jet line are. a satellite photo released by france showed objects in the water. it is giving crews some height, but there has been no credible sighting of debris after two weeks of searching. >> those are the headlines i'll be back at 2am eastern, but "america tonight" starts now. bulletin good evening. walk into a nursing home in florida. there is a good chance you may see some very young, vulnerable residents there. more than 100 medically fragile children riv in long-term care and has prompted at a time the government suing the state

charging kids' civil rights are being violated. america tonight correspondent sheila mcviccer takes us inside one of these nursing homes and inside one parent's struggle to bring his son home. this is hidden camera video from inside a florida nursing home . children in wheelchairs parked at a place called kids' corner near fort lauderdale? >> it's more like a facility of stora storage, of storing the kids. >> marcella martinez knows something about kids' corner. his son, andrew, has lived there for more than a year. andrew martinez was an outgoing high school senior. his goal was to become a firefighter when a freak incident changed his life. >> we are on our way to meet andrew martinez. he is nearly 21, just 10 days after his 18th birthday, he had a cardiac arrest and oxygen

deprivation to his brain. >> could you, if you had help, care for him at home? could he be at home with you? love. >> martinez was never told he could have in-home care for his son. since he left the hospital, andrew has only delivered in nursing homes. the state of florida has pushed parents like martinez to send their children to nursing homes like this one, according to a u.s. justice department investigation. the nursing home cares for patients old and young, geriatric and pediatric. this was the first of our three trips inside with martinez. >> what do you think his day is like when you do not come to see him? what does he do? >> not much of nothing because when i show up there, there is no interaction. >> with other people? >> yes. >> or with staff? >> yes. with staff, there is nobody there to really care to him. there is no -- it's more

of a -- more of a system, okay. 12:00 o'clock. feed him. give him his meds. that's it. you know, done deal. >> the deal on this day, kids in the hallway, some desperate for attention. none of the kids doing anything. no activities, not even a toy in their hands. the calendar at kids' corner calls it chini"chillin'." >> is that the way those kids are treated? >> on the average, that's basically t it's nothing new. finding my son stuck in between a door. how is that facility helping them? sticking them between a door. oh, yeah. but that's the reality i have to deal with.

it's hard. >> other families told us they had seen the same thing, children neglected for hours, parked in the hallway, ignored. >> the reality federal inspectors have found at kids' corner: rusty cribs, heavily soiled floors, walls and counters, furniture torn and in disrepair, loose handrails,dirt showers and possibly, most alarming of all, only one registered nurse scheduled on the night shift to the care for 59 medically fragile children. federal standards call for at least two. 11-year-old diante schuller is a quad aretetraplegic. he spent more than a year at kids' corner, and while he was there, he endured bed stores and two broken legs. >> how was it there? >> terrible. >> why was it terrible ?

>> nasty food. some of the nurses are rough. >> some? >> some of the cnas are rough. >> rough? what way? >> when they change you, they turn you hard and everything. you. >> yeah. >> cnas are certified nurse assistants. like mars ella martinez, the schullers didn't think they state. >> we were told that the government cutback on nursing care where we wouldn't get it full-time. so, that was an option. >> i am about to party. yeah. it's mine. it's mine. >> diante's grandmother tried on to move her out of kids' corner. >> they didn't want her to leave, you know. train. >> the schullers finally found a lawyer who would help. >> it was like he was our angel

of mercy because he helped us get my grandson out of there. >> the schullers' angel of mercies, matt dietz. he is an out spoken in spokesperson for the disabled. he is suing to force the state to pay for in-home care. a lawsuit joined by the federal department of justice's civil rights division. >> nursing homes are not an appropriate place for any child. i mean a child should be with their family. >> isn't it more expensive for the state to keep kids in nursing homes? >> the state has acknowledged that it is 20% more expensive to have a child in a nursing home than it is to have a child in their own home. so, it ends up costing the state almost 250 to $300,000 a year. >> so this sounds like a no-brainer. why don't they do it? >> the nursing homes it's a financial incementive to have those children at nursing homes. it's an annuity. >> i love you. >> the state pays nursing homes

up to $550 a day for children: twice as much as for elderly patients and 20% more than full-time nursing care at home. the federal lawsuit says the state has violated the civil rights of these children by unnecessarily segregating and isolating them in nursing homes away from family sa and community. marcel a martinez wishes his son, andrew wasn't so isolated. his son is more than an hour aw away, and visiting is difficult. >> you know, i am just like your average joe. you know, i have my bills to pay. i have kids to raise. and unfortunately, you know... >> and you've got andrew. >> yes. >> view parents are prepared to care alone for a child who has suffered a catastrophic illness or injury. these kids as you see need nursing homes sometimes around the clock. in flat, parents say the state has pushed them to send their

kids to nursing homes leaving them adrift, sometimes hours away from home. we return to sheila mcvickers' investigation and one teenager's tragic trip to a nursing home. >> they took her out of my arms and they kill her.

