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The Governor and First Lady of Virginia made a stop Monday morning in Altavista, visiting the National Center for Healthy Veterans to present the first-ever Spirit of Virginia award.
>> quite the shake up. good morning and happy new year to you too, fred. and welcome to the first day of a presidential election year. the ben carson campaign starting this year with new leadership. after weeks of struggling in the polls the campaign ended with a happy new year shake up. three top directors resigned yesterday. officials explaining the resignation as routine and not the signs of a campaign in a tail spin. and with only weeks to go until voting starts, carson said in a statement that it was necessary to invigorate my campaign with a strategy that more aggressively shares my visi...
My financial advisor told us that statistic. back then, 70% will end up bankrupt, divorced or homeless three years after leaving the game. all of us looked around and said it won't be me, not going to be us. now having the opportunity to go out and share the story and help some of the guys, they're asking like what do i do? >> mike: what do you tell them? what specific things can you tell them? >> i tell them they have to take ownership of their finances. for many professional athletes and just entertainers in general. people, the media, they know that they have people to take care of that. fi...
My men had given me as going away gift, with it loaded just wanting to use it on myself so. that why didn't you? what kept you from doing it? >> my wife and my kids and my family. i just couldn't bear to think about what they would find in that situation. what they would have to live with from their forward. now i think about the situation and i know there is so many single soldiers who are alone. who don't have that stop gap in their minds to say i'm not doing this. if i would have been alone, she would have left me. or if i would have been single with no family, i would have done it very eas...
To them? >> i say first of all, you're not alone. this is normal. normal reaction to abnormal events in life. we are here. there are people around you that love you. there are people that have been there before that have walked the tough road. whose family have decided to stay by them. and have made that commitment to forgive whatever is in the past. they should look inside and see if there is something they should deal with and know there is help out there and there is hope. you can get better. >> mike: i want to say thank you very much. i hope folks will read your book "two wars." julie, gre...