Please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Before we started, there are a few people in the audience i would like to recognize tonight. I understand that there is a large group. From garys families. Standwe ask everyone to so that we can thank you all for being here tonight . [applause] also here with us this evening, our congressional medal of honor recipient, robert friend, one of the last surviving tuskegee airmen. Good to have you with us this evening. [applause] [indiscernible] thank you so much, we appreciate having you here. [applause] melissa and a very special thank you to lori bakker, sitting right here, the secular director of the incident hero foundation, who donated the exoskeleton to gary. [applause] so, there are many honorable and procedures things that we you to do here as employees of the Ronald Reagan foundation, hosting events were sitting cabinet members, hosting debates, last night we had president george w. Bush year, but for me getting to know and meet our countrys heroes outweighs anything else i have the privilege to do. Getting to know tonights speaker has been the highlight of my career. This event happened because we were looking for speakers who could tie into our interactive. For those who have not seen the exhibition, its a largescale highly immersive exhibit that showcases how Science Fiction can become reality. It shows how modernday technology has been influenced by Popular Culture from the 50s. Changing the ways that we live, work, move, connect, and play. So, how could we find a speaker that epitomizes this . We ringcommended tonights speaker to the library saying heres a guy literally wearing a wearable robot. What better speaker could we find . I found this quote from a 2013 the company that makes the exoskeleton. Science technology, helping people to walk again who otherwise couldnt. Leading to tonights guest. , u. S. Army, retired. He served as a member of the armys elite 160th special operations regiment. As we saw in the video just a few moments ago, while conducting operations in iraq is helicopter suffered a catastrophic mechanical failure and crash landed. As a result of the hard landing, he suffered a broken back and was paralyzed below the waist. He has continued to serve as a simulator flight instructor. To 2013, when he became the First Military recep ian of an skeleton for home use. At 2014 he had completed over 200,000 using the device. As we just saw in the video, and of not sure about you, i was in the back room crying. A few months ago he walked his wife down the aisle. As president reagan once said, veterans are the heroes among us , let us resolve to live up to their example. I can do give no better persons example that i would like to live up to. Ladies and gentlemen, gary linfoot, with his wife, mary. [applause] [cheers and applause] gary thank you. Oh, my legs are shaking. [laughter] gary well, good evening. Thank you for joining us. It is an honor and a pleasure to be here at the Ronald Reagan library and have the opportunity to speak with you. Celebrateke to [indiscernible] , who celebrated his 97th birthday last week. Hope i look that good when im your age. I would also like to recognize lori baker for producing ok . That film you saw. She did a fabulous job on it. I think it really captures the what were doing. Tonight im going to tell you a story. My hope is that you hear the story of a family that has overcome difficulties and met challenges head on, never backed down, never gave up. Its a story of hope. Its our story. The life and lives of my family were changed forever on may 31. I have been in the army for 21 years and had been a pilot for 19 years. In the 160th for 11 years. I had completed one, rotation and following 9 11 i was on my 861 daystion to erect. All told. I was the senior flight lead, First Battalion and we were known as the six guys. Our mission was to provide Close Air Support for the best special Operations Forces the world had ever known. I was at the apex of my career. There was no other job in the world i wanted. I was in my element and exactly right needed to be. If you recall, the nation had been at war from a seven years of that. He had been in iraq for five years. 2008 was the end of a very successful surge. We had them on the run. For my family, the constant deployments to iraq for five times the year had become somewhat routine. I would tell my wife and kids could buy and drive the compound and be gone for the next 90 days. Missing holidays, birthdays, special occasions, sports, life went on at home without me. Deployed i could think about was being home again. When i was home i could think about was getting back to a rack. Years iin all of those never really quite made it back home. In 2008. Was our life that was the routine. Up aoing to loosen this little bit, because i can hardly breathe. [laughter] gary i call this my girdle. Gets my gut sucked in. [laughter] yeah, im good, thank you. That was the routine for us. But this night was anything but routine. T of may, 2008, someone ill look at day and completed some pt, like i always did, showered, and preflight to my age six. I was updated by the crew chiefs on the status of our aircraft