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Jane Pauley hosts this edition of “Sunday Morning” on this Memorial Day weekend. Conor Knighton says it will busy this summer at U.S. National Parks, so make sure to plan ahead. After a deadly school shooting in Texas this past week, Tracey Smith speaks with parents from another tragedy trying to end the bloodshed. And Steve Hartman discusses “Taps Across America,” a way to honor America’s fallen heroes.

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If you're planning on visiting Arches National Park this summer. Be sure to bring sunscreen plenty of water and your reservation for the first time ever, daytime tourists, must have a timed ticket just to get in the gate after years of record-setting crowds. Popular parks are insisting that visitors RSVP preserved and reserved ahead on Sunday morning.

All this past week, the nation's eyes have been on taxes were 19 children and two of their teachers were killed on Tuesday. Tracy Smith will tell us about the years long battle by the parents of another town gun violence put on the map to somehow bring an end to the bloodshed three mass shootings. Yet an AR 15 rifle three states the AR 15 style weapon one constant air 15 was used at Sandy Hook. Francine and David Wheeler's six-year-old son and 25 others were killed by a gunman with an AR 15 style rifle. What do we have to do to make sure no other mother and father ever go through this. He keeps us coming up on Sunday morning.

What they did and much more.

Besides, then Tracy takes us to a California town nearly wiped out by wildfires now hoping to be reborn. Lilia Luciano looks back with activist and author Angela Davis plus on this memorial day, Eve story from Steve Hartman and commentary from the man who heads the United States Air Force.

It's the final Sunday morning of the month. May 29, 2022 and will be back in a moment.

Last year, 92 million people visited one of our 63 national parks. Those numbers let's just say Connor Knight and reports.

What follows with reservations Arches National Park tomorrow day weekend is typically the busiest weekend of the year.

This is what Lester looked like parka to shut down the entrance several times to control the crowning all of the parking lots of the full. There is a bumper-to-bumper traffic all along the road so it just was a terrible experience for everybody involved and not good for the park resources to Caitlin. Thomas is the public affairs specialist for arches located in southern Utah over the past two decades, crowds have more than doubled at the park last year received a record-breaking 1.8 million visitors, which meant a lot of days felt like boreal day restaurant with hardship to close the gate hundred and 58 times now a lot and I could that's for hours at a time in the nearby town of Moab reservations for hotels and restaurants are hard to come by this year for the first time ever. The park itself is requiring reservations from April to October tourists hoping to access arches during peak hours need to have a ticket obtained via recreation.gov popular timeslots get booked up months in advance. So a timed entry.

The idea is that we take all of those visitors and we distribute them throughout the day and throughout the season so that we can hopefully mitigate the traffic and also improve those visitor experiences popular parks across the country are trying similar approaches Rocky Mountain in Colorado is requiring time degree reservations from now until October 10 in California. If somebody requires them until the end of September. Parks like Zion and Shenandoah certain hikes now have to be scheduled if you're planning on driving up Acadia's Cadillac Mountain to see the sunrise or weeding through the mountains on glacier national parks famous going to the sun road you're going to need to book in advance for decades. The national parks have done a really good job with wildlife management landscape management, ecological management and I think they're just gonna have to sort of turn their focus to people management Brian Jablonski is the CEO of the property and environment research Center studying a number of possible approaches to deal with the record-setting crowds. If you think about 50% of the park visitors are crowding into 6% of our national parks over the past decade are 63 national parks have received 34% more visitors were in uncharted territory when it comes to visitation, so there's a lot of room for experimentation and creativity that could be creating more shuttlebus systems like the one already in place at Zion national Park could mean taking some cues from the themepark world.

Create your past.

Using technology to show what sites of the park are less crowded and at some locations, it could mean reservations will many of the timed entry programs or trial runs for now they could become permanent. I think some of those parks are going to have to do the thing that might not be popular what will lose in that process of spontaneity. Think Americans like to be spontaneous, naturalist John Muir wrote the mountains are calling and I must go not the mountains are calling it. I must go at 2 PM on Wednesday because that's the only ticket I could get the job. The National Park Service is to protect the land for the people and it almost seems like the land is being protected from the people Moab developer Michael Lewis first fell in love with arches on a road trip. Decades ago I spontaneous the door pretty much want to the idea that a reservation system might vent others from doing the same right with those people are no longer spontaneous journey so yeah the fact that you derive here and couldn't get into arches. That's really disappointing to me so far. Under the new system that's Up to 10 to 15% of visitors.

