spike bauer could not quote many bible verses, but he loved god. he couldn't tell you all the statistics about why children need mothers and fathers, but he loved me and he loved my mom and even though we had a lot of hard times and don't remember there ever being a time when he didn't figure out a way to make enough money to keep food on the table and pay the mortgage. my dad was in the marines in world war ii. first marine corps division in the south pacific. when i was growing up i didn't fully understand. it is to get him to talk about it and he never would until eventually award him down and one night we sat at the kitchen table and he told me unbelievable things that he saw and things that he had to do in service to his country. i found myself wishing i had never asked him. they haunted me for years. i couldn't imagine anybody having to go through that. these last two weeks it was men like spike bauer that were told they couldn't go to the memorial built in their honor. one of those on airplanes that landed out of reagan national filled with

weeks it was men like spike bauer that were told they couldn't go to the memorial built in their honorhose on airplanes that landed out of reagan national filled with guys like my dad was met by a bunch of reporters and they went up to these veterans and they said -- you know the memorial is closed, right? and you came all the way to washington to go to a close memorial? responded, when we got to the beaches of normandy they were closed, too. [applause] i couldn't help but think about the fact that the president of the united states -- don't be mistaken about this. if we don't accomplish anything in this lousy several weeks of this battle, make sure your neighbors understand that the reason that veterans couldn't visit their memorials is that the president of the united ordered the office of management of budget to order the park miserable make life for any american using our parks, anybody who wanted to go to those memorials. the park police said it. we have been told to make life miserable, the one lady said. she probably is not working at the park service anymore. the president of t

spike bauer could not quote many bible verses, but he loved god.dn't tell you all the statistics about why children need mothers and fathers, but he loved me and he loved my mom and even though we had a lot of hard times and don't remember there ever being a time when he didn't figure out a way to make enough money to keep food on the table and pay the mortgage. my dad was in the marines in world war ii. first marine corps division in the south pacific. when i was growing up i didn't fully understand. it is to get him to talk about it and he never would until eventually award him down and one night we sat at the kitchen table and he told me unbelievable things that he saw and things that he had to do in service to his country. i found myself wishing i had never asked him. they haunted me for years. i couldn't imagine anybody having to go through that. these last two weeks it was men like spike bauer that were told they couldn't go to the memorial built in their honor. one of those on airplanes that landed out of reagan national filled with guys lik

i found myself thinking a lot about spike bauer, my dad. he was a janitor.e was no saint, my friend. i'm not going to making something that he wasn't. he had a tough life. he was an orphan, grasp the all his life with wife birth parents had abandoned him. he drank too much. he had what today is called an anger management problem. he didn't earn the name spike like playing chess, i want to tell you. spike bauer commented, he couldn't quote many bible verses, but he loved god. he couldn't tell you all the statistics about why children need mothers and fathers, that he loved me and he loved my mom, even though we had a lot of hard times i don't member there ever been a time when he didn't figure out a way to make enough money to keep food on the table and pay the mortgage. my dad was in the marines in world war ii, first marine corps division in the south pacific. when i was growing up i didn't fully understand. i used to try to get him to talk about it, and he never would until eventual i wore them down. one night we sat at the kitchen table when he told me un