ask. >> she was without footed, without letting me go with her to assist her with her medicines, issue her medicines, without water. >> marie was supposed to take her seizure medications three times a day. an investigation concluded she did not receive these medications in the ambulance or at the miami nursing home. >> she wasn't given the medication that she needed in order to stay alive. >> at 5:45 the next morning,

marie's heart stopped beating, and she was rushed to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead 12 hours after she had arrived in miami. >> my daughter was healthy when they took her away, and the next day she was dead. >> is there any doubt in your mind that if marie had been able to come home to you as the judge had ordered that she would still be alive. >> she would not be dead. >> elizabeth dudek runs a state agency overseeing medically fragtile children like marie frerie. dudeck declined to sit down with us citing pending litigation. >> she insisted parents could decide whether their children could be cared for at home? >> it is the parent or guardian who authorizes the location of service delivery, and it is our goal to assure that children receive the medically necessary services that they need in the most home-like setting. >> i should be able to have my daughter at home with me, and

it's -- it's that simple. >> sue root and other parents we spoke to say they have had to fight the state every step of home. >> mommy's here i was trying to get him to wake up. >> sue root's daughter, amy is quadra mreemingic and suffers from life-threatening seizures that predict unpredictably, sometimes as many as 50 in a day. they require immediate medical attention. amy also breathes through a tube in her throat, an airway that needs to be monitored at all times because it can become clogged, cutting off her supply of oxygen. >> she can't walk. she can't talk. she can't eat. she can't do anything for herself at all. and so, yes, she needs care. pictures. >> uh-huh. >> that was the last school picture before her accident. a little more than four years ago, amy, an 8-year-old

3rd grader, was struck by a car driven by an under-insured driver while riding her scooter and suffered massive head trauma. soo root said a hospital told her a pediatric nursing home was the best place for her daughter. root wanted her at home, and doctors agreed. flat initially provided 24 hour nursing care for amy. >> then i got a letter one day in the mail, and it said that the hours were being reduced. >> why were they reducing the hours? amy hadn't gotten better. >> they said there was parental responsibility to take care of your own child. >> nursing hours were cut from 24 hours to 16 hours and then 12 hours leaving sue root to take the other 12 hours seven days a week. at one point, root says the state proposed cutting amy's day. >> and that was the ultimate goal, ultimate goal was for the parent to be responsible. >> according to paperwork, sue

root provided us, the nonprofit agency florida uses to administer these claims, eq health solutions said nursing care was not allowed for the convenience of the parent. >> i mean, i'm sorry that the situation happened. nobody is sorrier than we are and we live with it every day of our life. i shouldn't have to be begging for services or jumping through 50 million hoops to get these people to respond. other places, other states are -- i mean, they are able to manage these situations so much better than florida, and i am, like, why capita together? >> have you come to any conclusions about what the ants to that question is? >> they don't want to. it's not a priority. i think they would rather see my daughter die and quit being a problem to them. >> since amy joined the lawsuit, well, things have change i had. plain.

ue root once again has 24 hour nursing care for her daughter, which she believes happened only because of the suit. the only problem, state medicaid rates for home nursing haven't changed since 198 seb. it's hard to find nurses. >> once diante schuller's family got a lawyer, things changed for him, too. diante has moved from kids' corner to broward children's center, a nonprofit stepdown facility designed to prepare kids to go home. diante now takes the bus to school every day. he takes part in activities. >> we are making a lava lamp. >> and the therapists are skills. >> if you had your wish about where you could live, where would you want to live? >> at home. >> at home? with your mom? >> uh-huh. >> and your grandparents? >> uh-huh. >> home is four hours away in orlando. and visits are special

occasions. diante is the light of my life. he is a beautiful soul. when i see him, i just -- i go into joy mode. >> that's how i feel. >> pretty cool. >> yeah. >> andrew martinez's future is not as clear. on this day, marcela martinez learned his son was receiving only two hours a month of speech therapy. i was with him when he spoke to the therapist. >> she said to you, he doesn't follow our commands. and we can only evaluate him on what we see. can you remind me what you said ? >> well, i actually pulled down my camera phone and showed her how he follows commands. >> this is what he showed her. >> lift it up. lift the dumbbell up again. go. 1, 2, 3, there you go. push it. push it up. more.

