god bless you and semper fi, thank you for your service. >> oh, that is so sweet, thank you. [applause]. >> we did visit the wounded warriors here at bethesda, and walter reed and then, at brooke army medical center where the burn patients are. in san antonio, often, whenever we could. and then, we met, of course with families of the fallen, at all different times. i remember especially in the 2004 campaign, we'd go to big events, and them, after the big event, were over, big campaign rallies, we'd go back stage or in other rooms and meet with the families of fallen from those -- from that part of the country, wherever we were. and, that is a... you know, a grief that is very, very difficult to share with or to see with these families, and what i always saw was how the families of people who died, both in september 11th, those families that we met with after the terrorist attacks and then the families of the fallen after that, how they wanted you to know about their loved one they had lost and what they really wanted to do was tell us stories and, in fact, one sister of someo