Those tourists can always come back and visit outside of peak hours or dry the night before for one of several next-day tickets that are held back, but that might not work for everyone schedule this things more cars could be accommodated. The infrastructure of Arches National Park was designed in the 1950s they built the one entrance, 1 Entry Rd. The parking lots have grown you know a little bit over the years, but substantially nothing has changed in 70 years. So when I look at this.

It's like is the time to upgrade the park.

Of course, building new entrances and parking lots cost money and takes time is already a multibillion-dollar maintenance backlog parks plus the idea of continuing to pave paradise can be a tough sell here in the Park service where in the forever business. We protect these parks for perpetuity and we want to make sure that we leave them just as they are for future generations. Thomas and the team at arches have been encouraging visitors to show up without reservation to check out other nations cannot recommend a couple of other alternatives in our area. The story of overcrowded parks is mostly the story of a selected group of super popular parks. There are plenty of other under publicized places where you can still get away from it all. Only time will tell if these timed entry systems will stick around or expand other sites. What's the feedback been so far from the visitor. How fantastic it we have folks saying that this is the best trip to arches and they never had. If they've been here before. I think people are saying that there is an improved experience here and there, having just better connections with the landscape while visiting that sense of connection is difficult to quantify. For now I giving up some spontaneity visitors have been getting more solitude 23 weeks into the year. We've suffered through 27 shootings in classrooms grades K-12. Sadly, it's a safe gas. More could be on the way Tracy Smith tells us about a new way families in one town are fighting back the latest unspeakable act of gun violence in this country you will be Texas AR 15 rifle Buffalo New York ledge government purchase the 15 start weapon legally and of course Newtown, Connecticut. The air 15 was used. Sandy was using Aurora.

It was used in Clackamas and I go right now and byways myself without much of a check in the again all of it. Again, why why are we here if not to try to make sure that fewer schools and fewer communities go through what Sandy Hook is going through what you've all the is going through. Chris Murphy is from Connecticut, home to the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown I'm here on this for two day to literally get down on my hands and he's my colleagues find a path forward here Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas shortly after the school shooting in you VoLTE policies.

The Democrats are proposing they would stop this crime or any others are not focused on stopping crimes. Their solution is to try to take away your firearms.

Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy. Four months after the Sandy Hook shooting Francine Wheeler with her husband David made an impassioned plea. Sometimes I close my eyes and all I can remember is that awful day waiting at the Sandy Hook volunteer firehouse for the boy who would never come home. What were you hoping for. At that point I could have people and the thighs with me. Parents then maybe you would vote for the background check so that if you bought a gun at a gun show bot gone on the Internet and check we were fighting for Mr. McConnell no later that month, those gun law amendments were rejected by the Senate. The amendment is not agreed to the wheelers began looking for other ways to make change a lot about Mike that is that's awesome will never stop being parents. It's just that our parenting experiences. No frozen their son Ben was six years old when he was killed in the small classroom where our son was in school law enforcement recovered 80 casings 80 all from one AR 15 style rifle in total 154 rounds in less than five minutes. If I had been told when Ben was one that I would only get six years with what I have what I've done. It absolutely, absolutely unquestioningly us but what happens after that is part of his legacy right. What do we have to do to make sure no other mother and father ever go through this with the wheelers and eight other Sandy Hook families did at first seemed impossible.

They sued the gun maker Remington arms and in February they settled the lawsuit for $73 million.

It's the largest payout by a gun company to victims of a mass shooting well.

Steve will blame the gun company for sure. Earlier this month, the family of Andre McNeil was killed in the Buffalo shooting announced they too will sue Remington arms, which made the gun used at the supermarket.

So working that was desired for one of their lawyers first calls was to this man.

How much did you know about guns going into this case. If there is such a thing is less than zero. Nothing about guns nothing about gun law Josh cost Goff represented the Sandy Hook families. He says he approached the case like a puzzle.

