united states opens its doors. over a half of a million cuban refugees arrive. to set foot on florida or on american soil, it makes them refugees who have protected legal status. unlike any other group in the western hemisphere. the reason is because castro was in power. it is an explicit part of u.s. foreign policy. the cubans are important for a couple of reasons. refugee policy is a version of an exceptional cuban policy. refugee resettlement programs are put into place to help cubans, but then become used for all refugees. they involve finding them jobs, housing, creating a bureaucracy to help aid in their settlement. in 1956, the cuban status adjustment act has passed, which has a remarkable political story. it normalizes and gives citizenship to cuban refugees, and also allows them to become dual citizens. there is no dual citizens in the united states in 1966. the first ones were cuban. why is that? because they are passionate co

if i can win the war and free all the slaves i'll do that. it's about winning the war. so people impute a lot of different motives to him. go with what was there. and it's also over the years it's become forgotten the that war was not about slavery in south. it wasn't. the war was about expanding slavery to all that new territory in the west. everything from the missouri purchase to california was new, whether those states were going to go free or slave was a huge issue. a huge issue in the south because of course they would like to have more slave -- some of those territories become slave states. that main the. her they had in congress and in washington and et cetera. it was huge issue in the north because abolitionists got bigger and bigger, and more importantly, because free workers in the north were afraid that if that territory went slave, it would be -- they wouldn't be able to get work there because there would be slaves there doing the work. so, what his motives were, what his intentions were, if you go with what he said and wrote ex-believed a union in which an

they have an example here of world war ii and gulf war era trays. the obvious difference is that one is metal and one is plastic. however, note the food portion size, we're coming out of the depression and men will small. we want them to take in a lot of calories. they're working hard on a nonair conditioned ship. they're burning a lot of calories we need them to eat more. when i come into the service, not so much, they want me to eat less. as we leave this area, we'll pass by a doe nut shop. it was not always a doe nut shop. it use to be a butcher shop. it would process whole halves of beef and hog, but in the gulf war era, things come prepackaged we don't need that butcher shop any more, we turn it into a doe nut shop. the fuel that runs the navy. let's go to the serving line, follow me. . here, we're able to see the entire enlisted gally. it's difficult to see at best, but on the far side, there's another serving line. and depending on what area you served on this ship, the ship is going back and forth. the one that we're in now is typically give

when world war ii ended, soldiers came home, then wtonige got the korean war and the cold war.since then we've maintained a large standing army and a huge intelligence bureaucracy that's been involved in endless conflicts around the world. we have been involved in something almost all the time that has resulted in the death of milliondeathsof millions of t billions of dollars. i think the number is now roughly $6 trillion the reason those numbers keep going up is because the people who weren't injured come home and we are involved in medical care for them for the rest of their lives and the cost of medical care as you know keeps going up the other piece is the first to maintain the flow of oil and to make sure those pathways remain open. in 1980 there was a sort of crisis in which president carter threatened to use nuclear force if necessary to keep it flowing so we are still living with the consequences of what we have been doing and continue to do in the middle east so you have not going on and that's are tired of the war and our involvement especially now that we are less de

we have already lost the war. in some ways, the rationale for accepting all of them, to fight the communist power over there, coto have a covert -- hert of people who are fighting because we are basically losing the war. sameis going on at the time that the emerging language of human rights is gaining faction. this was a war against the citizens, it was deemed understood to be a very unfair, inhumane war. that produces a different kind of language. ofjustifies the significance vietnamese refugees in very different terms. thatrgument is useful in fighting a cold war. we have an obligation because we lost the war to aid our allies. of stakes are still a set cold war foreign policy stakes, but we will protect our own. we have allies and other places of the world. if we abandon our allies in vietnam, we are basically cutting lose our allies elsewhere. that is the arguments used to bring in hundreds of thousands of vietnamese. --have to protect those in who are our allies in that fight. it begins to change how we imagi

. -- newly at war. again, he would address congress a total of three times. as the speaker mentioned and as we all know, born to an american mother, we all take great pride of that, churchill jokes, as we heard, that an another world he might have come here that they as a member of congress. his leadership truly spanned the atlantic. his call to accident, his call to action still the resolve of the british. he inspired our admiration as surely as he did the british. he is a hero in our nation as well as in his own. and a comment he made about the british, what i think really mirrored what he must have thought about america and his american relatives, he said, speaking of the british but thinking of america, we have not journeyed across the centuries , across the oceans come across the mountains, across the prairies because we are made of sugar candy. churchill and president roosevelt guided the world through some of the grimmest years of the last century. they shared a vision for what needed to be done,