and i walked over to the joint Operations Center to get a report on the daily operations of aircraft and a warning on the mission that night. It was shaping up to be a routine night as related to our french counterparts in the joint task force. Around 10 00 we departed for the airbase and headed for a Mission Sports site in baghdad. The brits were always fun to work with. Although we share a common language, they were often difficult to understand, at times requiring people to translate into american for us. [laughter] night hadbriefer this a very heavy accent and at the end of the briefing i turned over to my guys and i said a, did anybody understand a word that he just said . Everyone shook their head, no, we had not. That we were able to get good clarification and were good to go. The mission that night was simple and one that we had literally performed hundreds of times. The brits were flying to an American Forward Operating base south of baghdad there the ground force would link up for American Fighting vehicles and armored humvees and ride to the objective. They would leave the vehicles at the vehicle dropoff and quietly, hopefully undetected, walk up to the objective, where they would surround the target building. The person of interest, the target that night, the person they wanted to detain, for us it was really low hanging fruit at that point. Now, things got loud, meaning they had the assault on the building and we would be called in to provide Close Air Support. To ourired, proceeded planned holding area. When we took off i use the power of the heavily laden egg shaped 649. I was loaded with rockets. 800 pounds of fuel. Given the maximum gross rate, the 650 horsepower engine easily came to life with a rotor blade turning the hot night air into submission and we left. At 300 feet i called out the departure using the callsign of havoc and the dogs of war slipped off into the night. After takeoff we heard a strange noise coming from the rear of our aircraft. It was a loud blowing noise of sorts. Unknown to us it was the first and only indication of failure of the engine driveshaft. Discussed the i sound and, unable to determine the source, with all outfit instrumentation reading normal, no unusual vibrations, we convince ourselves that the heater had opened somehow. We continued our mission. Eventually the noise pretty much all but ceased. June 1, midnight, zero illumination, visibility was three miles with blowing dust, wind out of the north, 20 to 25 knots. We had just arrived in our planned holding area and were at a speed of 70 knots indicated, heading 180. Suddenly there was a muffled but loud explosion and a sort of pop coming from the rear of the aircraft. Driveshaft to the the engine, it disintegrated and we lost the power to the main rotor. Leftnt violently to the and we fell from the sky. I entered whats called an auto rotation and we put the aircraft the hard left turn. I scanned the instruments and adjusted the collective control us simultaneously calling the radio, making a mayday, picking up the landing area. We were too heavy and falling fast. This was going to be a hard landing. My last memory of the landing was seeing the blur of the ground rushing up through the night vision goggles. I remember hearing the warning of low rotor and seeing the low rpm on the vid. I told my copilot, greg, to brace for impact. And then we hit. Total time was less than 10 seconds. The impact itself was very surreal. If you have ever been in a violent highspeed automobile crash, you can pretty much relate to what it felt like. After the sound of the aircraft crushing the rotor blades hit the ground and the tail section aircraft,from the there was an eerie silence. A fragment of bone at pushed into my spinal cord. I felt mywas instant, legs fall to the left. I smelled a strong odor of jet fuel. We may be on fire, yelled the directed that we needed to get out. With my right hand i grabbed the door frame through the shattered that time i was at realized they could not move my legs. Then the pain kicked in. Greg had suffered a broken back and concussion. To this day he has no memory of the crash or the events leading up to the accident. Greg is able to egress and was lying in pain in front of the aircraft. We had missed landing in the water and the canal by only feet. I grabbed my rifle and wanted to boost our signature ship sister ship to say that we were alive and warm and for approaching personnel to stay away. Greg heard the shots and he was knocked somewhat loopy. He thought we were being shot at. Areelled, gary, they shooting at us. I told him it was only me. I stopped shooting. Then i tried to contact ship overhead in the embedded radio with no success. At this time i checked my legs hoping to find out they had just been broken. They were both intact. At this point i knew i had suffered a spinal injury. Racedhoughts and images through my mind and they told me the same thing. This was going to suck. After about 10 minutes my friend appeared out my door and asked if we had been shot down and i said i believed it was mechanical failure. Steve quickly triaged myself and aircrafthe radioed the to get us. In the short time toolbar blackhawks