First he studied everything he could about the AR 15 style rifle. What did you learn about that gun. What is an air 15. The weapon that themilitary considers the most effective, efficient, lethal weapon for soldiers.

The AR 15 was developed by Carmelite as a military rifle in the 1950s AR commonly thought to stand for assault rifle. In fact, stands for Carmelite rifle early in the 1960s, the Department of Defense field-tested for the faint of heart. But it is important to know that this is no ordinary firearm back wound caused the thoracic cavity to explode stomach room because the abdominal cavity to explode just ring from right to left, destroyed the thoracic cavity. She can't help but think about this 67 right in the late 60s semi automatic version was made for civilians and by the time of the Sandy Hook massacre Remington arms and their bushmaster brand had the most popular AR 15 style rifles on the market up until 2005 they sold about 100,000 units a year by 2012 beer the shooting to 2.1 million. The weapon itself didn't change. So what change the marketing and there was another change that may have emboldened gun manufacturers a little talked about law passed in 2005, known as plaque protection of lawful commerce in arms act. It's a way to protect gun companies from liability for shootings. It basically eliminates the common law rights, the people would otherwise have to bring a lawsuit against automobile industry or tobacco industry or pharmaceutical industry.

But the law contains a few exceptions, including one that allowed cost Goff to go after how the gun was market until our case.

I think people thought of it as a perfect and couldn't ever be overcome.

They engage in marketing that any what it would say was just beyond the pale moral and ethical cost. Goff says Remington not only adds like this that lonely young men. They highlighted the guns ability to inflict mass casualties. This one says forces of opposition bow down your single-handedly outnumbered. There is no noncriminal use for making your forces of opposition about in our neighborhoods in our towns. That's an assault. According to cost Goff. The key to the case was tying the Remington marketing to the 20-year-old shooter at the Sandy Hook elementary school go out and buy the guys mom about the gun and then just left it unlocked. That's the way marketing works. Marketing isn't targeting the purchaser targeting the user no better example. This inducement does not marketing their products to us.

But marketing it to our kids aggressively market their combat weapon to a suburban housewife aggressively marketed the combat weapon to her troublesome Hook shooter was a frequent player of the videogame call of duty cost Goff had played the game with his own son and saw something familiar in a crime scene photographs. This is the floor of the first grade classroom and it's 230 round magazines duct taped together, correct from call of duty with this look like I knew what the purpose was in the purpose when you're playing the game. It allowed for almost 0 downtime to political change.

Max signifier 30 shots 60 people with this 30 with almost no simulated gun in call of duty was Remington bushmaster ACR cost. Goff says Remington arms license the AR 15 style gun for the videogame. It was part of the gun companies marketing plan.

This allowed children and teenagers to experience what it was like to use the combat weapon. You could feel the vibrations of the controller for this to actually understand how weapon worker fell you have to go to the gun range and no gun sellers do not have a child come in and just out an AR 15, but they don't have to anymore so I can't be sitting on his couch feeling what AR 15 felt like to shoot their kid sitting on the couch right now doing executive, like many parents, David and Francine Wheeler hadn't seen any of the Remington marketing until this case, you gotta be kidding me.

Unbelievable. My first thought was, do you think this is a game. My son is gone. I legal system has given some justice today Josh cost Goff says the settlement $73 million will be distributed among the nine plaintiff families and Remington's internal memos also turned over in the agreement will be released to the public. What will these documents show.

It'll just teach us a lesson that we've all learned, which is that greed kills. He says the case is about corporate misconduct, not politics. This company just crossed the line and it exposes all of us to risk shooter at Sandy Hook didn't line up children. Gun owners in children of non-hunters are Democrats and Republicans shot everybody gun industry representatives argue the Remington suit is unusual because it was settled after Remington went bankrupt in a statement, the National shooting sports foundation firearm trade association said the settlement orchestrated by insurance companies has no impact on the strength and efficacy of plaque that which remains the law of the land plaque. I will continue to block baseless lawsuits that attempt to blame lawful industry companies for the criminal acts of third parties. When people say how do you live I say will how do I not live Francine and David Wheeler have always said they wanted to save other families going through with. They have the events of recent weeks show their lawsuit hasn't stopped mass shootings, but they say it's a start. We hope that this will make changes in the future. I have hope. I always have. I never given up hope.

