we have now done a version of the program at walter reid. so i have a larger interest in animals.m going to agree with you that we should put a lid on the butter. >> looks, i could ride a horse before i could ride a bicycle. i will have a that wants a ribbon at the 4-h level. call me weird. i do not like animals in food prep areas. [laughter] maybe that is just some kind of a coming in now, cuckoos saying. but when i see a cat through, that turns me off. but i am fine. i could still get on a horse today. i had the best childhood you can imagine. when i was really young, my crib other through rice. how you throw rice is nothing but bad and water. there's nothing better for a 5-year-old in a july day to be trenching around in mud and water. >> he is not an antihero. he knows that the animals mean to me. they're not to him. they're not allowed in his office and he doesn't know any of their names are it every time i go to an emergency vet, we go why can't these learn how to cross the street. [laughter] he just doesn't get the whole animal kingdom. >> this question is for james. one fo

i think it was either at bethesda or walter reid, and you had a hard time? >> the army's burn unit in san antonio and i turned to general corelli, he was my senior military assistant the. we were on our way to the military hospital. i said to him, i don't think i can do the burn unit, i don't think i'm strong enough. there were a lot of kids in the burn unit, there were these humvees that were becoming funeral tires for them. and he didn't say anything, and a couple minutes passed and he said, do they think i'm coming? >> they have to do it. i walk in the rehab unit, who's the first kid i lay eyes on, is a young man who is a marine first lieutenant, and i had handed him his deploem ma when i was president of texas a&m, here he is with his wife and baby. and he asked me to give him his medal at texas a&m. >> it speaks volumes about you, and how much you care and how much we all ought to give thanks for these brave men and women. moving on to the commander and chief, he doubts the course that he charted in afghanistan doesn't believe in our strategy, he's skep

and eventually buy additional medevac flight to dover, delaware and then the hospitals at walter reid and bethesda. and then in many cases, i followed particular veterans all the way home, met their families, heard how the family was getting along and began to understand more fully how the injury of a single soldier impact an entire family and through that family and entire community and beyond. the mother of one veteran of the invasion of iraq who has been at home in the bedroom of his childhood for most of the last 10 years and see return from the war cause that the ripple effect. that's a word that doesn't begin to capture the full impact of that. you know, for years i have worked in afghanistan and in other conflict countries as an aid worker, generally working on behalf of women and other civilian. of course, the principle injuries and deaths in both of these wars have occurred among the civilians of the nations that we have invaded. i having worked with those people for so many years, i went to a forward operating base to write a piece for dispatch about women soldiers on that c

states and eventually buy additional medevac slayed to dover, delaware and defend the hospitals at walter reid and bethesda. and then, in many cases i followed particular veterans all the way home, met their families, heard how the family was getting along and began to understand more fully how the injury of a single soldier in packs an entire family and through that family and the entire community and beyond. as a mother of one veteran of the invasion of iraq who has been at home in the bedroom of his childhood are most of the last 10 years since he returned from the war calls that the ripple effect. i think that is a word that doesn't begin to capture the full impact of that. you know, for years i've worked in afghanistan and another conflict countries as an aid worker, generally working on behalf of women and other civilians. of course, the principle injuries and deaths have occurred among the civilian of the nations we have invaded. i having worked with those people for so many years, i went to a forward operating base to write a piece about women soldiers i'm not a sin found myself on a b

in other words, those that many of us i know that the president has visited walter reid, as of have. those who have lost arms, legs, they receive a medical retirement and their cost of living was cut under the budget as well. so my amendment not only would pay for temporary unemployment insurance for those struggling to find work to give them a transition, to get them back to work. but it would also pay for to fix and reverse the unfair cut in military retirement benefits to their cost of living increase. those, who, by the way, have served -- many have served multiple tours for our country and sacrificed a tremendous amount because they have moved around. because they have served both many of them in iraq and afghanistan on behalf of our country. it would also in addition to that, give 7 billion to reducing our deficit. the way fair this is to close -- fix an egregious problem in our tax code. it's a problem that was identified by the treasury g. it is, frankly, egregious. this is a problem in our tax code that has allowed illegal immigrants. has allowed people who are claiming a ta

hospitals then walter reid and also bethesda. of combat injuries in afghanistan. 10 and 11. and we started bringing these families out to our home which is about an hour away from bethesda. primarily just to get away from the hospital environment and needed a home cooked meal. and basically we realized that we wanted to do more and bolder crest retreat not just for this bomb disposal community it's for any and all wounded warriors and their families. the work with the small group of bomb disposal men and women is what inspired it. >> it's hard to think of a better cause. what happens if you don't get the exemption from virginia? >> that's a good question. i think, you know, one of the big frustrations is, you know, we never built this into our budget. so our donors, you you know, when you donate to a nonprofit you are hoping that your money is going to the work that's being done. and so i am hoping i don't get any, you know, upset donors, at the end of the day, we have got to pay the tax bill. you know,. >> lou done lowden county

for walter reed's shawn bates chad olsen who was texting and his wife nicole said reid's senate will soon hit him during the creation of the witnesses say they never saw anyone touch the four queens captain reeves was considered one of the tampa bay police departments makes a valuable office is in the nineteen eighties and would handle some of the toughest case is being posted situations . i am the reconvened on him more shh shh shh. the key. we do at that. the air the decorated police captain has been charged with shooting and killing a movie goer who was texting in a florida cinema which was showing the hit new war film a lone survivor. at some point a former officer curtis reeves and brandished a gun and shot ten olsen who was texting and his wife nicole said. according to the tesco county sheriff's office reads retired from the tampa police twenty years ago the argument again after all so he asked are reasons he reported him to theater staff for using his phone. we said all see his hand during the altercation. witnesses say they never saw him touch the former police captain. in a