with about 20 rangers secure the crash site. Greg was sent back to evacuate and not wait for the Pararescue Team to cut me out. After theone hour crash, which really is remarkable, if you consider everything, less than an hour i was on my way to the first of several hospitals headed to the United States. A nurse hand me the phone and said go ahead, call your wife. I called mary. Thats me. Gary thats her. Chief of staff. [laughter] gary so, mary had just walked in the front door after a long day at the ball field with our daughter when the phone rang and she was surprised to hear my voice. I asked her of anyone from the unit had contacted her. She said no and immediately thought that something bad had i told her i had been in effect crashed and broke my back. Mary lisette and i would live with a life of back pain but really i was ok. I told her i cannot move my legs. She mainly went into crisis mode and had the frame of mind to tommy that the talk to the kids to tell the they did was ok. He would be a sleepless night for her and the kids. Im sorry. Asked if this meant is that heading back to iraq again. Hours i was on my way to Walter Reed Army medical center. The first the three hospitals with roots in spend the first three months in recovery and rehab. With married by my side when began our journey together. Injuries is a unique and complex injury. Known to injuries are ever exactly the same. The effects of the injuries i had never thought of that would soon discover. Beyond the loss of movement to my legs there was the loss of bladder and bowel control, sexual, dignity. Depression is common in the paint never goes away. That pain never goes away. It is a cruel injury. Those three months removed from walter reed to tampa, florida, into the Shepherd Center in atlanta. All the while discovering more about the injury and the skills we needed to survive this new normal of being a paraplegic. I was focused on recovery and getting home while mary was focused on what we needed a we are at home to include all men vehicle modifications, special equipment, continued therapy, in the list went on and on. They made a pretty good team. The next year was all about learning the reality of being a paraplegic. Many hours coordinating with doctors to get things done. We had to learn how to patiently navigate through an immense bureaucracy. In january of 2010, i was medically retired from the army with 23 years of service. I began to work as a flight instructor, teaching new aviators to the one 60th. That 16 160th. , that timeat summer of my life as a blur of change. I believe i fell into depression. I definitely know i took out a lot of my anger and frustration on mary. I was angry. Ashamed of what i had become. I lost my selfworth as a man, as a husband, and as a father. Being an elite special operations attack helicopter pilot, the alpha male and peter leader of remarkable warriors to someone who could do very little for himself. In my mind i was a failure. I think i did a good job of covering it up. I kept a smile on my face and a good attitude. I want to work, joked around, trying to exercise. I tried to cover the pain and do my best not to complain. On the inside i died a little more each day. Injury was beating me down and it was a death of 1000 cuts. Prayed to god he would take it from me. End. Ay it would just i wanted it all to be over. I have been to the edge, stared into the dark of this. This is what i know. We are all here for a short amount of time, but we are here with and for a purpose. I truly believe that god has a plan for all of us. If it were not true, we would not be here now. Because ofthe crash my superior flying skills, although if you ask me [laughter] gary i will tell you how good i am , and how goodlooking. God still has a purpose for me. He is not done with me yet. It is for this reason i chose in my family chooses to continue to fight the other. We have never given up. What i pretty got and told him i cannot do this, it was as if i heard him say, thats right, you cant do this alone. Thats why i have given you your wife and children and family and friends, and you have me. Believe the saying that god does not give you more than you can handle is incorrect. He will give you more than you can handle, but it is with him and through his strength that you will overcome and thrive. Mary and i made a conscious choice to move on and live out our lives to the best. Not only to ourselves but to our family and friends. We owe it to those we have lost. I have been given a Second Chance that many of my friends and fellow warriors did not get. I owe it to those who did not come home to live a life. There have been many difficulties on this path. I will not lie, it is been a tough road. In the end of believe it will all be worth it. Benefit from the kindness and generosity many people, end up in a recipient of hightech robotic equipment. Thatptical wheelchair climbs stairs and balances on two wheels and standing at a height of six feet. In waziristann before you tonight in which i stand before you tonight. Doing things i never thought possible. Talking to young kids about advanced robotics and hopefully planting that small seed in the mind of a child that will one day blossom into an idea that may change the world and may even when it help paralysis. We successfully completed an fda trial of the exoskeleton. Is now available for veterans through the v. A. We demonstrated that which not long ago was thought to be impossible. To paraplegic has fundamentally been able to stand and walk again. I was honored to be the first pair of collegiate to walk around the statute of liberty. 