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KYW 60 Minutes May 3, 2015

One of the nations most treasured memorials now had to close. It would take a superman to put it back together again. But in fact, it was clark kent in a suit and tie, armed with just a blackberry and a passion for american history. A shorter version of it. Safer he is david rubenstein, and he spent hundreds of millions of his own fortune to help save the monument and some of the other great symbols of american democracy. Kroft 60 minutes is constantly on the lookout for places weve never been before. So when our late colleague bob simon heard about a magical place in the hebrides islands off the coast of scotland known for making some of the great whiskies in the world, well, the story spoke to him. Simon laughs cheers. We get literally thousands upon thousands of single malt tourists coming here. They come from all over the world just to set foot on islay. Simon to study it . No, to drink it. Im steve kroft. Im lesley stahl. Im morley safer. Im bill whitaker. Im scott pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. Sometimes romantic. There were tears in my eyes. And tears in my eyes. And so many Little Things that we learned were really the biggest things. Through it all, we saved and had a retirement plan. And someone who listened and helped us along the way. Because we always knew that someday the future would be the present. Every someday needs a plan. Talk with us about your retirement today. Bring us your aching and sleep deprived. Bring us those who want to feel well rested. Aleve pm. The only one to combine a safe sleep aid. Plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. Be a morning person again with aleve pm. Outshine frozen snacks are a blast of juicy refreshment. So delicious youd think theyre bad for you but theyre not. Made with real fruit or fruit juice theyll leave you ready to outshine. Dont just snack. Snack brighter. Keep up with everyday messes with the help of roomba from irobot. 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In june, the night his mother sat up worrying, 16yearold Naftali Fraenkel and two friends were kidnapped, and later, shot by palestinian terrorists. Rachelle fraenkel said the eulogy at a national service. Rachelle fraenkel the eulogy was turning to my son and talking to him, and to the people that were searching so hard and that were praying so hard, and recognizing that were going to live on with other blessings we have in our lives and that this is something well keep inside of us. Its how special he was to us. Pelley the next day, israeli terrorists kidnapped a palestinian boy, same age. Mohammad abu khdeir was burned alive. Within days, it was war. And not in 50 years were so many children about to die in the holy land. Palestinian rockets, plentiful but unguided, punched wildly into israel, inflicting fear but limited damage. Israel struck gaza with digital domination, blasting neighborhoods into seismic collapse. We flew a drone over part of gaza to comprehend the scale. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says civilian deaths in gaza came to 1,492. Six civilians were killed in israel during the battle. Israel lost one child, gaza lost more than 500. Scott anderson if you look at the average tenyearold child in gaza today, theyve been through now three large scale conflicts, and its a pervasive climate of fear of the unknown of whats going to happen next. Pelley Scott Anderson cares for a quartermillion children in gaza in 252 schools. After 21 years in the u. S. Army, he became Deputy Director of the u. N. Relief and works agency which has sustained gaza with schools, homes, jobs, and food for seven decades. What is it like to be a child in gaza . Anderson very difficult. They have no idea what its like to have electricity 24 hours a day. They have no idea what its like to have heating all the time. People have lost their family members. Their homes have been destroyed. Schools have been destroyed. That takes a toll on children. Pelley during the war, his classrooms became kitchens and shelters for more than half a million gazans. Some of the u. N. Schools were attacked, and this past monday a u. N. Investigation found that israel hit seven schools killing 44 people. But the u. N. Also blamed Palestinian Militants for hiding weapons in three vacant u. N. Schools that were not hit. Anderson this conflict is probably the most widely talked about, widely written about, and least understood conflict in history. Pelley this history begins in 1947, when refugees from israels creation compressed into a strip 32 miles by seven. In 2006, gazans elected a government led by hamas, which the u. S. Says is a terrorist group. Israel responded by sealing the borders and bankrupting gazas economy. Hamas bu blockade for trade and terror. This summer, hamas attacked israel to lift the blockade and israel invaded gaza to destroy the tunnels. 