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On this Memorial Day weekend. We remember all who have died in military service to our country, banning as long made her home in the movies. Now, after a long absence. She's back on Broadway in talking with Serena also for decades leading lady screen and off star Warren Beatty takes in the beginning when you say to them. Oh, what can I say in my 27 years.

We have four children that service is all that later on Sunday morning. I just about every stature you see on a pedestal in our country statue of a man they say light has found some women who want to change that walk through New York City's Central Park and it's hard to miss all the statues of all these men so wrong with this picture. How can you have statues of men everywhere and the only statues of women are Mother Goose, Alice in Wonderland we needed real women breaking Ron's ceiling nationwide push to put more women on pedestals later this Sunday morning and watch us on Iraq war veteran perform music from the heart. Steve Hartman salutes a very special school bus driver and more coming up when our Sunday morning podcast continues now page from our Sunday morning on May 26, 1897, 122 years ago today day to chill the blind was the day the Irish author Bram Stoker published his novel Dracula loosely based on the sinister Transylvanian legend figure glad the inhaler Dracula told the story of a human vampire drives for centuries by feasting on blood. Stoker never enjoyed much commercial success from his book in 1931 made it as a motion picture with Gary and actor Ella Lugosi in the title role with his cloak mesmerizing stair and of course, that accent will Dracula's exploits became the stuff of movie legend drinking wine shopping. It's time the movie may Dracula a fixture of popular culture, inspiring literally dozens and TV vampire dramas over the years, like the legendary figure on which is based Count Dracula and his vampire ill seem destined to end your account because I pleasing you know like missing from parks and landmarks all across America. Can you guess what it is.

Maybe faith say lay can help. If you are among the millions of visitors to New York City's Central each year seen the statues that dot the landscape. Shakespeare, Alexander Hamilton, Christopher, so missing how can you have statues of men everywhere and the only statues of women are Mother Goose, Alice in Wonderland we needed real women.

That's right, there are 22 statues of men and one dog who is, you guessed it, mail the women who have played such a vital part of history are invisible until now, Pam Elam and Colleen Jenkins run the monumental women campaign their goal to erect a monument in Central Park honoring women's suffrage pioneers Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and their efforts haven't exactly been a walk in the park. They said immediately know there will be no new statues in Central Park at the historical collection know we persisted. Then they said we'll can you pick another Park and do you really want to statue. How about a nice guard. We persisted to have two powerful women in a powerful movement, represented here that's important. Colleen Jenkins, who we should mention is the great great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton says breaking the bronze ceiling isn't easy considering this when a monument depicting suffragists was donated to the United States Congress in 1921. It's torture journey became something of a metaphor for the battle for equal representation. The gift was moved into the rotunda, but very shortly thereafter moved into the crypt. The land of the dead.

In fact, this statue was moved one day after it was unveiled and remained beneath the capital until 1997 when it was finally returned to the rotunda. What say about the way women have been viewed that this monument was put crypt for years. It's the wrong message. One needs to see role models and inspiration in order to understand where we came from, but also what our basic values are. They will dictate where were going to and if you think the lack of statues honoring women is a rarity.

Think again nationwide. There are more than 5000 outdoor statues of people of all sorts, but estimates show fewer than 400 of them are of women, of course, the debate over our public monuments is becoming a familiar one. We've seen those protests over statues of Confederate figures as some of those statues are coming down, Jenkins says it's time to put in more women on pedestal statues are symbols.

And, furthermore, it's my money your money. Our tax dollars that are building those monuments a breathe life into history and because of the cost and mass of five. They say this person is really important. Psychologist Lynette long heads the group equal visibility everywhere, and she says it's about a lot more than statues. One day for my son.

How would you feel if you looked at every statue was a woman in on all the coins.

It was woman and you walk down the street and all the streets are named after women and holiday national holidays.

There's not a single holiday name. There is like I get it.

How do you get people to care that you have to make them believe it hurting or hurting their children and it is 80% of communications nonverbal so you can tell girls and I hear it all the time you can be whatever you want to be.

But what if they see they see you can't. Chicago is taking steps to change that earlier this year Street was renamed Ida B Wells civil rights activist who documented lynchings in 1892 have an African-American woman honored in such a high profile way in such a large city just makes me feel we've arrived at least and Ida B Wells great-granddaughter Michelle Doster is raising money to erect a monument honoring Wells but Dexter is new statues like the one proposed for Central Park emerge. It's important to take off our rose-colored glasses. These women were suffragists and they believed in the women's right to vote, but I didn't believe in black women's right to vote in it, and believing like men's right tell the whole story we do that, I think there could be a plaque that's put near the statue or on the base of the statue or something. It just kinda gives like an ashtray caveat, you know.