Otherwise I probably would've never left my bad and you're still hopeful grief. I have both at the same time every day that I have hope.

Now a tale of paradise lost. You may recall, the wildfire that all but destroyed paradise California in 2018, slowly building back, but this time Ben Tracy shows us with wildfires in mind the room to paradise.

You can see signs of a comeback want to hear what that sounds like you all you have to do is visit the hardware store in town is almost always, Mike Peterson manages these Ace Hardware store somehow survived the worst fire in California history.

But like most people here Peterson lost his home. A year ago. These three homes here weren't there. Now he looks out of his neighborhood. He sees all the skeptics being proven wrong and I think a lot of people have their doubts about how many people would rebuild its nice to see the progress research rebuilding this town. This is in the foothills of this year, with Nevada for from certain after paradise was lost to the Inferno, known as the campfire the 2018 blaze killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 20,000 homes and businesses. So the old house sat here Peterson is not only rebuilding he's building something. He hopes will survive any future fires for liquor and worry less about your home. Yes, my insurance company loves it. He and his wife are about to move into this two-bedroom house that looks a bit like a modern barn.

They like the architecture, but the real selling point is that it's built not to burn its noncombustible product that you can't really light on fire see is the owner of design horizons, a company building what he calls the Q cabin short for Quonset hut. It takes its name from wanted point a naval facility in Rhode Island where these corrugated metal roofed buildings were first made during World War II.

Sneed says today's version costs about the same as a house built with conventional two by fours so none of this convert correct so we would have a noncombustible siding here.

Then we got our noncombustible sheathing or noncombustible structure. So you would have to get through all of these noncombustible layers before you got signed to see most homes ignited wild buyers because embers get into window frames were in between roof shingles with the Q cabin those entry points don't exist. And so I understand why you won't call this fireproof because you can never guarantee that but this is about as close as this is about as close as you can get. Of course getting too close to nature use part of the problem communities like Paradise are known as the wildland urban interface where the great outdoors, collides with someone's front only 50 million US homes are now in these areas are prone to wildfires when you see all of the natural disasters, especially a state like this is facing and what we know is coming. As climate change accelerates. Is this the future of homebuilding, noncombustible housing is the future. The campfire left behind more than burn trees and empty lots. It also transformed a lot of the people here. I think people just let go there. There need to control because we all learned that there is no such thing so exciting. When Nordman is president of paradise Lutheran Church. It's rebuilding to a four Plex Q cabin will replace the Parsonage building that once housed their pastor and was lost in the fire.

Given what you've gone through what is it like for people to see something being built out there. Well, it isn't just something it's something like this were so excited about because it's all good, new and beautiful and fire resistant, which is most people's minds really happening everybody so excited they plead to rented out to four families to generate income for the church which lost nearly half its members. After the fire.

But now people are flooding back making paradise. The fastest growing city in California. Nobody was here gave this is paradise rather nobody can. There's a spirit in this town with her before the fire.

And that's here now and never went away. Take out with preacher Garrett this week. Stephen law ally of Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to set races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. Georgia is right up there, but New Hampshire's products to New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take out with major Garrett on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts high podcast. Drew Barrymore all my goodness, I want to tell you about our new shell business podcast and each episode mean a weekly, gastric and other quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist because well I and maybe you do too. From the newest interior design trend Barbie car to the right and wrong way to wash her arm also working to get in the things that you just kind of well probably not able to do in daytime television. So watch out.

Tristan is ever you get your podcasts. It's a good news on the got Hartman with Memorial Day tradition that hits all the right notes Monday at precisely 3 o'clock your local time call so where will you ask Americans to set aside their differences only 24 visions of taps we originally started tabs across the move focus away from the hamburgers and hotdogs back to the real purpose of Memorial Day by the thousands. Musicians have answered our call, six-year-old Paul surprise Arizona playing first because I love our country so there's no way I could say no brothers of New Castle, Delaware to serve in the Army. Our great-grandfather are grandfather and Eagle Scout was returning lives. You've all be Texas so he'll be playing with the new purpose deeply.

