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This group. to the five honorees and your families tonight, thank you. as a group in your own ways you brought people together. you've made us laugh, you've made us cry, you've made us sing, you've made us dance. and generations of families have shared the love of your work. and our nation is stronger, more dynamic, and more vibrant because of you. you know, i won't go into it, but as i've been in and out of afghanistan and iraq over 27 times, i think, and going to these war zones, be up in the conar valley, and you'd hear our music being played for our service members, for real. the dining ha...

I sat down with a young private in the 82nd from the indian reservation who would tell me what he did every day. i was in awe. and to see what they had in front of them, then to go back there in december, to go throughout helmand with the marines to see what they have accomplished, it's nothing short of amazing. what we don't want to do is lose the gains we've gotten. now, we've disagreed from time to time on issues. we would have taken into account recommendations from our generals. we've been skeptical about negotiations with the taliban, especially while they're shooting at us. we want to s...

>> martha? let's keep our eye on the ball. the reason i've been in and out of afghanistan and iraq 20 times. i've been up in the conar valley. i've been in that whole country mostly in a helicopter, sometimes in a vehicle. the fact is, we went there for one reason to get those people who killed americans. al qaeda. we decimated al qaeda central. we have eliminated osama bin laden. that was our purpose. and, in fact, in the meantime, what we said we would do, we would help train the afghan military. it's their responsibility to take over their own security. that's why with 49 of our allies in a...