Which brings us back to Central Park and the new monument of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, what will it look like let's just say it's still a work in progress. Sculptor Meredith Bergman. When people see these two women. I want them to feel inspired and encouraged to fight for what they believe is right. The project has already inspired a small army with big ideas, Girl Scouts who have raise money and awareness that one day there'll be a 50-50 ratio recognition for doing what they done so, so many great things. This statue will be unveiled in August of next year which marks the centennial of women gaining the right to vote, change chiseled one statue at a time, but there's still a long way to go. Back in Washington. Michelle Cohen curates the collection at statuary Hall in the nation's capital, where each state gets to designate two statues to represented additive hundred statues today.

We had nine that commemorate women but now Kansas plans to replace one of its statues with attribute to a certain aviator girl Emily Ehrhardt is in the pipeline. We hope will see her soon and we have to say to center angles. It's not you know its history charged with bringing the pioneering aviator back to life. Brothers George and Mark Lundeen.

We wanted to configure a strong woman which she was soon. Amelia Ehrhardt will take her place alongside all those men you might say history is looking up. Talk about special delivery. State Department has been tracking a school bus driver in a class by himself see why someone might hate school bus driver hours whether sours of responsibility combined with the Arabs eyes in the back of the less Chris Jenkins logs delivering these little ones Lake Highlands Elementary in Dallas, Texas. Emily Groening is the principal is way beyond that outline responsibilities and duties of a bus driver like a family, to remove the microbrewery. I will wall to establish community or should he starts by giving everyone responsibility for the wonderful result of the well flowchart to the administrative assistant everyone working together to build a yellow bus will occur about his drug everybody art moved to the show his love and understand throughout the year below each gift personally selected with that child. This gravitational force will from a book she made him hope and Ms. Fisher is barley people writing over the years.

He is bought these kids bikes backpacks handed out cards on birthdays and even turkeys at Thanksgiving. You spent thousands out of his own pocket and yet if you ask the kids what they like most about Curtis gifts, evenly cares about us is really kind and how was you go is 1/5 grader means a lot. Says the bus ride is often the best part of my mom got divorced when I was only four, he's the father that I always wanted.

In some ways I just I wish I could of been like that we make mistakes sometimes thinking certain jobs are more important than others.

Curtis Jenkins made his job and in doing so, created his own so that with roles in movies such as the women and that Bening has never failed to demonstrate her range and versatility talents now on full view in her. Tony nominated role on Broadway with Serena all chill we pay her a visit.

For 30 years.*Annette Benning has always stood out the way he was staring at me. I thought you asked me for something a little more exciting is your imagination is. Let me know when you're finished for Oscar nomination. Along the way, I've been asked characters great stories with great writing and great writing usually involves laws just be honest with me okay to make me feel crazier than I feel right now. It's not about playing people who are strong.

It's about trying to find the people I woke up so funny and she's this time on Broadway Arthur Miller.

All my sons race that right. This is Sunday morning.

It's now sunny and beautiful for Benning being on stage has been a kind of homecoming like families from the Midwest. I was born in Kansas and course many of my relatives in Iowa had it's very this very backyard she play have been nominated for Tony's family.

I'm simply telling you I have no right to think that in 1947. All my sons centers on the Keller family whose two sons were in World War II. After one pilot was reported missing their mom can't except possibility could be dead lover lover. That's the pleasure we have as actors we get to love the characters because we don't have to judge the Benning says this is a role she always wanted to play in part because the story mirrors events in her own history. My mom's family had two sons that went to the war. My uncle Russell and my uncle Roy both enlisted after Pearl Harbor. They were both in their late 20s. Roy became a Marine Russell pilot his sap plane crash from mechanical failure. The body of his copilot was found that my uncle Russell's body was never found. So there's a lot of fun personal connection in my family to the world that Arthur Miller was writing about and she said she draws on election night certain catharsis when you relive what Kate goes through every night. Are you working through the theory that that maybe if you're working in the right way.

It is a cathartic experience. So afterwards you still feel unburdened her first and only other time on Broadway was in 1987's coastal disturbances. She earned a Tony nomination, then to and soon backend seems like the flow of great opportunities and good choices and not the kinda classic bumpy road to Hollywood shoe crew to discover on his wedding night, if he didn't get the first. I was lucky and I also didn't start doing movies till I was almost 30, so I had done. I wasn't a kid actor and heartthrob on the film Bugsy got nothing but trouble on the line for me to get married in 1992 long time. How does one make a marriage work for 27 years. Well I think mutual respect and that we very much want the same things is very tolerant of living with me and you of him right. I would say skeptics in the beginning you say to them. Oh, what can I say we've been married 27 years. We have four children that services all the and she says together they created the life she dreamed of. I always wanted children from when I was really little like a little girl seven or eight years old and my children who are now adults are so interesting in there and the stage of their lives.

Are they getting their education and their working in their falling in love. It's it's it's also very cool stage of parenting that I'm really enjoying prefers to let her kids for themselves.