2015, the First Time Since the accident i was able to stand with mary by my side for the National Anthem in front of thousands of people at a race in bristol, tennessee. I will never take for granted the Little Things in life. The Little Things like being able to get out of the bed in the morning and use the bathroom in less than two minutes, or the ability to climb three steps to not been a neighbors door, for stand and hug my wife and kids. These things were lost to me. Some of them on getting back. As you saw in the video, i was able to walk my beautiful daughter down the aisle on her wedding day. Here is where he cant make contact with her because i will get choked up. I will stare right here. [laughter] gary i would offer the following advice. Trust in the lord, give thanks and remember each day is a gift. Get up every morning and find your purpose. Rewrite your story if needed, and discover what your why is. Why am i here . What is my purpose . It may not be what you thought it was but you have a purpose. Discover what it is and pursue it with everything you have. Surrender self of people you love, people who support you and will challenge you. These words of encouragement for each other. You never know what the simple words of encouragement will do for somebody. You may change their life. Bad things happen to good people. Throughout life at some point we will all face tragedies and hardships. Respectfully i say get over it. Ultimately you are responsible for your own happiness. You have to move on. No one ever said life would be easy. Play the card you have been dealt to the best of your ability. In the end it will have been worth it. Lastly, never, ever quit. Thank you. [applause] [crowd noise] [applause] to the left. Thats better. [laughter] [applause] we cant think you enough for sharing the remarkable story with us. Must give them one more round of applause. [applause] i know you have questions. I will try to take up too much time. Can we get a tissue appear . Up here . It squeezes the snot out of you. [laughter] i think watching you walk in , can you explain how the exoskeleton actually works . The it is basically replacement of bone and muscles of my body. If its around the outside of my body and mechanically electrically it will stand me up. I will take control of it. I will activate it until i want to start moving. The way i walk is much like you would walk if you are going to step off with your left foot. You put your weight on your right foot and then you shift your foot forward. I do the same thing. When the device detects im within same parameters it will activate the step and i will continue to repeat that process. As long as i am shifting my weight and my cga, it will continue to work. Is very intuitive. It is strange. I cant feel anything below my navel. A is kind of like balancing broom on the tip of your finger in a way. Once i was able to trust the machine would stand me up and not let me drop to the ground it was just a matter of learning where those safe points were. It did about three days to learn it. Afterng the device a couple of weeks or a month it was easy. I have seen videos and your son is helping you. How much are they actually doing in the movement . Y once shes dancing out she stands me up, tsipras control over to me and then she is therefore safety purposes. If i can get the crutches catch myself, thats how i do it. If im in a situation where im unable to get the crutches back, she can push me back into place. Do you know how you came to be the first person to receive and i so sell it in and exoskeleton . Gary i will try to give you the cliff notes version. I have been involved in an organization. They are involved annually in an event hosted by American Airlines called sky ball down in dallasfort worth. Have a different theme. In the past is welcoming home power world war ii veterans or Vietnam Veterans or gulf war veterans. This particular year they were highlighting how robotics and technology were helping and influencing the lives of returning veterans. That was on the board that year, his company had just made a major investment into xo bionics. Beset it would be great if we can bring one of these devices out to demonstrate it at sky ball. Jim,the director the director, said i know just the guy he will use. Yes if i would be interested in getting into the exoskeleton. I sent absolutely. I flew to california and got trained over three days. About a month and a half later i walked out on stage. On howthe limitations long you can use it or things you wish you could do but cant do yet . Gary the major limiting factor right now is battery power. That will always be an issue with devices like this. Depending on how much unlocking, i can probably get an hour and a half out