you got it. hold on to it and push it. push it up. push it up. there you go. there you go, andrew. >> kids' corner's owner declined to sit down with us. we received this statement from kids' corner: our dedicated staff has an exemplary record and we take our responsibilities to the children entrusted to our care very seriously. marcella march martinez worries his son's future, already uncertain, is being further diminished by the lack of therapy and he doesn't know what will happen to andrew when he turns 21. and can no longer stay 10 at kids' corner. >> the state of florida, you don't care. you don't. this is one father that can tell you that. like i say, you don't care about my son or the rest of these kids. and i see it, live it every day.

>> america tonight's sheila mcviccer with her in-depth investigation with florida's invisible children. report. next in this hour, a military honor long overdue and repairing the damage of a less than honorable part of sdmrus >> join us on consider this... >> president jimmy carter joins antonio mora >> my administartion has a very strong human rights element. >> his perspective on the conflicts facing the world in the state of america. on al jazeera america whitehouse

that repaid a long overdue honor and attempted to repair an old wound. president obama awarded the in case's highest military recognition, the medal of harn honor top those who should have been honored, testament to a displaceful part of history. >> you retired 1985? >> 1 may, 19885. >> 72-year-old melvin morris lives on florida's coast? >> my biat right in here. >> leisure days down by the boat. he looks the part, too, and like many here, the hat he proudly service. service? >> 23. >> 23 >> uh-huh. >> sarge first class morris joined the oklahoma national guard in 1959 and enlisted in the army.

he joined the special forces and was one of the first soldiers to wear the green beret. he volunteered for deployment as commander of strike force 5. >> we were a search and destroy unit. our job was to find the enemy and, you know, get some results. >> in 1969, he was on a mission with a platoon of south vietnamese fighters. the result of that max near chi lang would change his life. in a fierce fire fight other u.s. soldiers were hit and down. morris made a decision. >> we can't leave nothing for the enemy. we will never leave another fallen comrade. and i turn him over, you know, to checking on him. he was dead. and i give him last rights. >> that's my way. as i finished giving last rig rights, i mean, they opened up. >> in a hail of gunfire, the green beret carried the body out and then went back for a fallen

map case. >> what's in that case. >> sensitive material. >> a map. >> maps, documents, whatever. >> something you don't want the enemy to have? that. >> on his way out, still under heavy fire, he took bullets in the chest, arm, and hand. >> i didn't feel that i had to run. i had to get out. this is the nation's second highest decoration, distinguished service cross. >> for his actions that day, morris was awarded a purple heart for his wounds and the distinguished service cross for his heroism. he went back to vietnam for another combat tour. >> i don't know if i was fully healed or no when i went back. yes care. >> 15 years later, the green beret hung up his combat boots and retired to florida with his wife of 52 years, mary. >> proud of his service, morris displays his medals and commendations in his. >> i have three army accomodation models -- metdals and two for valor. >> his career was behind him? >> i thought i was done. that was it.

>> but almost a year ago, he got a call from an army kernel at the pentagon >> he said a high government official needs to speak to you. and he will call you. i want you to stand by the telephone and be there at 12:30 tomorrow standing by the telephone. so, i am nervous. telephone. >> that official was the commander in chief, obama. >> he said i want to apologize to you. you should have received the medal of honor 44 years ago, and i am presenting you with the congressional medal of honor. and i dropped down on my knees. i was overwhelmed. >> do you know why you didn't ago. >> i didn't have a clue. you know, i never thought about it. our nation's second highest declaration for 44 years. >> introduced to the civil war the middle of honor is the military's highest award for

combat valor most of the 24 veterans are jewish americans, hispanic or african-american. these men were nominated for the medal of honor following a 12-year review ordered by congress of combatants passed over because of religious or racial backgrounds. >> we found that there was enstitutional and personal racism in the army. >> professor richerred cohen is a former pentagon executive. he was part after 1993 study ordered by the armed services committee to find out if racism was behind the fact that no black soldier received the medal of honor in world war ii. >> it was a pretty persuasive document that said, yes, there was, without doubt, racial discrimination in the army in all of the services that ended up creating this imbalance. >> no african-american who

deserved the medal of honor for his service in world war ii received it. picture. >> that study paid for the way for other reviews of groups of minority service overlooked for the highest honor as a result of prejudice the highest honor as a result of prejudice most recently jewish americans and hispanics. morris is one of only three living members of this latest group of awardees, the largest group since world war ii the other 2 are specialists: from san antonio texas and jose rodillo of corpus christi texas. >> how hard was it to be an african-american soldier, a green beret in vietnam? >> it wasn't. it wasn't hard. it wasn't hard at all. i never faced the problem.

