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The enemy submarine. hit the target, destroying that target. then flew with the engine still on fire two miles to ditch the aircraft because he knew if he was captured he would be killed, tortured of by his captors who were notorious in the imperial japanese. he bailed out, so did thinks crew members. his parachute was d. not open and was killed. he survived. in the pacific ocean for four hours, picked up by u.s. submarine. again, so many of his fellow men, almost a lone survivor on that mission from world war ii. he was given the distinguished flying cross. i said 45 combat missions. it was a...

A skoch underneath what a president would offer. to what do you attribute that? is it this perspective you offer? was he able to reach more than just those in his party because of it? >> he was. i think the -- i think the -- what i mean when i say he learned perspective from his captivity and his combat service is he understood that reality's complicated. that fate and destiny are chancy things, and it enabled him to be unideological -- nonideological i guess is the better term. he was an umpire in american life when you think about the issues of the day. so you have this man who was the repub...

Armistice. >> it is very meaningful for me and my family to be here so manies yeamany years after my father's service. to be honest, by dad did not talk about his combat service until we were all grown up. it was a lot of tough fighting. he spent time on pork chop hill and mt. baldy. the general and his team were kind enough to share information about the battles with us. i think in some ways, my dad might be smiling from heaven to see that the sacrifices that he and other american soldiers and south korean soldiers made here now passed on to my generation has not changed our commitment to the...

And do some other things. thought about politics and government work sometimes, but i had no idea that i ever would be able to do that myselfment you know, i thought about that since i was a kid. i was proud of my combat service i'd had in world war ii and in korea. proud of the test work i had done, being able to contribute an orbital flight. if i wasn't able to continue that area, where could i do the best and do the best for the country. that's where i decided to run for public office. if you're interested in the senate or across the breadth and depth of everything in this country. >> when ...

Stand. republicans and democrats. >> you're exactly right. it passed almost unanimously here in the house, passed by in the senate. the bill from 2013 was a rewrite of the bill that was originally passed in 2005 that the supreme court found unconstitutional basically saying that it's okay to lie about combat service. so we went back and rewrote the law to make it much more narrow and withstand constitutional scrutiny by saying you have to hold yourself out to have received it and trying to gain something materially beneficial to yourself. if what i heard about this case in pennsylvania is true...