[applause] >> myron: thank you, jen. senator mccain, i am truly honored to welcome you on this veteran's day. >> senator mccain: thank you. >> myron: as the 107th president of the national press club. >> senator mccain: at least you were president of something. [applause] >> myron: my class in columbia made a similar remark. i am also honored to welcome you as a member of the national press club american legion post 20. i want to acknowledge your co-author and friend mark. can you stand to be acknowledged? [applause] >> myron: senator mccain your book published appropriately on veteran's day profiles 13 soldiers in 13 wars. among the millions who served in the military how did you select those 13 to be the subjects representing each war? how did you do it? >> senator mccain: thank you myron, and thank you to the press club for mosthosting this. and after i lost running for president i slept like a baby. slept two hours, woke up and cried and slept a little more. i am honored to be here and honored to have my co-author an

>> myron: he was a special friend. and he received the congressional medal of honor for what happened on a combat mission weeks before he was shot down and became a prisoner. i try to make this as short as possible but still the most heavily defended air space in history was the air space over north vietnam. there were literally tens of thousands of anti aircraft guns thousands of surface air missile in placements and they had made aircraft at various basis that would come out on occasion. they could not come out all of the time but they were there as a constant threat, too. and unfortunately we watched those being offloaded from a russian crater taking off and taken up by truck and put in place and we were not allowed to strike them and they later fired at us. don't ask me to explain that. >> myron: those restrictions still hurt 50 years later? >> senator mccain: he lost so many men to the surface air missiles and some of them we could have destroyed before they got there. the surface air missiles sites we have strong

[applause] >> myron: thank you, jen. senator mccain, i am truly honored to welcome you on this veteran's day. >> senator mccain: thank you. >> myron: as the 107th president of the national press club. >> senator mccain: at least you were president of something. [applause] >> myron: my class in columbia made a similar remark. i am also honored to welcome you as a member of the national press club american legion post 20. i want to acknowledge your co-author and friend mark. can you stand to be acknowledged? [applause] >> myron: senator mccain your book published appropriately on veteran's day profiles 13 soldiers in 13 wars. among the millions who served in the military how did you select those 13 to be the subjects representing each war? how did you do it? >> senator mccain: thank you myron, and thank you to the press club for mosthosting this. and after i lost running for president i slept like a baby. slept two hours, woke up and cried and slept a little more. i am honored to be here and honored to have my co-author an

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>> maya was born a man and his name is myron. owe now rick will marry her.hey are in the hot tub together all the time. she has to tell him. >> he doesn't know. >> i was born a man. >> are you sure he doesn't know. >> how does he not know. >> well, her sister brought it up, she's in it, her mother father and sister. >> i see. >> i'm sure they will play that out for at least a month. >> maybe a year. >> see, that happened on wednesday, right. >> you missed it. >> i tune in yesterday, it is march madness. so they knew how to grab us with a biggie and they will keep us around until monday. >> march madness is good. >> i need to make ab announcement, i was born michelle. >> okay. still a ahead first day of spring rita's water ice has been out there. >> you mean water ice. >> come on down before 10:00 and get a free water ice. dave: the effect that standardized testing is having on our students is already coming through, it's already showing, and they haven't even taken the test yet. my first-grader came home the other day and cried, because he couldn't - he didn

you're myron. you're my brother. >> reporter: they discovered something about her they didn't know.sial issues but the twist came as a surprise to the actress playing her, carla moseley. >> she is a transgender woman. at first i was shocked and then i said thank you because obviously as an actress it's an incredible thing to play. >> there have been transgender characters of ss on soaps before but this looks likite going to be a recurring role. >> reporter: for the actress, this revelation is an opportunity to entertain and educate her audience. >> they're now basically going through this kind of just closure process as each of the characters on the show are. if i've loved the character for so long, why is this changing the way they i feel now. >> reporter: at this point in the b & b story line, there's still a person who doesn't know miya was born a male. her boyfriend rick. >> it's brave. brave of cbs. we're standing behind it and feel it's important. >> you're real good at trash talking me in front of rick. >> it could be good for the show as well. >> it's away to keep them at th

you're myron p. brother. >> the soap opera revealed that a soap character played by a woman the past ten years is transgender. >> vinita in 2011 "don't ask, don't tell" allowed gays bisexuals into the military openly. last year president obama sign add bill prohibiting them to discrimination but that does not apply to the military. >> it was a command sergeant major in afghanistan who pulled me into his office and he said i need to know exactly what you are. >> what landon wilson was was transgender. in his case born biologically a female but living as a male. his commanding officer uncovered his secret at the end of 2013 while reviewing then 23-year-old wilson for a promotion. he was forced to leave the mill tai with an honorable discharge. >> what went three your head and you were packing up your gear to leave? >> my main concern is who's going to take my spot. when you're in a place like that, you can't afford to lose anybody. >> you were worried about your buddies, about the mission. >> absolutel