Tomorrow Town, Tennessee

We held a town hall at the NewsChannel 9 studios recently talking about crime, safety, and policing with Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy.

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This town hall is hosted by Josh Roe and Latricia Thomas.

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Josh Roe has a conversation with U.S. Senator from Georgia Jon Ossoff on legislation to improve military barracks, his investigation into military housing problems at Fort Eisenhower near Augusta, Georgia as well as other base housing at military installations, and why these military issues and others are so important right now.

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Army Veteran John Street was sent the Marshall Islands in the late 1970s.

Between 1948 and 1958 43 nuclear tests were performed there.

From 1977 to 1979, The Department of Energy, civilian contractors and United States service members were sent there to clean up the nuclear fall out from the testing. Army Veteran John street was there.

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They took some of the nuclear debris left scattered from the testing and put it in a crater left after a nuclear test called the Cactus test.

Then they covered the debris with a dome, a foot and a half thick concrete barrier, a nuclear sarcophagus. The tomb, as it is called by many, is a protective barrier but there are problems with that. There is no protective layer underneath the dome's contents and it has cracks but it is much more protection than the men who filled that crater had during the mission. 

John Street tells me what he witnessed in the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the late 70s.

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In this episode a conversation with Noel Durant. He is the Tennessee State Director of the Trust For Public Land. 

He is working to get more people in the state of Tennessee outdoors and find more access to parks and green spaces.

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The typical combat tour during the Vietnam War was 1 year. Robert Lee Rice was there for more than 3 years.

Mr. Rice arrived in Vietnam in late December of 1965. He fought for about six months before he was shot in the hip. Robert Rice told me, "my problems didn't start until after I got shot." Rice went to the hospital. When he got out he didn't go straight back to his unit, so he was considered AWOL. That was the first time he got into some trouble. After that Rice had 4 special court martials and was in the stockade four times before leaving Vietnam.

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It is Thanksgiving and one thing we are thankful for is all of the incredible people we met so far this year.

That includes Medal Of Honor recipient Leroy Petry.

Of the 40 million people who have served in the United States Military only 3,517 have received the Medal of Honor.

Only 66 are still living.

Back in September I had the opportunity to talk to one of those 66 living recipients, retired Army Master Sgt. Leroy Petry.

Tomorrow Town host Josh Roe talked to Leroy Petry about many topics including the need to honor and learn from our Vietnam Veterans while we still can.

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Tomorrow Town, Tennessee host Josh Roe served in the Marine Corps Reserves in the 1990's.

Josh tells stories of his service, as well as stories about his time talking to Medal Of Honor recipient Captain Larry Taylor and much more in this special episode.

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Saturday is Veterans Day.

This year in Chattanooga there have been several important veteran related stories.

Signal Mountain's Larry Taylor received the Medal of Honor. Taylor is the first Medal of Honor recipient from Southeast Tennessee since the 1950's.

Also, Chattanooga and Hamilton County are working on a project to house homeless veterans.

I talked to Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly about these stories and much more.

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On October 10th, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly announced a project designed to help the homeless veteran population.

The city was awarded at least $12.5 million to create a campus to house homeless veterans with resources on-site to support that community.

This project is a partnership  with the people behind the Heart of a Lion Foundation, non-profit Frontline Response, and others.

Tomorrow Town, Tennessee host Josh Roe talked to Jeff Shaw with Frontline Response about the project.

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A few weeks ago we released an episode of Tomorrow Town, Tennessee with the National Commander of the American Legion, Daniel Seehafer.

Well, on that same day host Josh Roe also spoke with the Tennessee Department Commander of the American Legion Lanny Culver.

In this episode Josh Roe talks to Lanny Culver about several issues including the veteran suicide crisis.

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