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Comes up with the code names for these missiles. there is no word this morning as to how the russian missile would withstand its american counterparts. we do know there is the maverick, hell fire, trident, peacekeeper. still to come, thousands will head to memphis next week to mark the 50th anniversary of martin luther king jr.'s assassination. we will talk to dr. king's son about his father's legacy and where we as a country are 50 years later. i'm never gonna be able to sleep with this cold.

With all his financial dealings and some not great successes there was running around without a security clearance and representing the u.s. there would be a freakout. >> there would be hell fire coming from republicans. >> the same people making the -- the people with security clearance top secret and secure compartment security clearance are the folks still making the national security decisions in the white house, the same folks making the intelligence decisions in the white house. the nsc, those folks have the correct clearances. let's not blow this out of proportion. >> let me point out a...

Said you were worried they were going to fall, not you. >> right. my job is to risk my life to save others. that's what i do. if it's my children and if it's my life i want somebody that's ready to risk their life to save me. so i'm going to give them that same respect when i go to work and put on the uniform, same with all the brothers and sisters i work with. when we put on our uniform we are ready to do whatever it takes to make sure that everybody gets home to their family. >> do you realize how special it is that you have an ability, a desi desire, a drive to keep going up a ladder that i...

Would, camouflage, right to come right through your area. and if they catch you off guard, they can kill you. we landed, we were getting all kinds of shell fire and everything. and i was talking to the guy right next to me on the beach. and all of a sudden he didn't answer me. i looked over and he was dead. he the hadn't even gruntled when the shell hit him. it xam close to getting me too. it took its toll. i mean, when i got back, my mother, she said you look like you've aged ten years. and i probably did. and i felt like i had aged maybe 40 years. because i went from a kid to an adult practi...

Shell fire. he never mentioned it. he never said, i've been hit. he just went about his business with his bandages, cutting people's trousers off with his surgical shears as if it was a normal thing to him. that's a hero. somebody like that. that's something admirable. >> 53 years later, it still touches a deep chord. >> absolutely. >> many gis came home with the idea they were spared so they could do something else with their lives. johnny holmes volunteers at a catholic church school. even before he retired from his job, he began doing the construction and maintenance work at his school and ...