not know a robert hamberg. -- timberg. i was lost for all intents and purposes. the people who needed to know where i was, the marine hierarchy, my wife, my ther. the way it got straightened out was my father. passed on. he had lots of quartz. he was a jewish body billion. llian and wonderful composer. he was also a christian scientist. but not exactly a great christian scientists, but he wanted to be one. the way he dealt with the idea hemedicine and doctors is would take doctors out to dinner or at christmas, give them gifts. vietnam, heent to try something similar. he was living in scranton, pennsylvania. there was a marine there. there were like four or five marines. my father became friends with them and took them out to lunch and stuff like that. i am sure he was probably devastated when he found out i was wounded. no one could find me. he wanted their and said to those guys, "please, find my son." and they found me the next day. a there was a pay issue in the middle of all of that. >> the pay issue was -- >> you are

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." ♪ >> this week on "q&a," our guest is robert timberg, journalist and author of "blue eyed boy."1965, he was a marine 13 days away from coming home when his vehicle struck a landmine and changed his life forever. he talks about the impact of the experience, the 35 surgeries he has had, his thoughts on the vietnam war and how he physically and emotionally rebuilt himself and his career following the explosion. >> bob timberg, in your acknowledgments, you said my son bullied me into writing it. we are talking about this book "blue eyed boy." >> that is true. i had never really had a desire to write this book. people had asked me over the years, why don't you write it? i said, i do not need to get into it. i was concerned about after flash. this being, you know, too hard, dredging up the emotions would be too heavy. i did not think at that time years ago that i had anything to say that was a anyway -- in any way -- there were a lot of books written by veterans who were wounded. craig kept pushing. craig, as you may know -- since he was a little kid, if he started wanting to do somet

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after that, q&a with robert timberg, author and vietnam veteran. and live at 7:00 a.m. your calls and comments on washington journal." now, a debate in the michigan governor race. incumbent rick snyder faces democratic challenger shower in detroit, michigan. governor shower was elected in 2010 was over 58% of the vote. this is courtesy of the detroit free press and detroit public television just under an hour. >> welcome. we are on the campus of wayne state university. our audience is made up of nondemit voters and guests. they will get to ask questions of the candidates along with our moderators. congressman mark schauer. >> gentlemen, welcome. as christie noted, there are few in this format. no clock, no buzzers but we ask you keep your answers throughso key with move as many issues as

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secretary of state colin powell talks about world affairs and sunday evening at 8:00 on q&a author robert timberg talks about how a marine in vietnam a land mine explosion nearly killed him and changed his life and friday night at 8:00 on c-span2, author and activist ralph nader calls for an alliance between parties to take on the issues that plague america, saturday night at 10:00 on book tv's afterward, an author on why he feels medical science should be doing more for the aging and dying and sunday just after 7:00, naomi klein on free market capitalism and its impact on climate change. friday at 8:00 on american history tv on c-span3, curator and director of the cia museum in virginia toni hyley explains the preserving of history and saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern the king georges war of the 1740s, how it helped the american colonists engage. sunday night at 8:00 p.m. president ford's congressional testimony on the nixon pardon. find our television schedule at c-sp c-span.org, call us at 202-626-3400, e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. join the conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twi

and sunday evening at 8:00 on q & a, robert timberg talks about how a marine in vietnam, a land mine explosion nearly killed him and changed his life. and friday night at 8:00 on c-span 2, author and activist ralph nader calls for an alliance between parties to take on the issues that plague america. saturday night at 10:00 on book tv's afterwards, surgeon and author on why he feels medical science should be doing more for the aging and dying. and sunday, just after 7:00, syndicated columnist naomi klein on free market capitalism. friday at 8:00 on american history tv on c-span 3, curator and director of the cia museum in virginia, tony hileigh explains of preserving and protecting the museum's history. how it helped establish regional identities and gain valuable fighting experience for their own revolution. and sunday night, on the presidency at 8:00 p.m., the congressional testimony on the nixon pardon. find our television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about >> welcome you all this morning. thank you for coming. my name is tony morrow, and i am on the steer

and sunday evening at 8:00 on "q&a," author robert timberg talks about how as a marine in vietnam a landmineday night at 8:00 on c-span2, author, activists ralph nader calls for alliance from the two parties to take on issues affecting america. and sunday, just after 7:00, syndicated columnist naomi klein on free-market capitalism and its impact on climate change. friday at 8:00, on american history tv, on c-span3, curator and director of the cia museum in virginia, tony highly, explains the museum's mission of preserving and presenting the agency's history. saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, king george's war of the 1740s. how it helped american colonists establish regional identities and gain valuable fighting experience for their own revolution. sunday night at 8:00 p.m., president ford's congressional testimony on the nixon pardon. find the television schedule at c-span.org. let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us. email us at comments @c-span.org or send us a tweet@c-span #comments. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >>> d

with robert a" timberg. >> tonight on "the communicators" three members of congress talk about the legislation>> back in 2012 we passed a law that makes it possible for the major broadcasters to give back some of their spectrum that they've had. it gives the f.c.c. the authority to repackage spectrum and we allocate it. under curn law the low powered television industry they are granted licenses but those licenses are subject to availability in the particular marketplace. >> what i am concerned about is an improper call for a kill switch on somebody's phone if some government entity or an individual, you know, decides that they want to cut your phone off. and it's your phone. i think they that you ought to have some protection. so what this bill says is you certainly can ask your carrier to cut your phone off if you're the primary person that uses the phone, you can ask that the phone be cut off. or if you're a law enforcement agency you have o get a court order to do so. >> spoofing is very bad behavior where those who are fraudulent try to trick the public to get information from the public,