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Where the servicer said, heres what were proposing as a modification of your mortgage. tim complied with that for a period of i think about two years. tim, correct me if im a little off there. but essentially then they said, well, it wasnt really a modification. were sorry but were foreclosing because you cant make the full payments that were required in the original mortgage. this story is repeated time and time again, where the mortgage modification program intended to help americans stay in t...

Joining me now is tim collette, father to aaron, who will be home from iraq this christmas. and senator chris murray from oregon who has been advocating for chris since june. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> tim, first, how have you been fighting this? what effort are you making to fight those that are trying to take your home? >> well, a few months back we filed a suit in federal court basically saying that they couldnt foreclose on our house. they did it in an illegal w...

Aaron that is having to face leaving their home. >> absolutely not. its not enough. we have the report from the 5,000 service members have been illegally foreclosed on. this is not just morally long, its against the law to foreclose on a service member. and i must say it disturbs me greatly that when major financial institutions were in trouble in new york, the government did backflips to save them but we have done so little, way too slow, way too little to help the working families in america s...

Party review because so many mistakes have been made thousands of times over and certainly in this particular case, i encourage the bank to reach out and stand by their original proposal of lowered payments and consider that a modification and make this right for tim and his family. >> tim, let me make it clear for the american people that are watching. you are not asking for a favor here. youre not asking, despite the fact that aaron has served his country for charity, you just want to be able ...