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Narrative, especially, you know, if states don't even know how many markers there are or where they're located. It's very difficult to change markers, to take down these old stories. I mean, some of them are 50 years old. Some are a 100 years old. It's hard to even figure out who owns them, who owns the land that the marker sits on. We talked to officials in Minnesota, and they told us that there were more than a 1000 markers in their state, and they were able to track down 206 that the State Historical Society either paid for or helped put up. So they drove out to all of them. And when they got out there, they found that every single one of these markers had a problem from either grammar issues to offensive language. Okay. Well, that doesn't bode well for the kinds of markers that are out there in all these other states. That's right. And meanwhile, 3 states, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, recently passed laws that say no one can take down any historical marker, no matter how old, wrong, misguided, confusing, or offensive that it might be. So it it seems to be an issue where many states are stuck with the markers they have, and in other cases, they're only telling one perspective. Yeah. And that's reminding me actually of something that Theo Moore in Montgomery said as we were wrapping up. He told me that he tried to read most of the state markers as part of the job, and he said lately that something's been bothering him. All these cities named after Creek Native Americans, Wetumpka, Tuskegee, Northasauga, Lojapoka, Opelika, Tuscaloosa, that's all Native American. Right? Where where you know, where's their markers? Is he right? I mean, are there markers, talking about Native Americans and their history and heritage? I mean, yeah. We found more than 15,000 markers across the country that mention Native Americans. But what we found is that the history on them often isn't
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01.com. For days, the international community urged restraint after Iran attacked Israel earlier this week, they warned a military response could lead to an all out regional war. But overnight, it appeared Israel had responded. Iran said it shot down, quote, in unknown object. And at this hour, what exactly happened is unclear. NPR's Rob Schmidt joins us now from Tel Aviv to parcel this out. Good morning, Rob. Good morning. So I know that we're learning more every hour, and there's a lot we still need to understand and learn, but at this point, what can we say about what happened overnight? Well, we know that a senior US military official told NPR that Israel launched missiles at Iran overnight, but there's no evidence seen yet that confirms this. NPR has reached out to Israel's military and prime minister's office for Comet. But as of yet, they haven't responded. Sources in Iran, however, paint a slightly different picture around state news agency, Irina, reported this morning that according to an Iranian brigadier general, Meehan Dosed, loud booms were heard east of the city of Isfahan where the sounds of Iranian air defense is intercepting what he called an unknown object And there were also no signs of casualties or damage to report he reported. We've seen reports from other state media outlets of Iranian air defense shooting down drones flying over his fahan, but we've not been able to confirm these reports. But for context here, Layla, this is apparently the latest escalation. In what has been a tense tit for tat that began when an airstrike, which around blamed on Israel killed 2 Iranian commanders in the country's embassy, compound in Syria, April 1st, which was then followed by an unprecedented missile and drone attack that Iran launched on Israel last weekend. Which was largely intercepted in cause of the damage. Okay. You mentioned Israel's government has yet to weigh in on this incident, but what's been the reaction in the region this morning? Well, here in in Israel, it's been fairly muted. Commercial flights continue in and out of Israel's largest airport. And the country's home front command system that's responsible for phishing threat alerts to civilian
