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Amputation of his left leg fleming used to strength and perseverance to redeploy five times after those injuries. become one of the few amputees to have ever redeployed to combat the new the fight. today he relays that message of resilience of a motivational speaker to groups across the country. welcome back to modern warriors the discussion continues in the commercial break at oxidation for more of this expanded conversation. today is the world they are people that confuse it and look to the ve...

Symptoms such as abdominal pain, jaundice, itching, the cancer has often spread quite far. its typically treated with chemotherapy and other procedures, not so much to cure it but to slow the spread and make the person feel as comfortable as possible. elizabeth cohen, cnn, atlanta. >> we wish him the best. what happens when hollywoods captain america meets his real-life counterpart? this moment right here. texas congressman dan crenshaw, who lost an eye during combat service in afghanistan, surp...

Works in public service and his time in the military. these are all letters of support in favor of mike flynn, all the people who say he is great, and these are all documents, including some handily redacted documents from his military record that spell out his public service, including his extensive career in the united states army. it guess through his accommodations, his combat service, et cetera. so, page two, three, four, five of the filing seems to go through his time, even going back to h...

Works in public works and his time in the military. these are all letters of support in favor of mike flynn, all the people who say he is great, and these are all documents, including some handily redacted documents from his military record that spell out his public service, including his extensive career in the united states army. it guess through his accommodations, his combat service, et cetera. so page two, three, four, five of the filing seems to go through his time, even going back to his ...

>> yeah, so as a young -- as a young staffer on the office of domestic policy, we would get copies of speeches that the president was going to deliver and the general idea was that if you thought something was missing you should put it in and young staffer knowing his background, whenever he -- whenever of course in era of desert shield and desert storm and whenever he was speaking to military base or to academy i would try to put in a line or two about his -- attaching it to his life. naval avi...

The enemy submarine. hit the target, destroying that target. then flew with the engine still on fire two miles to ditch the aircraft because he knew if he was captured he would be killed, tortured of by his captors who were notorious in the imperial japanese. he bailed out, so did thinks crew members. his parachute was d. not open and was killed. he survived. in the pacific ocean for four hours, picked up by u.s. submarine. again, so many of his fellow men, almost a lone survivor on that mission...

A skoch underneath what a president would offer. to what do you attribute that? is it this perspective you offer? was he able to reach more than just those in his party because of it? >> he was. i think the -- i think the -- what i mean when i say he learned perspective from his captivity and his combat service is he understood that realitys complicated. that fate and destiny are chancy things, and it enabled him to be unideological -- nonideological i guess is the better term. he was an umpire ...

Armistice. >> it is very meaningful for me and my family to be here so manies yeamany years after my fathers service. to be honest, by dad did not talk about his combat service until we were all grown up. it was a lot of tough fighting. he spent time on pork chop hill and mt. baldy. the general and his team were kind enough to share information about the battles with us. i think in some ways, my dad might be smiling from heaven to see that the sacrifices that he and other american soldiers and s...

And do some other things. thought about politics and government work sometimes, but i had no idea that i ever would be able to do that myselfment you know, i thought about that since i was a kid. i was proud of my combat service id had in world war ii and in korea. proud of the test work i had done, being able to contribute an orbital flight. if i wasnt able to continue that area, where could i do the best and do the best for the country. thats where i decided to run for public office. if youre ...

Stand. republicans and democrats. >> youre exactly right. it passed almost unanimously here in the house, passed by in the senate. the bill from 2013 was a rewrite of the bill that was originally passed in 2005 that the supreme court found unconstitutional basically saying that its okay to lie about combat service. so we went back and rewrote the law to make it much more narrow and withstand constitutional scrutiny by saying you have to hold yourself out to have received it and trying to gain so...