of one set of batteries. Then we can switch out the batteries. In total we can get about four hours. The battery life with the two sets. To adevice is limited flat, level surface without much of a rise. Again handle about three degrees of rise. To go up and down stairs at this point. Those are the major limiting factors right now. I wish i could run, climbed trees. In time, right . It will keep getting smaller. I have to ask the question. Some people name their boats or cars. That he named the exoskeleton . Gary we have. Mary meet newman. Gary newman, give you remember newman from seinfeld. Here with president bush. He mentioned you met him before. Can you explain how that happened . Shortly after returning from our first combat operations in afghanistan we came home. This was in april or may of 2002. J sock put on a capabilities exercise for the president. This was really president bushs first exposure and detailed briefing and demonstration of what the capabilities of jsoc were. It was some static displays for he was Walking Around and being everybody. I have the opportunity to meet him and shake cans with them. When you did 19 overseas tours. What kept you going . Gary this will sound corny but its just a sense of duty, a sense of purpose. What we are fighting, this evil that is out there is something we have got to destroy. We will not do it sitting at home. I felt it was my job to go downrange and take the fight to the enemy. If nothing else, i would help keep us over there and not allow it to come home to the United States. [applause] being able to be a flight instructor, you able to keep that sense of purpose going . Gary somewhat. Its not as exciting. Im not scaring myself every night chasing rockets to the ground. I feel like i still have my finger in the next and unable to some way influence and help new aviators learn about the aircraft. A lot of it is not only our we teach systems in the simulator, but a lot of it is relating our combat experience to folks so they dont have to ok. We embellish a lot of stories. Becausee is a purpose many of the Lessons Learned in previous combat operations have been lost to us over the years here in if we can have people reminding us, telling us the Lessons Learned they will not be forgotten and they will continue on. Can you share a few words about your journey throughout this . i think thats when when we first did he was going to war i thought gary would either come home or he would not. The whole thing of a him coming home severely wounded did not really answer my mind. Gary was a pilot. To be very honest, my other friends, their husbands came home or did not. People rarely survive a helicopter crash. This whole thing of him being severely injured was not on the radar at all. I am very, very can i consider myself one of the lucky ones. Didvery thankful that gary survive and thankful his mind is good. B is still the same person. His shoes last a lot longer. [laughter] he is shorter. Sometimes. Iyway, im thankful that still have him. Immediately after he was injured lets figured out was my problemsolving mode and write it for a long time. And it still is. Last night around president bush made a joke that he asked if you look Different Things if you look at things differently that hes a painter. He looks into Ellen Degeneres eyes and things i can make that color. When i enter a room i figure out how to navigate that room. Palette will get in and out. How he will get a rental car, how we will get everything to the airport. It is constant problem solving. Honestly am thankful for it. It is nice to have such a nice family. [applause] of funny story about shoes. One of the guys i work with he had an old pair of shoes. He was fixing to get rid of them. They still looks good. The bottoms looked wellworn. I asked if i could have those shoes. It would make me look a little more normal if the soldier worn that s soles were warned. You must get stopped every day and asked the same questions over and over. Does it ever get tiring . Gary now because people are naturally curious. I will never fault someone for asking a question. Everyone has always been respectful. I was raised, and when i came up in the army, everyone has a thick skin. If you are insulted you moved on. I welcome questions from people because there is a lot about paralysis and injuries that are a mystery to people up there. If people are aware of what is like or what its about, maybe challenges you. All to makeelps us the world better place for folks dealing with special circumstances. I think thats a great need to taking audience questions. This is being recorded and the only way the camera can hear you is different microphone is brought to you. Right there. Thank you for your service. Did you have the option of jettisoning the rocket pods . Gary yes, we did. It seems after any kind of aircraft accident changes are made. One of the changes made to our aircraft was where the jessen panel of the rockets were. Jettison panel for the rockets were. To. Ine is difficult to get we were going into combat operations. My copilot was hanging out the door with a rifle. It happened so quick. There just was not time in the 10 seconds or less to reach down