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An account of the American takeover of the Philippines, beginning with the US defeating Spain, and ending with it brutally suppressing Filipino resistance, written by Stephen Kinzer.

Your pensions? >> i feel like we're being betrayed. we volunteered on the basis of a promise that is now being broken and my friends that are career soldiers don't feel like it's worth staying in if the government can't keep the promises that were made to us. all the future generations are watching and they're seeing the way we're being treated. people aren't going to enlist to join if they know the government isn't going to keep the promises made to us. >> bobby, how do you feel? >> i think it's kind of crazy. we don't get paid that much money in the first place. it ain't like we're making to...

>> sure. alex, we got a lot of people who work in washington on capitol hill and are in positions of power and who voted for this budget that passed last night. what's your message to them about your situation? >> i feel like they're telling the young 18-year-olds and 19-year-olds that they've lost their youth because they've seen their best friends get killed and stuff like that, that it's not worth it, you know. i mean, it's a complete betrayal to me. they sit there and i lost both my legs on my fourth tour in afghanistan and they sit there and tell me that they appreciate my service and how...

Going to do is i might not be able to work here before long. that part-time job i'm doing now is going to go away to subsidize my way i'm getting from retirement. it will go away and then i'm going to be really in bad shape and not able to make it. i don't know what i'm going to do right now. we'll have to wait and see. >> they did pass it last night and it sounds like it's already on the president's desk. he'll probably sign it later today and how that impacts all the vets, we'll have to wait and see. it doesn't look good. staff sergeant alex and his uncle, bobby snow, gentlemen, thank you ve...

For us to be able to try to help the state out. he's not willing to work with us. so, whether ae we do our backs against the wall. we're going to keep out fighting and that's what we plan on doing. >> that that's what we are doing. >> i have a question quick from bobby snow on twitter writes, she says, don, $7.25 an hour isn't much but if we had to one month out of the year at that wage it might keep us more humble and in touch with others. what do you say to that? first, lorraine. >> well, we already did that. you know. we did it for 18-plus months. not just one positive. now he's saying $7.2...