now, as far as i was saying talking about way above me. but down at the soldier level, i didn't have a problem. >> since the announcement of the award, morris's phone has been ringing off of the hook. the retiree bowled over by the attention like being invited by the washington nationals to throw the opening pitch in their game against the atlanta braves in nearby viera, florida. in his mind, vietnam is not behind him. >> how does it feel 44 years later to be reliving this i relived it every day but you flashbacks. >> just those moments. >> just those moments. ptsd is real. i can't tell somebody i am so tough that i didn't suffer from ptsd. i would be lying. >> this military man would not trade it and the honors for the world.

>> i don't regret anything. would i do it again? yes. >> in a heart beat? >> in a heart beat. uh-huh. >> america tonight, sheila mcvicker with a real american hero. looking ahead next week on america tonight, stunning recollections of an often history. >> they were asleep by the time they got to the operating room. i remember one week, we could do seven male sterilizations and the next week, we could only do two female sterilizations because it took much longer to do the females than it did the males. >> the stolen futures of thousands of americans as explained by a nurse who details her own role publically for the first time. she speaks only to america tonight, laura jane

guihau about what she did and the patients who changed her life. the story on america tonight. up next in this hour an american tonight exclusive report about sexual assault and the men and women in uniform who are victims.

>> on america tonight, we have reported extensively about the troubling number of sexual assaults in the military backs by the pentagon's own reports the military's own reports say it hovers around 20,000 a year. some victims are taking their cases to the international human

rights commission in an exclusive report t laura jane guihaw? >> not being able to finish my service, the opportunities that were taken and then the subsequent backlash from friends and family when i got home, all of that was hard, really very difficult. >> jessica spent just a year serving as a private in the army with a brief employee at deployment to korea, although her time in the military was short, it was long enough to leave her with painful mental scars. she says she was sexually harassed by a military instructor and, in two separate, unrelated incidents, she claims she was raped. in one case, kenyan says a national guard soldier raped her when she was home for the holidays. >> i was attacked in my mother's

car when he was walking me out. and i, you know, opened the car to throw my purse in. so that that. kenyan's story and those of 19 other service members are detailed in an 83-page petition filed with the inter american commission on human rights. it's primary goal is to promote and protect human rights in the american hemmis fear. as the complaint alleges, the united states and the department of defense violated each petitioner's human rights by failing to properly investigate sexual assault cases and perpetrators? >> the joke when we went there was we were there to did i have fend the constitution that doesn't apply to us. to some degree, you have to accept that. but at the same time, it is unfair to have crime victims of

any sort be treated as perpetrators when she reported the harassment and her first rape, she was told to put them on the back burner and that it can be used against her. kenyan says the culture within the military made it difficult for her to cope. >> my whole life from them then was terrible because i had the reputation of reporting people. i was the one to be ostracized. >> the united states government has an obligation to protect its citizens from attacks to their person and to their integrity assaults. >> corey calabrese is an attorney who helped file the case. she is hoping international pressure will force the explicitly to do what it has worked to do, remove the handling of sexual assault cases >> i think if you read the stories of the 20 petitioners and what they went through and

the in, that the u.s. military took, that is what is in sane. you can't sue the military in this country. there is literally no other remedy for them. other than going to a human rights condition. >> maureen schroeder is calling for action. she says she was physically abused and raped by a co-worker and her command accused her of lying. she was labeled a trouble maker, forced to work with her attacker and command did not punish her rapist in another case, the petition says blake stephens was repeatedly assaulted including a bottle of soda being shoved into his correctim. he said the attackers had to do extra push-ups. >> international law has said that rape is a form of torture, especially one committed by government actors. >> that's exactly what we have here we have other military

members who raped other military members and a u.s. government instances. >> part of what has been arranged in this petition is that the the dod refused to implement laws that have been enacted by congress we have seen action all along bye-bye various parts of the government. i think over the past year the u.s. government and the military has taken some very positiv steps to address steps in the military. they have not gone far enough. >> when we contacted the department of defense spokesperson about this petition, she wasn't aware it had again filed. in a written statement, the pentagon says it has developed 21 new initiatives aimed at improving the military justice system over the past year lieutenant colonel katherine wilk inson said we will maintain a culture where every single

