i'm going to do hal moore stuff. and i know he enjoys doing this, but again, at some point, you have to step back. i guess a lot of it -- a lot of it is what you -- the other piece of your life. i guess in my case, the other piece of my life, what i do now is so rooted in you've got to make decisions. sometimes i go home at night, and don't ask me to make a decision about what we're going to do for dinner or where we're going to go to eat. i've done that all day. all i want to do is put my feet up. turn on the western channel. and watch gene autry. that might sound -- i mean -- but it is -- and so when i come to these, when we have these discussions about -- and i always want to be socially correct. and i always want to remember who they are. and i always want to remember what they did. but sometimes i'll look in the faces of these guys and i don't have a clue. and it's not that -- it was so long ago that i remember. there are some faces that i remember. and i don't know how to communicate this, but there were 123 gu

i mean, i could say the same about hal moore. i had not laid eyes on hal moore until the morning that we walked into the o.z. he had a reputation of being a tough commander, and he was in a separate brigade in a separate battalion and we were attached. being attached to a unit is like being a stepchild. in my case it worked well. >> you get through that night, and then the decision is made to walk to albany. what do you think about that decision to walk? there's also a question of why you wanted -- why people were going to go there? >> right. in hindsight or -- >> yeah, in hindsight. >> well, yeah. on that particular morning when the colonel calls you to the command post and the orders of day are we're going to move out. we know a portion of this unit is going to be air lifted out, and some of you guys are going to walk. aga again, i overlay my attachment mentali mentality. they're not going to fly with the stepchildren, so we assume that we would probably be one of the units that walked out. i think the concept was at the same t

i mean, i could say the same about hal moore. i had not laid eyes on hal moore until the morning that we walked into the l.z. now, his reputation as being a tough battalion commander, but i was in a separate brigade, separate battalion, and we just happened to be attached. and as i tell folks all the time, being attached to a unit is like being a stepchild. you're the last to do everything. but in my case, it worked well. >> yes, it did. so you get through that night and then the decision is made to walk to albany. >> mm-hmm. >> what do you know about that decision to walk? instead of being lifted or -- there's also a question of why you wanted -- why people were even going to go to albany. >> right. in hindsight or do you want my -- >> yeah, in hindsight. >> well, yeah. on that particular morning when the colonel calls you to the command post and the orders of the day are we're going to move out. we know a portion of this unit is going to be airlifted out, and some of you guys are going to walk. now, again, i overlay my attachme

hal moore after this battle you said he took you into the tent. what do you remember about those troopers, and him on the 16th when they came out of there? did you -- you looked them up, correct? >> oh, absolutely, yeah. we looked at every one of them just the same as we'd lifted them in. we come in empty and extracted them, which we did a lot. of times. there was a different look about the young gis in their eyes. general moore, i don't think he ever changed expression. tight jaw, big square jaws. but he -- he -- i think he's a good actor, maybe. he don't show very much emotion, and certainly not among his troops. i think he just -- just steely eyed and just squared away. >> mm-hmm. >> when it comes to that. because he don't want to -- to let any of this emotion move, you know, shed off and get on into his troops. >> yes, sir. >> and i believe that may be right on that. but, joe was a happy go lucky guy as a general rule. and still is. >> mm-hmm. >> the other night at the phoenix, medal of honor society meeting. >> yes, sir. >> 77 of us was showe

america, you have and i have talked about this before, general mccaffrey, i'm always reminded of hal moore's book "we were soldiers once and i don't think." i want to read just a small sentence from the prologue that lieutenant general moore wrote. he said, many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. those who hated it the most the professionally sensitive were not in the end sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. they hated us, as well. and we went to ground in the cross fire as we had learned in the jungles." i remember the first time i read that, i've read it so many times since. it is at least notable to say how far we've come, is it not, general? >> we've come a long way, chris. and, of course, those were great americans who were drafted. and went over there and fought with us and for this country. most of them didn't want to be there. they could have done something else. a lot of people did. they didn't take student deferments. they didn't go to canada when the draft board called them, their community leaders call

america, you have and i have talked about this before, general mccaffrey, i'm always reminded of hal moore's book "we were soldiers once and i don't think." i want to read just a small sentence from the prologue that lieutenant general moore wrote. he said, many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. those who hated it the most the professionally sensitive were not in the end sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. they hated us, as well. and we went to ground in the cross fire as we had learned in the jungles." i remember the first time i read that, i've read it so many times since. it is at least notable to say how far we've come, is it not, general? >> we've come a long way, chris. and, of course, those were great americans who were drafted. and went over there and fought with us and for this country. most of them didn't want to be there. they could have done something else. a lot of people did. they didn't take student deferments. they didn't go to canada when the draft board called them, their community leaders call

representative gwen moore who is awesome coming up at the bottom of the hour. hump days with halmber toll free from anywhere. somebody from arizona has called about just so irritating, these fiscal conservatives. sheriff joe arpaio admits using taxpayer funds to probe the birth seth. >> the state of arizona had to mortgage its own capitol building in order to raise funds. that's wasting money on crap like this. >> stephanie: he said it is one deputy. we have security issues, too, that i can't get into. i see, you have to secure your state against the non-american president or something? [ whatever! ] >> stephanie: when you're doing investigation, sometimes things change and you put more resources into it. some sort of new information. ah-ha! meanwhile, hawaii is like here it is again! you moron. >> proof that hawaii is actually in kenya. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: so roger ales just spoke at ohio university. said this thing again, u.s. supporters still don't know anything about barack obama. >> enough to make him president. >> certainly know more via his tax returns than we do sa