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Time to say thanks to our service men and women p.m. we want to introduce you to an army veteran who has returned to college at 84. his aim, helping veterans back from america's more recent wars. fredricka whitfield has that. >> reporter: he's a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a war hero. but retirement is not in the cards. >> well, you can make a profession of deciding where to go for breakfast and you read the local newspaper and one day runs into another day. so that's not for me. >> reporter: so now at 84 years of age, jack is doing something else. >> look at that campus. i don't kno...

Tremendous -- 89 some odd parties competing for 325 seats. the problem will be, can they govern the country? can they form a government after this election? that's really the question in my mind. >> okay. if these elections are deemed successful, in your judgment, how do we then view the whole iraq experience there, this war experience? i know it's going to be left to historian s ultimately, but fro your vantage point? >> we've had 36,000 wounded and killed. we've spent arguably $500 billion at a minimum. the question will be, a year from now, is iraq a governing state that isn't a threat to i...

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Mccain's war experience which was horrible, as everyone knows. he was shot down, he was kept a prisoner of war for 5 1/2 years, he was tortured, he refused to be released early, earlier than others because i had father was a well-known admiral. those things are obvious. trump says i don't respect people who are captured. trump, of course, got out of draft citing bone spurs. so this offended mccain, his family, the american legion, so trump was deliberately not invited to what was meant to be a show of bipartisanship. but absolutely a political commentary on the trump presidency. >> it did seem...

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