member is treated with respect and where offenders know they will be held accountable by strong and effective systems of justice. >> jessica ken john says the military has a long way to go >> it was enlightening with how sealed off they are and how backwards their thinking is and how arkansas aic their justice system is. >> ye yay. it's been almost 10 years since kenyan left the military. family is her focus now and assault. >> so now, you do a lot of advocacy work. >> correct because i work on things to help improve the treatment of other survivors. >> no matter what the outcome of this petition, she is not giving up the fight. >> laura jane glehaw, al jazeera. >> aver the break on america tonight, dream dollars. >> he came to pull out $5,000 out of his pocket just for me to

like go to school. it had to be like patient on knowing how many classes i have to take. >> the scholarship program that's giving dreamers a chance at a better life.

. >> innocence, texas and austin already do but the challenge for most kids remains great. >> for me to be able to work hard and get as far as i can. >> elda pausea's father brought her family to live in virginia when she was 10 years old. >> it's important to get, like, a good education because i know that's the reason my dad brought me here because he knew it's a better chance here than back in

hon onduras. >> for most of her childhood she didn't know she was undocumented. she found out after her brother was deported. >> i thought we would just go to college like anyone else. when i was in high school, i always thought of being a teacher. that was, like, my goal. >> her dream ran smack into the reality of life as an undocumented immigrant. >> i can't get money since i will not allowed to get loans. i just took off basically a year off because i knew i didn't have the money to take as many classes as i wanted to. >> even her local community college at $1,200 a class is nearly out of reach. paz can only afford one class per semester. at this rate, it will take her three years to get enough credits to apply for a transfer to a four-year school where she degree.

>> i can't afford any more classes. my dad has to, like, pay rent. he can't pull out of his just for me to like go to school. it has to be that impatient and take. >> at four year institutions, the money gap can be even more forbidding. at trinity washington university known for its education program and outreach to under-served students, tuition and fees are over $31,000 a year. most of its students get help from the government. the single biggest challenge that undocumented students face is that they are unable to participate in the a financial aid program. they can't get student loans. they cannot get pel grants. >> it's not much easier at public universities. as many as two million dreamers, young people raised without legal authorization in the u.s.

can now qualify for in-state tuition in sixteen states with more considering it. al handful of them allow dreamers to apply for state-funded scholarships and aid as well. >> these young people have grown up here. they are as american as i am. to keep them out of the educational system is a loss for america, not just for the studentss, but for this nation as well. >> in high schools all over america the undocumented immigrants are learning from their counselors that they alone among their classmates can receive no financial aid to go loans. >> stymied by debates over immigration, donald graham launched a $25 million scholarship fund solely for dreamer students. >> we are offering 25,000 dollar scholarships for work-related

programs. >> such as? >> nurses, teachers, computer programmers, accountants, work-related programs in schools where the total tuition costs around 25,000. we have 14 education partners around the country. >> gram says the fund has drawn support from across the ideological spectrum on immigration. the idea, he says, grew out of his experience helping low-income students in washington, d.c. reach their clem dreams. >> we have been helping all of the kids in public school in this city, but every year, there were first two and then five and then 10 and now 75 or 100 of these students who came here most of them as little kids with their parents. they, themselves did not illegally immigrant. the rest of the class graduates. the rest of the class can get pel grants. most of our d.c. students are very low income. everybody can get federal college loans.

the dreamers can get nothing. >> but opponents argue that amounts to a handout for those undocumented immigrants at the expense of u.s. citizens. my concern would be, are these dollars going to go to procure spots in classes that could go to somebody who just returned from afghanistan or iraq? it's about access to that seat in that cloos class so that, you know, an american or a legal immigrant can pure sue their educational opportunity? backseat. >> let me ask you this: if these young people are going to stay in the united states anyway maybe on a path to citizenship, would i want it be best to give them the opportunity to get the most education they can? >> the question is: are there going to be educational opportunities and is california going to have a strong enough educational system to actually sustain economic development and growth?