66 Israeli Soldiers were killed. But in the end, as usual nothing really changed. sirens wail in israel, air raid sirens are as familiar to children as the lunch bell. In gaza, a new generation is rising on the ruin of the last and neither child knows the other. Jim gordon does it seem strange that i would work in gaza and in israel, too . Yeah. Gordon yeah. Pelley dr. Jim gordon is an american psychiatrist working both sides. Hes a professor at georgetown in washington, and director of the center for mindbody medicine. These israeli kids spent the war scrambling for shelter. They cant or wont talk about it. But dr. Gordon has another way in. Gordon draw yourself with your biggest problem, whatever that means to you. Okay, do you understand . They come in often frozen, but then they do the drawing and the drawing is of a destroyed house, of bloody bodies in the street. Pelley only a few hamas rockets were lethal, but 3,000 were launched, and in israel today, their arc, on paper, hits targets of the imagination a home destroyed, the wounded in an ambulance. Rachelle fraenkels six surviving children were all within range. Fraenkel anybody that lives under missiles lives in te if you know youre five seconds away from needing to choose which child to lie over to protect or to grab to the shelter. You cant imagine what kind of life it is. Gordon for these children, its as if the bombs were still falling now. So theyre just as anxious theyre just as likely to be aggressive, theyre just as fearful and withdrawn. And the parts of the brain that are concerned with thoughtful decisionmaking, with compassion for others, are shut down. So youre. Youre just like a scared animal in that state. Pelley one scene these kids cant picture is dr. Gordon just five miles away, in gaza. The kids in gaza are wearing down the same red crayons. Azar jendia, nine years old, shared her pictures with us. Azar jendia translated this is the building where my father was bombed. It collapsed on my father and two uncles. Half of my fathers head was gone. Pelley show me the next picture. This is you . Jendia this is me. I drew myself inside a grave, a martyr next to my father. Pelley and this is a coffin that youre in . Jendia yes. Gordon they wish, if only i had died, then the family would have been together, and we wouldve all been together. And they do wonder. And thats one of the things that our groups help them find out is, why am i here . Why was i spared . Pelley three days a week week after week, they draw talk, draw again. After sketching their problem, they picture a solution. This came from a nineyearold boy. Gordon the solution to this pain and this loss is that he wants himself to become a martyr, a suicide bomber. And so what we see here is a suicide belt, and you see it around his waist. Pelley who was he going to bomb . Gordon going to bomb israelis. Going to bomb the people who killed his father. Pelley that answer to what do you want to be when you grow up . May be fatal to the future because of the inescapable demographics arising on every apocalyptic playground. Thats the thing that really gets you about gaza is the enormous number of children in the neighborhoods. About two Million People live in gaza, and it turns out about half of them are under the age of 18. A local university did a survey after the war and found that 20 of the kids witnessed a death in their family. 35 saw destruction at or near their home, and 40 are suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. We found these children in the remains of their home. Theyre the grandchildren of ahmed karim audha. The loss of his lifes work has broken even his voice. Before the blockade, audha was a successful contractor. He built this home, in the arab way, to hold all of his generations. His five sons lived here with their families. 50 relatives in all fled before the crosshairs settled and a missile vaulted from a helicopter. Hes saying, even the animals have better lives. Our suffering is worse. Can we not have a home to live in . What is it like for the children to be living here . He told us, things are worse after the war than during the war. They wake up in the middle of the night horrified. We dont know whats wrong with them, but we try to calm them down. Gordon we put all the drawings down here. Pelley dr. Gordon told us, with enough time, about 80 can see beyond war. Azar, who colored herself dead came through the therapy with a dream. Jendia translated my wish is to become a heart doctor because, after the war, a lot of people had heart problems so i want to treat them. Pelley it looks like there are many people who need your help. Jendia yes. Pelley how did you start to feel better . How did you get from the first picture to the last picture . Jendia the doctors helped me change, helped with my problems, and helped get the sadness out of my heart. Pelley we dont want you to have the wrong idea about gaza. While many neighborhoods were ground to powder, much of gaza city is alive again. And a recent poll shows that hamas is still favored by a slim majority. Is it cold in summer . Pelley Scott Andersons u. N. Schools, for the most part, have returned to teaching. What are the needs here right now . Anderson the numberone need is to find a way to lift the blockade and restore Economic Opportunity here in gaza. Pelley whats at stake . Anderson the futures at stake. You know, theres been a lot of militant activity in gaza since ive been here, a lot of rockets being fired, a lot of younger men joining the factions. You know, my personal opinion is thats more because of lack of opportunity than any great desire to fight and die. You know, if they had jobs, if they had stability, if they had families, i think theyre less likely to engage in that kind of activity. But with unemployment at nearly 50 of the population in gaza, unfortunately, the factions are the ones that pay. Pelley one of the things that you said during the war wase can teach our children that we want to live in peace. How do you go about doing that . Fraenkel i have no easy answer for that. My children, their brother was murdered by a hamas terrorist. And its very easy to let them grow up hating arabs, and i make a point of not doing that. Pelley a lot of people would forgive you. Fraenkel yeah, its not a matter of forgiveness, its a price you pay when you grow up on hate. Its not somng to. To pay. I want my children believing in a world that has a lot of good in it. Pelley the price paid in a 68year conflict is inherited as a debt, one generation to the next. 