. >> with a 55-minute van ride to the bus depot and a five-hour bus ride to dothan, donald calls hisunt to confirm she will pick him up at the bus station. >> i'm calling to tell you i'm out and i'll be there around 6:00 tonight. sorry you can't pick up the phone. hopefully i'll call you soon. see you later. bye. love you. i guess she ain't home. voice mail or answering machine or something. that's pretty cool. >> what's the last time you saw a cell phone? >> i ain't ever seen one this small. i ain't never seen one like this at all. six years is a long time, i think. i hope -- i hope i can still be able to go on a -- i don't know how to say it. i'm choked up. in a way i am, in a way i ain't, you know. i just hope i can do the right thing, you know. it's hard to say it and do it. >> you know what not to do. >> i know what not to do. it's going to be hard. it ain't going to be easy. this is the easy part, going home today. >> yeah, it is. you know, just being real about it. >> right. >> never said anything wrong to me, kevin. >> 20 minutes change buses in montgomery. >> montgomery? >>

. >> i want dothaning his holiness, pope francis, whose moral example shows us the importance of pursuingshould be rather than simply settling for the world as it is. >> this summer pope francis made a personal appeal to president obama and cuban leaders and then a couple months later the vatican hosted talks between the united states and cuban delegations. joining me to talk about this from rome, cnn vatican correspondent delia gallagher. hi, delia. >> reporter: hello to you, carol. >> hello. i'm glad you're here. why was this so important to the pope? >> reporter: well, you know, he said this morning, carol, to a group of am brass doors that the whole reason to get involved in diplomacy is peace. it's to bring people together, to help build bridges. it's been the vatican line for many years, without dialogue, there is no peace, there is no better world. so pope francis's rationale in all of this is something similar to what we saw this summer when he invited the delegates from israel and the palestinian territories to the vatican. it's to bring parties who are not speaking the the table

over to the front page of the "dothan eagle." "the daily star" __ from lebanon.e want to get your reaction this morning. there's a special line for afghan veterans. on our twitter page __ joseph hill will remember the war __ if you are an afghan veterans, we have a special line for you. please call in on that line. lee from virginia. caller: good morning. host: how we remember the war? caller: i was in afghanistan first in 2001 and in 2003. my job was to take care of other marines. i also did some work with aviation as well. in 2005, i joined a special unit to take care of wounded warriors coming back from the war. this was very personal to me. i lost a very dear friend. i think you have a lot of people. i was hurt myself from this. i remember this war __ lots of things __ the moon dust on the ground. i remember the smell, the sites. to take it to a different level __ i remember this. i joined the navy in 1998. i went to the navy corps school, and medical school before 9/11. when 9/11 hey, i remember the terminus patriotism. we all said, all right, we're going to