thought, maybe this isn't the best thing we ought to be talking about and it comes to a true american hero. >> martha: joey >> his father died on 9/11. you look at things that are so painful to lighten the load, that's where things are coming from. >> martha: what do you think about that? >> i respect the fact that his father was a firefighter on 9/11 and he did die. we can certainly recognize there's a lot of pain in his life on that but that doesn't give you the right to make that kind of comparison to somebody who has lost an eye serving his country. and as you pointed out, martha, this is a guy who continued serving even after a guy lost an eye. the military would have retired him on medical disability. he wanted to continue to be a