are we going to become a leader again in the world, or are we just going to be sort of a welfare state? i think we ought to cut off all entitlements and benefits to people that might come here he will legally because, look, free markets work? >>. and you would be nuts not to come here if you are in a war-torn country like our neighbor to the south if you find out they are giving, you know, free k through 12 education and welfare payments and food stamps and next thing you know, they are giving out free college tuition. it's like you won the lottery. >> the idea that undocumented students are going to take something away from an american student is preposterous. these individuals are not taking anything away from another student. there is plenty of money to go around. education is the best way to alleviate poverty, to advance the interests of our society. why would anyone want top deny an education to a young person? >> a young person like elba for whom a scholarship like this would be an opportunity to reach

her goals and if you will fill her father's, too. >> he thinks there is just like a limit. but i tell him, like, there isn't. there will shouldn't be just because of my status at the moment. if i get really far. >> on a brighter future and the imagination that makes opportunity. we traveled to the slums of nirobi whereas it is in so many parts of the world, football, what we call soccer, is king and where if you are a child without resources, sometimes creative thinking can make all of the difference the slum is called akivira. it's in nairobi, kenya, between 800,000 and

a million live here. in kenya, stwaul is very important. no questions asked. no questions asked. >> the number 1 support, for the people who live here. >> this is a familiar face. even though we can't afford so many things but we are happy to live as we are. >> they are playing football in the slums. >> when you don't have resources, you don't have to buy a football. you can make a ball on your own. kids make them for themselves. get some rope or rubber bands.

you put one back over another another. >> you know, we don't need more than whatever we have because we can't afford that. >> the balls are made. it when i was at the age, i used to make my own balls. when you are young, you just want to have fun.

you are not too worried about if isn't. you just want to have fun and kick it. i believe by playing that ball, also, they get some. >> if i can't make this ball, i can't have anything to play with. so, i have decided always make these so i can be a good ball player coming from slum. >> can you just want to have follow-up? you are not too concerned about the quality of the ball or if it's a bul. i want to kick it and have fun. great work. ahead on our final thoughts of this hour, home on the range. we'll meet an american treasurer wrangling life and fatherhood with his heart.

take a new look at news. >>. >> finally, from us this hour, the dream of so many little boys lived large and real and in the great american west. as part of our american treasures series, the story of a rough and ready icon trying to preserve a special part of on you are culture so he can pass it on in helena, montana.

♪ i have seen things and been places that people would pay millions of dollars to go see, lived it. >> the cowboy that's about all i known. i like to rope everything. i try to rope bears and dear and elk. if it moves or runs, like to try to get a rope on it. i ride a lot of colts, you know, for outside people and i do some of my own that i do, but if somebody calls and needs help, that's where i to. different outfits need people to go doctor calves or babbed or move cows and i will hell them do that: i don't know if i am a

professional, but i want to say i am a cowboy, you know. i just want to be able to say that whenever it needs to be done, i can getter done. >> that's how i want to be known as a cowboy, get the job done. i have a wife that puts up with me and i have two boys i am trying to make them cowboys. >> they are getting to be pretty good cowboys. [yelling.) >> they are pretty good help, starting to figure it out and keep going. >> kid of mine is showing off. i just think it's a good way to be brought up, you know, and they get to learn how to deal with animals and the work ethic, you know, cowboys, i think got a good work ethic.

>> i have had cattle since i was them boys' age and, you know, that's what i want to be is a ranch some day. just be able to sustain and live a good life with your family, you know. ranch is a good life. >> harder to make a living, you know. it used to be a lot more families could live on a place and make it now, it's tougherty enjoy what i do. i can't complain. cowboy is done. i don't know if there will be cowboy maybe they will find a loop where they will get into

it, but you never know. there might not be. you can't count on it, you know. things are changing. so we will see. got to just keep dealing with the times and living the way you live. i was guiding hunters, and a horse got loose, and i took after it, and somehow knocked me off of my horse. i slid about 30 feet and hit a tree. i spent 21 days in the hospital months. >> having that wreck just gave me a wake-up call that i need to appreciate what i have and the life i get to live. >> i was wanting more and more and really, now, i am satisfied with what i have. i still want. i don't want material things. i want to keep improving in my riding. i want to get to have more ranch and get my kids to appreciate

what i think is important in life. if they can get something out of that, you know, i am not going to make them be cowboys if that's not what they want. i just want to try to get them the opportunity i had, you know. >> here, come get on my horse. >> ohh. >> come get on my horse. is it tight? >> hold it tight. >> what are you going to do. >> okay. come forward. come a little bit. >> dad, can i rope one? >> be quiet. okay. dally: >> i can't. >> dally. hold her tight. back

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