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In fact for some, relief starts in just 15 minutes. Excedrin®. Wow, that was fast. Safer think about it beyond your income taxes, how much money would you give to help the government . For one wall street titan, the answer is hundreds of millions of dollars. David rubenstein is the all american at age 65, a self made billionaire whos pledging a good part of his fortune to save americas history. When an idea strikes him, he just might write a check for say, 15 million or 20 million. Among his recipients the Washington Monument, Thomas Jeffersons home monticello, and just last week, the iwo jima memorial. And hes buying up rare Historical Documents, preserving them for generations to come. This is inside the Washington Monument the moment an earthquake struck washington d. C. , in 2011. One of the nations most treasured memorials now had to close. It would take a superman to put it back together again. But in fact, it was clark kent in a suit and tie, armed with just a blackberry and a passion for american history. David rubenstein its a monument to our first president and to the revolutionary war general. Safer how did he manage to pull it off . Not with muscles but with money, lots of money. Rubenstein its a shorter version of it. Safer our clark kent is david rubenstein. When he heard about the damage he offered to pay the 15 million it would take to repair it. Isnt that what government is supposed to do . Rubenstein well, the government doesnt have the resources it used to have. We have gigantic budget deficits and large debt. I think private citizens need to pitch in. Cochair of the campaign for the National Mall david rubenstein. Safer congress, not wanting to be shown up by a single patriotic american, ended up offering to split the bill and the monument reopened to much fanfare last spring. applause hes so far spent over 50 million on rare Historical Documents like original copies of the declaration of independence and the emancipation proclamation, which now hangs in the oval office. And hes looking to spend millions more to restore National Monuments like the Lincoln Memorial and the homes of the founding fathers. Rubenstein in honor of George Washington, we built the Washington Monument. Safer we met up with him at mt. Vernon, George Washingtons home, where he gave us a tour and an impromptu history lesson, which led inevitably to the founders teeth, or absence thereof. Rubenstein George Washington only had one tooth, and he used that one tooth to kind of hold in his dentures. And they were called wooden teeth, but not because they were wood they were animal teeth, but he had a doctor in new york who was named dr. Greenwood and it was shortened to wooden teeth. What they do is they take animal teeth, put them together in a denture. But you need something to hook it onto, so he had his one tooth. And thats why youll never see a picture of him with his mouth open, because didnt look good. Safer youre somewhat of a George Washington scholar. Rubenstein well, i wouldnt say a scholar. But id say a fan. Safer why did you choose him . Rubenstein as it was said at his funeral, he was first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Safer unlike most multi billionaires, rubenstein doesnt have a foundation and personally oversees each gift from his modest washington office. How do you make the judgment because you dont have a staff correct . Rubenstein i dont have a staff. But i generally look at things where my money will make a difference. And in patriotic philanthropy, i. I think i can do some things. Because not as many people are doing things in medical research or other kinds of areas like that. Safer but you seem to make these decisions spurofthe moment. Rubenstein sometimes, the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So i generally try to do what i think is right, and sometimes i make mistakes. Safer care to talk about your mistakes . Rubenstein it would take more than 60 minutes. Safer rubensteins foray into patriotic philanthropy began on a whim when, on a business trip to new york, he heard the last privately held copy of the 800yearold british magna carta would be auctioned off the next day and would most likely leave the country. Rubenstein sent his wallet into action. Rubenstein the head auctioneer came in and said, you just bought the magna carta. Who are you . We dont know who you are. And i explained. And they said, okay, it can be yours, if you have the money. You do have the money for this . I said yes. And they said, okay, you can leave the side door, nobody ever know, or theres 100 reporters who want to know who bought it. And i said, i will go out and talk to them, and tell them that im giving it to the country, in effect, as a down payment on my obligation to give back to the country. What are the symbols on the seal . Safer beyond the 21 million purchase price, rubenstein built a multimilliondollar center at the National Archives to showcase the document that served as the inspiration not only for our bill of rights but f

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