Suddenly, Sir playing taxes least I can do the reasons they play are as varied as the landscapes on which they stand. Some performers while others like Lori William Moriarty, New Mexico play for no at least not apparent. I don't think it matters where you play because those who need to hear it soon point for those above absolutely the audience are omnipresent past with this coast-to-coast concert course. It's also this week, especially this 24 note reminder that there are still some things we calls and one thing after every mass shooting. Sadly, it seems the answer is there is no answer. No way to stop the violence. Six years ago sets down travel to one country that actually seems to have found a way we decided it was worth a second look. It said that when you lose your parents, you lose your past.

When you lose your child shall future Carolyn Lawton flung herself on top of her daughter.

When a gunman started shooting but it was not enough to save Sarah's life. She was 15 she just 1015 one American is among the injured and what is being described as the worst massacre this century alone gunman with a high-powered shooting in a caf in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur happened 26 years ago but telling the story.

Decades later, still aches Lawton shake. What's it like being in a mass shooting. It's beyond frightening. It's wanting and for every bullet fired a life gone and banged face another life gone and banged phase another life gone and banging and when he's gonna be my 10 Lawton we shot that claim may lay on the stretcher and did not know for hours. Her daughter had died. This is what's left of that caf were the gunmen started shooting in the end. 35 people were killed and it rocked Australia it came just six weeks after a new prime minister had been elected as a result, if I don't use the authority of this newly acquired office to do something these strident people are entitled to think with bike not up to much as to the question of gun control laws. The show then Prime Minister John Howard, a conservative politician and close friend of George W. Bush pushed through sweeping gun control legislation, just 12 days after the massacre that the hottest things to do in politics often involve taking why rock and privileges from your own supporters tough new laws banned the sale and importation of all automatic and semiautomatic rifles and shotguns forced people to present a legitimate reason and wait 28 days to buy a firearm, and perhaps most significantly, called for a massive mandatory gun buyback really is government confiscated and destroyed nearly 700,000 firearms, reducing the number of gun owning households by half use inside of me you bought itemized human right by tying away my gun. Would you please understand the greatest human audible is to live this life life without fear of random consider this, if we tally public mass shootings live killed four or more people in the United States.

There have been well over 100. Since the Port Arthur tragedy Australia there has been just 126 years since their gun laws were passed plus gun homicides decreased by 60%. It is incontestable gun related homicides for quite significantly in condition it's clutching at straws don't have like John's former Sen. David Lyon Helm left Howard's political party in protest over the strict gun laws. He insists the little effect, but could've been something about keeping firearms out of the hands of people with different violent potential, but instead all far might apply the promise. I don't think there's any relationship between the availability of guns and the level of violence and critics who say you can't say that these changes in gun deaths happen because of this legislation will I can say that because all the surveys indicated the number of deaths from mass shootings gun related homicides born gun related suicide is full and that evidence or we expect of the believer that was all magically got to happen, this one truck at the pistols on the rifle ammunition on the ruffled bulk lawyer and winemaker Greg Melick showed us where he locks up his weapons, weapons and hate their missions and walked several years locking up guns and ammunition in separate safes is another regulation as our surprise inspections by police, Melick had to part with some of his prized guns in the buyback company firearms used alone when you get off the question should've checked out the answer.

About two dozen Mr. Browning nonbillable which uses for sport hunting and shooting pests on his vineyard by she from here down as racially Melick sees gun ownership, not as a right but a privilege to be very uncomfortable going back to what was before when going really what quite frankly affluence approach use American?

It just was a heavily ridiculous argument will people carry guns like to defend themselves. But this is being said by a gun owner you someone who shoots for sport five.

A genuine reason from Tasmania to Sydney to Carolyn Lawton's living room. The bullet went into my into my scapula.

We kept asking if there were lessons for the US in all of this finalized comment. My question is, how is it going back to all of you life is short: every one of us somebody's child and when we see what's happening hot plates for more than half a century. Her revolutionary ideas spark both help and controversy. Lilia Luciano is in conversation with Angela Davis years.

