some that i made up and some that exist this is for jessica lynch, war memories. i have forgotten myself. who i was, i cannot now know who i have become is a stranger i have forgotten myself there are other things to lose in battle eyes and guts, other sacrifices before life. vilost myself. i am not who i was before this war, i am not she who no longer dares to be my mother is so happy with this worn body returned home. we pretend that i am as whole as i look. but at night when i stair through the dark at the hidden image in the mirror i cannot lie to the stranger i see. i have forgotten everything. except my affection for children, my service to country and my insatiable fear. [applause] >> sizing up the cost of war. >> what is left but the shoes. shoes scuffed and torn, no longer having feet to carry them, shoes empty now. work boots bearing mud from the last field he had plowed with his father. empty now. red sneakers with white stripes brought back fwr america by her oldest son given to her youngest, both of them immediately rung outside kicking the soccer bal

it was used in this war to help rescue the private first class jessica lynch. used to send information to the tomahawk. it could communicate with the navy. it was condemned as unworkable, unnecessary, too expensive and due to failure. there were other satellites, one of them you may be familiar with, the g.p.s. system, global positioning system. it is 24 satellites parked about 12,600 miles above the earth. an accuracy of a millionth of a second. you get an exact position to 12 feet. they were tweaking to get it down to six feet. if you can imagine. again, i'm saying incredible and remarkable a lot, but it is. we could have spent this money and had it work. how many of us bought nice cars or new things and found out it is not worth the money. we spent the money and it is worth it. another one that is unusual, this wasn't a service-inspired object. it was forced on the services. the global hawk. unmanned aerial vehicle, 116-foot wingspan, 450 miles an hour. 16-mile plus range. loiters at altitudes of 62,000 feet. it's got all kinds of sensing systems, cameras, i