as he said, i'm debra mooney.the army national guard in 1991, started out with the thunderbird division, with the 45th. i'm a combat engineer. and i have a connection with every one of these guys. the 45th engineer, the 45th for these guys. my last deployment i was with the field artillery unit. and then i met chuck at the powwow. so i have a connection with every one of them for some way. you know, our indian country is getting smaller. so i joined in 1991. i started out as a quarter master group and then moved into the combat engineers two years later. within the combat engineers i met many people and done a lot of different things. with the traditional national guard, we have a habit of saying, just national guard. well, we're in the combat zones now. our people are falling. they're dying just like the regular army or the regular marines or the navy. so if you hear anybody say "just national guard" correct them. because we are a part of the military service. and we are a vital part. because a lot more of us are

not only did i meet david little, but i met debra mooney. it has turned into a lasting relationship as a friend and good connection. we had the different events as you can see up there. the stick ball and dancing and bread. you can see the faces on the soldiers. it also uplifted my heart and made me feel young again and gave me a taste of home which was awesome. i loved. stick ball was the highlight of the pow-wow. in 2007, after i received my third purple heart, i got an e-mail from my tribal chairman. chairman romero. he said our elders want you to put down your war deeds and what you have done. we know you are coming home on mid tour leave for the new year's eve pow-wow. i said yes. he said we want to do a blessing ceremony. i thought it was strange they wanted my war deeds for a blessing ceremony. it's never been done, but i didn't question it. he is my chief. i did it. what ended up happening as he is doing my blessing, he came out to do it. i said, wow. our chief doesn't normally do this. the vice chief came out and he was doing it as

and i ended up at the pow-wow where i met debra mooney. she took me around, introducing me to people. i ran across a soldier. the one that's up on the mike, the one down there in the bottom, that we're taking a photo together. and saw him. and i said, little? and he said yeah, my name is david little. i said, do you have a brother or a relative named max? i said wow. he was having kind of a hard time in iraq. and he was really feeling it. and right before i left, i said, i have a gift for you. and i passed the penny to him. and he carried it the rest of the time on his tour in iraq. when i got back home, naomi said, do you still have that penny? i said -- she said you didn't lose it, did you? i said no, i didn't lose it. i said, i gave it away. she looked at me, and, i said, gave it to david little. and she smiled and she said, well at least it stayed in the family. she was happy about that. it made me feel special because she is my war mother, and it felt good to hear that from her. the pow-wow, debra talks about that. and it's awesome. i

if you go outside there is a little exhibit area because our other honoree, sergeant debra mooney, 45th infantry, was in iraq in combat zone and came up with the idea of having a pow-wow for the soldiers. her battalion was 80% indian. in a combat zone she organized this pow-wow and they had to make their own gear and they got friends at home to send stuff in. chuck saw a flyer and said well, i have four-day leave coming. instead i'll go to that pow-wow. he said there he was in this truck heading to this pow-wow and the truck came under attack. he is dodging bullets, doing this all to go to a pow-wow, i must be nuts. the fellows made the gear, the drum is out there. they took an oil drum, got the 45th insignias carved in it. they used a canvas from a cot. and she said we weren't supposed to take any equipment and wreck it. we had to use material that was destroyed. she said that canvas on that cot was destroyed after we cut the hole to make the drum cover. here they are. i have a recording, i don't know if they are up there. good. he'll turn it on. if you want to hear what that drum soun

chris mooney, who as i mentioned before is the author of the republican brain.is jonathan height and author of the righteous mind, why good people are divided. i think this is, in some ways, the most important single issue to figure out and discuss. i used to think that people's concerns about polarization were this bourgeois establishment and the vanguard of righteousness. i've now realized to get change on the scale, you just can't get it under the current conditionings of polar sufferings. you just can't get it. so the question is you have to solve that problem first, before you soufflve the bigger problem. it's a really good read. what is the nature of the conservative brain that makes it december tinct. >> there's a tun of research showing that the average liberal is much more open to new specious experiences and trying out new things. that means tolerating ambiguity and it makes them psychologically connected. and that's because there's a personalitity dispotion that produces in people a way of approaching the world that is prior to their politics, but the

today as expected in the championship military a major theme, the late brendan mooney an honorary captain. this thing went back and forth much of the 1st half, but then the greyhounds or should i say the g unit taking control. that's one of the 17 goals in a four-day tournament, a record. loyola wins 9-3. afterwards coach couldn't say enough about lusby. >> he was everything i saw all year in practice he and michael have been a hell of a tandem for us. again today it was eric's day. we're going to enjoy the success for eric, but this is a team win. >> great day for the state of maryland. loyola get the win. good job. >> congratulations to them. that's all for 9 news now at 6:00. cbs evening news is next. anita is back at 7:00. you can always catch us www.wusa9.com. bye.

john emhoolah and debra mooney today is in the 45th or was at one time. this was almost an all-indian unit. mostly from oklahoma. throughout the south but thousands of indians in this group, many died on the battlefield. they did all of the hard fighting in italy, sicily, and bill mauldin, the cartoonist was in the 45th. and you know, his cartoons, willy and joe, were so popular in world war ii. what people don't realize is that willy was an indian. it was his platoon sergeant. and he said that this racing billy choctaw was the bravest man he ever met, and of course he did use him for the humor. bill mauldin was joe the straight guy. but mauldin later wrote his memoirs and said the last time he saw racing billy he was dead on the beach at sicily. and so he then went after that some years later to a reunion of the 45th at the museum dedication in oklahoma, and as he went in the theater there was racing billy sitting there in the audience. he goes up and says hey, you're dead. he says i know, he says i read your book. so anyhow, there were only five indian

and that's mooney. >> it is. >> and you were stunning and so good on the show as snow white. >> thanknday at 8:00 eastern. >>> alton brown isjajajajajajaja [ cheers and applause ] >>> a great mother's day dessert coming up. alton brown. you know him from the food network. we're going to make bananas foster today. >> yes. >> you have to tell us about food network star going to be revamped. >> i'm a mentor. we each have five people we try to get all the way through the 11 episodes of the competition. and the reason i've done bananas foster, i use it to audition to people. >> i'm going to play that. >> you're an expert in this. >> yeah. >> you used to be a waiter and would come with this tableside. you're going to do the scary work. and i'm going to do the easy work. >> okay. let's go. >> table service has died off in this country. but it's fun. >> very classy. >> the sauce starts with a quarter cup of powdered brown sugar. a little allspice. i like nutmeg. >> using the real thing. >> yeah. especially with the banana liqueur, to help the sauce come together. and add two tablespoons of bu