and jettison the rockets. Now they lived the jettison panel to the Center Console where its very easy to reach up and hit those and jettison them. Right here on the end. Right here. My question is about the exoskeleton. Is this a first generation . Will have a new and improved ones to come . And how many people do you think are eligible now, and will the providede them v. A. Them with an xo skeleton . Gary this one is the second generation. They are constantly working to improve their devices. On monday we are going up to berkeley, california to have some testing for the next model. Yes, they continue to improve. They want to make it lighter, more powerful, or functional. Because of the successful fda trials, these devices are available to carefully jakes through the veterans administration. They had to get tested and meet the criteria that they are premanufactured like ford or chevy. Competition is helping drive innovation. But if an individual meets the criteria to safely refitted for operating these devices, they are eligible to have them at a. Me theory through the v. Isolate you. How to thank you your service, prior to the injury and sent. And thanks to your lovely wife. Her job is certainly as special as yours was. My question to you is this, after spending time in a wheelchair and you spend a lot of time standing, has your physiology changed . Gary a little bit. What i found is moving helps the circulation and the swelling of the legs. It helps with the bladder. It seems to be better when youre up and walking. The human body is not meant to sit for long periods time. I have been sitting for nine years so im ready to get up and walk around. There is physiology that seems to be better. Bone density. From the scans i have had it has improved a little bit. It is not gotten as bad as they expected for someone. Decreased thes, amount of bone density at lose overtime. Then there is the ability to stand up and converses someone. Look them in the eye. Your dignity back. Walking my daughter now the aisle is something that was something that i was in a way i was looking forward to the day she would get married because the character she married is a really good guy. [laughter] he is a good guy, but i always dreaded getting her down the aisle because it did not know how i was going to do it. I did not want to do it in a wheelchair. When the exoskeleton came along, it was a match made in heaven, a dream come true. Hi, gary. Inc. You for your service. One question i thought of, you did 19 tours. How many the think he would have done if you didnt get in the accident . Public of kept going until i hit 30 years service. My fellow s that were [applause] [laughter] that deploying after i stopped. Or so. Rked around 30 keep in mind, rotations over different,somewhat words like conviction of horses going over there for 1215 months. Through his rainier where from 3090 days. We over there for 45 times the year. Thank you. Has a c4 level quadriplegic, i can unfortunately can relate to a lot of what you have been discussing here today. , as youion to you pursue things, constantly trying to get Recovery Companies technologies used technology to advantage, do you have any suggestions or knowledge that might help people that cant use their arms . Thats difficult. Its hard for me to understand completely that someone who doesnt have the use of their arms is going through. I do remember what her subject for center one of the gentlemen i shared a room with was who had a high neck i dont remember expect what it was. He was able to stand, but he couldnt use his hands. User saying, if only i could have my hands back. I understand, but it dont know completely what i would say those my participate in a program called the congressionally directed Research Program i see a lot of research that has been that there are a lot of credit is coming on the pipeline. Hope. D say, dont give up make the best of what you have. Always be hopeful that tomorrow we will learn something more about this injury, how to overcome it. Theres a lot of similarity, as much as their candidate, between you and John Anderson taught them which he is done through the wheel fair wheelchair few miles from here. I was curious as to what direction you might have had, what lessons you might have had to learn her experience she was only 19. Im not familiar, im sorry. Pants with mouth, that sort of thing. As someone went before you, losing so much of her body use come i was wondering if something perhaps not. , there ares i have so many people who have gone before me that have an injured. Ice cube many are able to accomplish ive seen people who are highlevel quadriplegics who can start drive cars, race cars. Arei see people that hundred more severely than myself, and theyre able to accomplish and do its like, how can i quit, when they are doing thank you so much for your service. Russian for you is, was this your first field crash question mark question is bad one, yes. [laughter] ive been involved in one where we crashed downtown baghdad, a couple years prior. More of a hard landing to contamination. My craft was the first and last bed when i got. Thank you. Thank you for your service. I admire both of