coming up on "war stories." ♪ i'm oliver north and this is "war stories." do you fight an enemy so dangerous, so desperate he's literally willing to kill himself in order to destroy you? you fight to the death, that's how. on the island of okinawa, that's exactly what the soldiers, sailors, around marines did in a gut wrenching final showdown with japanese forces in the spring of 1945. this is the story of what was to be the last battle of world war ii. the bloodiest conflict of the pacific theater, with over 600 wounded and more than 100,000 japanese soldiers and equal number of civilians died. this would become japan's brutal last stand against overwhelming american force. at sea, ferocious fighting between american ships an sued seed a kamikaze pilots killed more sailors than any other battle, including pearl harbor. and on land, one soldier called the battleground the most ghastly corner of hell he had ever witnessed. spring, 1945. the tide of war had turned, but it wasn't over yet. one year earlier at normandy, allied forces invaded, putting hitler on

he spent decades shaping movements against war and for social justice. >> at the end of the vietnam warople lked away. campuses shut wn. e military was described by rine conels anmilitary history as being on theerge of collap. they wald away. the counterculture walked away. we all walk away. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in north dakota, police arrested over 100 people this weekend who gathered for a peaceful march opposing construction of the $3.8 billion dakota access pipeline. the demonstrators, whoho call ththemselves protectors not protesters, were arrested afterr they w were confronted by popole in riot gear, carrying assault rifles. they say they police pepper sprayed them and then arrested them en masse. this is footage from the sacred stone camp. >> you are all under arrest. you're under arrest. [indiscernible] >> do not be afraid. !>>> heyey amy: t those arresested face chs ranging fr engaging g in a riot, reckless endangerment, criminal trespass, assaulting an officer, and resisisting

there is a civil war and there's a proxy war among many foreign powers in syria.it's also a war of who gets to run their pipeline through syria. part of that mess is isis and isis in turn grew out of the chaos of iraq and isis also grew out of the chaos of libya. and hillary clinton approved that war in iraq and led them into libya. she has everything to do and her poor judgment has everything to do with the chaos around the middle east now that we are seeing full force in syria and what is really frightening now to me is that hillary has been but allfor a long time is stronger now. she is calling for a no-fly zone in syria and what that really means is not only bombing syria and taking out all of the antiaircraft positions, which means bombing population centers in syria, but it means shooting airplanes out of the sky who are violating the no-fly zone and not means we are going to war with russia. we are both nuclear armed powers and have 2000 nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. this is extremely dangerous territories that hillary clinton is rushing headlong i

now we are at the civil war. we have jumped over a few things. >> you do not want to hear about what dolly madison really did. congress was absolutely nuts at the time of the war of 1812. congressman and senators stayed in their own political taverns and got in fights in the streets. it was really bad. madison needed them brought together. dolly madison began to have her receptions and she would ask nice ladies and young women in town to come there, they were guests. and they would mix with the crowd and in those days, women sat on stools and the men moved behind them. well, everybody came, the whole congress came every week. and she served hot coffee, wine, and then she served what really was grog, heated whiskey in cups. everybody loved it. [laughter] and madison used the green room to get in the ones he needed to, two men, one from each party. it was very useful. people never forgot her for that. dolly was a bit of a street angel and a home devil -- [laughter] william seale: she very cleverly did that. and she

navy was launched in 1943 and saw service in world war ii through the gulf war. it's now decommissioned and berthed in norfolk, virginia at the nautica center, we toured below deck to see where the crew lived and work while at sea. >> welcome aboard the battleship wisconsin, we are here in norfolk, virginia. we're going to go below decks and look at main street navy life and how some of the sailors lived here and reacted on this ship during the gulf war. we're also going to be joined by matt palmer, a veteran of the gulf war era. follow me. >> hi. my name is matt pomer. i'm former crew member of the battleship wisconsin. i served the navy for 30 years, battleship wisconsin is my fourth duty station. i was stationed aboard from 1990 to '91. had the honor and privilege of working with the crew members on board this magnificent battleip

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navy was , launched in 1943 and saw service in world war ii through the gulf war. it is now decommissioned and berthed at the nauticus center. battleship operations manager clayton allen took us on a tour of the top decks with the captain admiral once lived and commanded the ship. clayton allen: good morning and welcome to the wisconsin, the battleship wisconsin. my name is clayton allen. i would like to welcome you to the battleship wisconsin. you will find behind me the 16 inch guns, the rifles that this ship is known for best. this ship came to be here through a long history. the ship was commissioned april 16, 1944, and then saw service in world war ii. it was decommissioned in 1948 and recommissioned in the korean war era, 1951. she saw service until 1958 and then sat in mothball status in philadelphia for almost 28 years. she was recommissioned in october of 1988 prior to the gulf war for ronald reagan's 600 -ship late. she saw service in the gulf war and after that she was decommissioned in september of 1991 and then sat in mothball for a short time before b