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His time with servicemen and women hasnt all been publicized, however. he has made numerous secret visits to walter reid to spend time with wounded vets. and when we spoke at normandy on the 70th anniversary of d-day, he was thinking of family as well, particularly his grandfather. >> its quite a distinction to be able to say that a family member fought in pattons third army. >> my grandfather passed away over 20 years ago. he would have been proud to see what he was a part of so long ago was no...

President trump paid tribute to him this morning, tweeting: "a beautiful funeral today for a real nyc hero, detective steven mcdonald. our law enforcement community has my complete and total support." detective mcdonald will be remembered as a symbol of faith. may god bless you and your family. >> soldiers of the 244th expeditionary combat brigade gather together to participate in their annual holiday formal ceremony, and they had the honor flight network to honor 93-year-old corporal russell be...

>> how many troops? >> im not going to tell you how many troops until i have the military experts and military tell me. i wouldnt just keep delaying. i would get the coalition and i would go. >> lets assume 10,000 arbitrary number could change. so thousand u.s. special forces ready to go. and you know and i have said this before. general patton in the third army, all right, using tanks and all of that could wipe out isis in a week. one week they are all through in syria. you go in, we know where...

>> im not going to tell you how many troops until i have the military experts and military tell me. i wouldnt just keep delaying. i would get the coalition and i would go. >> lets assume 10,000 arbitrary number could change. so thousand u.s. special forces ready to go. and you know and i have said this before. general patton in the third army, all right, using tanks and all of that could wipe out isis in a week. one week they are all through in syria. you go in, we know where theyre. there is no...

Almost always the case. >> theres also alex as tom just alluded to a village called st. marys which is about a 45-minute drive from colville sur mer here and a fairly large cemetery at st. marys, about 4,400 americans buried there, and if you go through the logs of those who were buried there, you find to your complete shock, that there are 20 sets of brothers buried side by side in that cemetery, and that was, the burial site is not far from where there are enormous tank battles that occurred, ...

Thats what the third army looks like. the blisters and the pain in my scalp area and down the back of my neck was intense. it would have been virtually impossible in that confined space with the rash to move to change radio frequencies. i would just stop and literally freeze up. i mean it hurt. i couldnt even get up and drive let alone teach somebody and be responsible in an airplane. when my doctor told me that shingles came from the chickenpox virus i was very surprised. for two weeks i sat up...

Never far away, in 1953 after a wave of guerrilla attacks from jordan he led the infamous unit 101 on a raid into a border could blowing up 45 houses killing 69 arab villagers. sharon said he thought the houses were empty. by june 1967 he was back at war. now a general leading his tank battalion to a crushing victory over the egyptians in the sinai during the six-day war. what he considered his greatest military achievement came in 1973 when the young war, orders and surrounded egypts third army...

Military career, sharon was identified as the lead restrained users of force. >> reporter: by the six-day war, he was general sharon, the most achievement was during the yom kippur in 1973. it caught israel off guard. sharon led his men across the suez canal and surrounded the egypt third army. it was a turning point in the war. >> he was against the command from the rear. he said the commander must be on top of it. >> reporter: as defense minister, he architected the occupation of lebanon. isra...

Governors, or generals. over the last century, only two before president obama have come directly from the legislature -- john f. kennedy and warren harding. does this matter? after all, most people think of john f. kennedy as a very good president, and at any rate a man who vigorously exercised executive power. is president obamas background the right one for an age in which negotiations are inevitable and compromise with the legislature is essential? or is he just too weak as a president? to a...

One day after the vote in frankfurt and its decided at the beginning of july a county gets in the modern day czech republic but in those days in austria and bohemia. bismarck has put his hopes in this man the pression chief of staff hellmuth fun mode his plan is for the prussians forces to move separately but strung together. he has divided the prussians forces into three almas they make faster progress separately but they can only win as one the third army falls behind only if it arrives in tim...