as we work tother, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: please welcome ry cooder to this program, the legendary guitarist. he is out now with a new project in time for the political season. the disk is called "election special," and i am told that it was inspired by a show that i was a part of. here is a song from the disk, "mutt romney blues." >> what were you thinking? >> i did not know there was something wrong with this. >> the dog gets out of the car. >> pulling up, woof, woof, woof ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> he secured the dog on the roof for a 12-hour drive. tavis: ry cooder, what goes through an artists head to give him the idea to write something like "mutt romney blues"? >> i said i have to talk some about mitt. how do you take a guy like this, a kind of colorless, odorless unknown character, and i tried to make a mormon song, but it was too complicated, and so i got the idea of a dog, needing to tell his story and being a whistle-blower, and we know how dang

put it, "among the most amazing things that camame out of tt terrible tragedy was americans coming totherng in the pentagon when the plane hit on 9/11. in the days and weeks that followed, she played a central role in reaching out to the families in turmoil. >> this a tradition within the military, that whenever we have multiple fatalities we set up a place where families can go to get accurate information, to get support, to have childcare, so that the surviving family members can deal with the a horrible time in their lives. >> the next morning, the family assistance center was up and running at a nearby hotel. for the next 30 days, the pentagon operated the center around the clock, providing families with meals, suppoport, and most importantly, information. >> bernard salamone: it was wonderful. i mean, if we asked for something, it was made available to us. calling cards; howow many timess did we get calling cards? they must have loaded us up with calling cards. they just didn't know what elsee to do for us. the american people were just extremely kind to us... extremely kikind to us.

the marine from long island tother that she was not out of afghanistan soon, he would be dead. >> this buckley jr. was supposed to see he was helping to train afghan forces. the marine had only two days left before had to see his brother played varsity football for the first time. before getting word that he was to go home early, he phoned his debt. >> he told me that he would have to stay until november nov said he was not coming home. he said, you have to tell mom and my brothers that i will be killed. >> then, it happened. he was gunned down when the very forces he was training, like he said, it happened inside the base. by his full calls and letters coming in a that was coming. on guard duty, he had a run in with a trainee. >> his dad said he spent the rest of the night with the training. building local security is considered the linchpin for withdrawal, but attacks by chinese have become disturbingly more treatments. i collapsed and of course his mother collapsed. >> his brothers refused to cry, at least during the day. >> i thought my son had dropped water on the floor, bawling.