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>> jenna: i am savoring these kind words about annapolis when your son is at west point. it's a friendly rivalry. jon: do our viewers understand, jenna has someone special in her life who is a naval academy grad! jenna: can't mess that up, my fiance, absolutely, and i had all these questions about what we call the hat toss, in which he directed -- corrected me, they call covers, jon. covers. jon: it's properly known as the hat toss! but each academy does the hat toss, and it actually started -- there's actually sort of a historical reason this thing started, when these cadets graduate and take...

College and decide what they want to do next, they do have to go into service. that's what they get for the education that's provided to them at the academy. jon: in the case of my own son, he went into the west point service academy, knowing that the next nine years, really, 12 years of his life, were going to be spent in the service of the united states. because you'll be a cadel, you'll be four years in college, then five years of man today sorry -- mandatory service after that, plus three years in the reserve. i remember what i was thinking when i was 17 or 18 and it wasn't about, you know...

Write a little note and tuck it into the inner band of the hat, they may even leave a little money in the hat for those kids to find. jenna: how much? >> jon: i don't know. jenna: that sounds pretty good. jon: they're college students, basically, they're not extremely wealthy, so it might be $5, $10. jenna: even the words would mean so much at this point. they did really accomplish quite a bit. no easy task, of course, to get through the academy, by any stretch of the imagination. peter doocy is there, by the way, at the stadium, and peter, you've been able to take in the ceremony. bring us up...

These guys, 1006 graduate the, got to shake hands with secretary of defense robert gates and he gave a great speech before. we are going to talk about that in a second. we think that the hat toss is literally just seconds away. we think maybe about 30 seconds away, according to my producer, shayla. but there is just a lot of anticipation, and all built up to this. jon, as you mentioned, it's the visual and symbolic end to the four years at the academy. jon: i know that one of the reasons they toss the hats at west point, too, in the case of this past weekend's commencement, it was the chairman...

Peter doocy said we've been out there four hours so far with this graduation ceremony. we'll of course continue coverage and bring you that hat toss, as soon as it happens. we'll be right back.