She's recognizably wide as the feast of Lucian. How does the woman Prof. Angela Davis relate to those posters. I felt really uncomfortable and that is because I think I was expecting to find myself in those images. 78. Angela Davis has come to terms with her in each. Now I look at them and I see all of the millions of people who came together to participate in a struggle and the threat of fascism century, Angela Davis has been sounding alarms going off today out love being loving to be radical that radicalism can be traced to her upbringing in Birmingham, Alabama grew up in a world that was entirely organized according to the dictates of white supremacy.

Grabbing a street that was held because of the amount of terrorist bombings. When black families meant into that community. My very first memories of the sounds of dynamite and also the fear of watching my father bring his gun when we thought that the Ku Klux Klan might be assaulting our home. Davis was a Phi Beta Kappa Boston. She did graduate work in Germany.

20 6D. This was a professor of philosophy UCLA. She joined the Black Panther party in the Communist Party and brought me here a target of California Gov. Ronald Reagan said that it was.

There was the very first press conference I held in the immediate aftermath of my firing UCLA.

I think my eyes were wide open and my knees were shaking under the table and today people look at that and they say all you was so much more militant was just afraid.

Gun fire came from automatic rifles, shotguns and pistols leader letting courthouse siege brought by detention.

She wasn't here to free the so-called brothers meets accused of killing a prison guard ended in a shoot out what it will judge Haley with two of the inmates were dead used in the attack were traced to Davis. She said she had bought them for her security team after getting death threats and she went into hiding and why choice of my comrades and friends and I were aware ways in which the people who were trying to turn themselves into the police had been killed behind, hotel. She was put at times in solitary confinement testers. She was extradited to California. The court room turned and gave a Black power salute gallery was charged with conspiracy, kidnapping and murder of Ms. Davis shouting we Angela. They pledged to be here as long as she is and was a long time coming for 13 hours all white jury's verdict on June 4, 1972. Attention was electric waiting for the clerk to read the verdicts first charged with murder not guilty on all counts and was not until that moment that I realized that I had a future ahead of me for the US as well as the Eastern Bloc Soviet Union very clear that although I may no longer be a coming this with a C.

I remain a communist with a small city historical experiments necessarily produce what we want them to 16 months in jail will Davis commit, come to think about my incarceration as a gift, witnessing the ways in which other women in prison were being treated. That really consolidated what I think. It's been my vocation. She has since dedicated her life to the issue of prisons not performing them but abolishing them. There are words like defined or abolished at the same time that they elevator because they also create such division, why not advocate for reform really try to learn from history. So if someone make the argument that evolution is too strong a term I would remind people that during the year of slavery there with those who make the very same argument states has 4% of the worlds population 20% of the world's prisoners 38% of the US prison population is black. What does a world post prison life.

My question would be what would a world have to look like in order not to require the persistent interventions of police and imprisoned. We need better education, we would need a better healthcare system. We went world so evolution urges us to expand and make more capacious very vision Angela Davis is still writing, still teaching after 60 years of fighting the same fights. The more things change the more causes Angela still energize.

There are so many issues that you thought about current fighting.

You know change is possible without hope. No movement is possible without the need long on this Memorial Day weekend some thoughts from the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Gen. Charles Brown. This is about me real day is about just anyone already knows when you give their lives for our nation and its ideals so we can spend each day.

We love the ultimate measure of freedom for 75 years now, every conflict the country is is not been without sacrifice, I experience the pain of loss for the first time my military career. My friend Lieut. Josh Levin died in an aircraft accident or the Philippines together a consignor base, Republic of Korea and Josh are planning to attend my wedding. The following year. This is a familiar pain for so many early this month I met with mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters whose loved ones died in service to our nation. I'm forever grateful to those who gave their lives to their families will always feel the pain of loss watcher for the Pfizer government representing all walks of life from all across this great nation.

Servicemembers raise the right hand and taken the oath of office or the oath of enlistment take solace in their selfless service flicked in the Bible verse. So I sent Google for us that I said here I am, send me each morning my way to the Pentagon. I drive past Arlington national Cemetery. Small stone markers represent those who wore the uniform said send me its daily or moderate.

Memorial Day is about and inspires me to work harder and Sherman have what they need to start the freedoms we all enjoy God bless thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning progress and crazy to the point is we people in the best way to protect people final season Millstream