you. Helicopter malfunctioned was there a defect, and has that been resolved . They were never quite able to determine why this cufflink fell what they did was that somewhere in the maintenance it totally aligned over time, vibrations continue to go until it reached a critical point and. Following that accident or a our entire suite there respectfully request take cufflink stashed they determined it was just an isolated event. Ive a question about the xoskeleton. I was curious whether you were able to put it on by yourself or curated assistance command how hard that processes. I need assistance. Its not it takes about five my legs but not me get put into position, get the strap and everything. Thank you. I just want to thank you and your wife family for coming, this has been awesome, and for your service, thank you. , wonder how much this costs and if this could be available to regular civilians. Also, any here counseling with her religious . With a, i am involved so, Organization Called the coalition her connected Tahrir Square retired soldier injured, any sort of in my global area, i will go talk to them, and hopefully mentor them. Of course the current cost of his exoskeleton his own 110,000 is cost prohibitive. However, as these systems are developed, they will cheat. Other manufacturers that have been able down the cost point. So i think in time, and state continue to drop to become more affordable, available to everyday consumers. Going to take two more questions one over here, one over there. Washank you both, i forwarded to the program very much. I have a question for both of you. What role did physical therapy play in your recovery . For my particular injury, and level of injury, there was not a lot of physical therapy to recover any kind of function. So my physical therapy pretty learning to of transfer at least for the wheelchair, how can you wheelchair. Preservewhen things to the functionality in my body that i have. It was no Spring Chicken ones happened. When need to learn how to maintain as long as possible. I remember when mccleary was first just getting him in and out of bed was a production. Outas trying to get in and hisget a fresh packet, spine was just fused, and we doesnt have has arms and shoulders. What i never ever thought about when i saw somebody in a muscles,r was, obama heres very few of domino muscles. Not only do you have none of your late domino muscles to move 21std, do those things got an appointment said highlow table. He had to learn how to sit again. I just said he had to learn how to sit again he didnt have that level, strength. Hard, and wery day figured it out through there is one i was Passenger Car greater the race was driving here. [laughter] took a corner wasnt expecting come i just walked over. I said hey, im just a torso over here. [laughter] the first time we went probably got a pass, maybe you are 2. 53 weeks after he was first injured to go somewhere. To the. I was very protective of him of course. He wanted to go look at something creative to leave for something come im not sure. I was like, i can just leave him. His grade. Was like, omar mateen the confined him. He was showed so short. [laughter] was trying to look over everything that is done here, i couldnt see him over close racks or anything else. I was calling him on his cell phone, didnt answer, didnt answer. Kris and i find him and him like, i have been calling you. Is like, oh under my leg. [laughter] we have learned a lot, we have learned a lot. One final question ok, we are going to thank you so much for sharing your journey with us here in the library, is to i great to meet you. Thank you so much. [laughter] tonight on the communicators, tennessee were marsha blackburn, the chair of the key house subcommittee on communication and technology, talks about the fccs to change internet regulation rules, and congresses effort to change International Privacy rules. On privacy bill can you tell us about the bill, and also what drove you to introduce a question mark for ready to Say Something that comes forward froms on the issues of privacy and data security. In certainly now, going to have not only states, but citizens with privacy regulations. Theyre doing it because the federal government, congress has not taken an action. The courtesy issue will not have two regulators, which is a good thing. We are going to have one. And they have historically been, the regulator of privacy. In the physical space and virtual space. Important to have one set of four entire ecosystem, and one regulator for the entire echo system. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. Tomorrow on cspan, a look at the politics and security of the asiapacific region, and tensions on the korean peninsula. Live from the International Institute for strategic studies at 10 00 eastern here on cspan. Later in the day, its imposing at a school brown versus board of education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that found state laws establishing separate schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Live coverage from college fund, tomorrow at 1 15 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Systemic, where history unfolds daily. ,n 1979