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one thing that makes our day when we're on the field is watching lauren get up to bat. our daughter loves baseball. d anwe tried to get her on some teams, and there were some coaches that would include her but she just never felt right about it. hitting the ball and then making the other kids wait, just wasn't her idea of what baseball was. hitting the ball and then making the other kids wait, we thought she would just have to settle for being a fan; until rotary stepped in. and they built this special field. they took an idea of just letting the kids play baseball and made it fit these kids, rather than trying to make the kids fit the field. lauren forgets about what she can't do, because they've given her the opportunity to do something that we never thought possible. when these kids get to play ball, their heart is there they're so excited and they just get to feel like regular kids. on the phone i heard her telling her grandmother that she was the luckiest kid in the world.

♪ [male narrator] before his injury, john bennett was a career soldier. while serving in iraq, he was shot by a sniper. i stepped out, turned back towards the humvee and as soon as i did, i got hit. [sound of gun shot] it shattered two vertebrae and fractured another one. i ended up losing my right kidney, my spleen, my colon and half my pancreas. [dena bennett] paralyzed veterans of america got us our benefits. [nso michael killen] i helped them fill out the forms. i hand carried the forms over to the v-a and walked them through the system. you're. you're just trying to survive and they help you. they help you along the way. [nso michael killen] it's very nice to see when your work pays off and you are very successful in it, because you can see the change in that veteran. [dena bennett] him starting a taxidermy business is accomplishing something every day. [john bennett] i gotta get up, go to a job and do something that i enjoy. i'm glad to be back to work. [narrator] to learn more about paralyzed veterans of america,

visit p-v-a dot org. freezing temperatures adding up to a dangerous cold. smoke and fire in the air. a high rise fire turned deadly as hundreds work to battle the flame. and stroke of luck. a missing man is located by his family after they see a picture of him taken hundreds of miles from home. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, january 6th, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, this morning a massive and potentially