transition, the one part of the president's speech i really, really liked. i thought overall it was a great performance but this part that when the first lady came out and introduced him, i mean, she had a really good understanding of the unemployment challenges the veterans will face. she really understood the role that military families took in thanking him and the president said that your sacrifice, you know, isn't going to be forgotten and you're going to get when you earned, when he said you earned it. that's true. a lot of republicans, 25 of them in the u.s. senate, voted against the new g.i. bill. 15% unemployment, no better thing than we can do is get the people skills to be employable. they are saying you earned these -- these things in our society. earned the right to go to college and the fact that the president said they earned it, probably the nicest thing that i've heard since i came home because we've earned our place in society. >> to said least. you'll get the last word on this, matt, but america embarrassed itself and shamed itself in many ways after the vietnam war and the nature and the manner in which it treated