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I was there but i was three and a half. maybe you are real -- i wasn't quite as sharp maybe at 3 and a half. [away from microphone] >> well, me personally, i just vaguely remember, you know, kind of being little pieces of things. you know, leaving, getting in on a ship, a big ship. getting sick at sea. i think i fell and busted my lips. those are the memories i have as a 3 and a half-year-old, you see. >> coming back to the u.s.? >> there was a troops ship because there was so many casualties they put the widows and families on a troop ship and brought them back to hawaii. that's what i rememb...

After the president's handling of white supremacist rally in charlottesville. and you say you realized that my values were not his values. explain to me why that was a breaking point for you? >> you know, it's interesting. that was a breaking point for me because i was raised in new york city which is a multicultural place. i was raised by an immigrant. my grandfather comes from immigrant stock, and he had told me a story, and this is also in the new york article. he told me a story about coming back after the second world war where he defended another black fireman from new york. my grandfath...

In win-win situations and that is a fundamental difference with the past. >> that's where i was going, you reseen back in december after the president's handling at a white supremacist rally in charlottesville. you said you realize that my value were not his values. explain to me why that was a breaking point for you. >> you know, it's interesting. that was a breaking point for me because i was raised in new york city which is a multicultural place. i was raised by an immigrant. my grandfather comes from immigrant stock. he told me a story, and this is also in the new york article. he told me ...

Addition to a luxe lury liner. a cold war asset. she could be quickly converted from luxury liner to a troop ship and transport up to 15,000 troops, 10,000 miles without refueling. so her whole shape, the propeller was top secret. >> jon: for its speed and technology built in it fell victim to the jet engine. >> fewer people were willing to spend four to five days traveling to europe when they could get in a plane and travel for six or seven hours. >> she was retired from active duty in 1969 after only 17 years of service. today her walls, once adorned with beautiful artwork are bare. even the...

Knows what to do with this issue. the original rhetoric in the wake of 9/11 ran out of gas pretty quickly. it ran out of gas because of the attack invasion of iraq. if you look at the polls now, there is absolutely no appetite in the american public for sending ground troops over there, none. no matter what people say and no matter how much lindsey graham will personally pilot the troop ship from new york to cyprus or whatever, there is no appetite for another ground war in west asia. the polls say people want to do something very harsh but don't want to use ground troops and don't think incre...