For instance, her oldest Stephen is outspoken as an advocate in the transgender community policing. Other mom's wanting to help their children find themselves being exactly what they feel they are well it's what we all wanted to his parents and I think that the tricky part is, is that your kids have to go through difficulties and pain and I didn't even know it. But there was a part of me that thought if I got it right. I could maybe parent my kids in such a way that they wouldn't have to experience right but you learn is how powerless you have a lot you can do to help and love your kids and of course you do anything you can to support and let them go through with the through and they have a right to do that and there's there's there's a dignity to that as your children move on. She says 80 and herself like old times daily. What time just for each other and for work and I can come into this plan. York South's economy that yes, it is been incredibly supportive and enthusiastic. The only one you understand me now, Dick's audience is the Tony awards nominating committee raving about that.

Bening my sons lose focus on the work in Iraq war veteran is coping with his experience by creating music straight from the heart, Knighton has his story. The veteran Michael Trotter Junior is in his wife, Tonya was the duo entry was understandably terrified.

I was afraid I wanted because I hope that that fear was the artist and you sound up by driver dropped out of high school at 16, 19, became a father enlisted in the Army as a way to support his daughter will fall like while I have really made the mother of all mistakes, then you meet the boys and the gals and if you're lucky you meet your missing family members you commit one of Trotter's commanding officers, Capt. Robert Sheetz Junior could tell that he was struggling. She turned Trotter like music suggested Trotter learn to play piano discovered in the palace or their unit was based. He's like whenever you're here on your free time come here and find whole Trotter practiced regularly as thoughts never far from the piano's former owner had been owned by us same it off all of her interest of the was learning on an instrument own in touch by such tyrannical hands and is now serving me for peaceful healing me peace doesn't last for long war zone on May 30, 2004 Capt. Robert sheets Junior was killed by an IED that so often glorious. It was fall. Trotter wrote a song for Capt. Sheetz's real service commanding officers saw how the performance inspired, Trotter says they saw an opportunity though. Well, off the powers that be decided that is what I would do.

I would literally write songs about fallen for tomorrow's volleyball is after almost 2 years in Iraq was far too many Orioles try to return to continue to write Tonya Blunt at a music festival had an early breakfast better in the film Sr. act two with Lauren Hill just lost this S-4 that want to be able to give the audience the fire not just inhabiting but when she met Michael heard him perform sparks flew. What was it about the songs that spoke honest. That's the thing that I love about Michael is that he's honest, that's not something you can make up on stage to start working on songs together, married Mike was having trouble adjusting to civilian life. One Fourth of July uses up under the fireworks was didn't tell me it happened again and set him down. Is that whatever is going on. I really want to know.

Tony insisted that Michael go to a veterans hospital they told him that he had PTSD and we would homeless that you are a wounded warrior shot up said that doesn't mean you're not psychological letters encouraged Michael to play her some of the songs that he'd written while he was in Iraq though all she is. That was the entry point to allowing me to know what was going on through the songwriting so I started to hear the songs and listen to the lyrics and it was letting me in. Without him sitting down here his old army buddy each other meets such a positive.

Michael just remembers well we hope that in a way that since spirits boastful in a chair on this Memorial Day weekend some thoughts on the meaning of citizenship from 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley's new book is entitled truth worth telling how many stores in the American flag 50 you say I'm not so sure if there were 50 citizens of liberal states and conservative states would join in common purpose on the blue field, which is, after all, called the union.

Instead, it seems we are recklessly talking up the thread that holds us together today.

Liberals and conservatives barricade themselves in digital sugar drills were some media with calculated bias sure the reviewers that what they already believe is correct.

If we wall ourselves and castles of conforming information for your new Cold War, this time a cold civil war given the stranger. Why do both parties promote almost nothing but divisive standards because it is so much easier than health insurance for immigration reform taking on actual challengers would require work and listening and fought and union whose fault is this not the politicians really the Constitution was written on the premise that we the people would be hard working citizens, but by and large we don't study the issues politicians lie because we don't know the facts, but dangle shiny new scandals because we allow ourselves to be mesmerized were asked to vote in federal elections once every two years and have focus. Cannot find the time we become too lazy in mind and body to support a democracy. I don't see that in the Americans I've witnessed devotion to all of our stores among the firefighters who sacrifice themselves at the World Trade Center and Air Force nurse in Iraq who opened her own veins to give blood to a daunting Marine Sandy Hook was preventable. The mothers and fathers of Sandy Hook who dedicated their lives to preventing the kind of mass shooting that took their children, which required the rest of the small sacrifice to keep democracy vibrant and alive. United we stand as a familiar aspiration but divided we stand is the secret of America with all of our diversity in all of our languages, we should agree on one big idea. We are all woven into the tapestry of stars it's time to see that not right, but is a privilege that each of us is willing to go with minds that are skeptical but open and hands ready to work and willing to embrace the right of course there are 50 stores the flag we say we are very iconic, how many stores in your flag.

I'm Jane Pauley. Thank you for listening and please join us again next Sunday morning with Richard Gere this week. Stephen Long live Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to set reasons you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia.

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