apple holds almost $100 billion in cash reserves. this morning the company announce wad it would do with some of that cold cash. apple announced a $10 billion stock buyback that would begin in october. it also would begin giving shareholders a quarterly dividend for the first time since 1995. and espn s chris mortenson a reporting that peyton manning will sign with the denver broncos. four-time nfl most valuable player had been deciding between tennessee and denver. indianapolis colts released the quarterback just two weeks ago after injury forced had i am to miss the entire 2011 season. well, in 2006 manning led the colts to a super bowl championship. all right. didn t do my brackets any good but north carolina state upset georgetown in the ncaa tournament. that happened this weekend. it was one of several big march madness upsets. the 11th seeded wolf pack ran away from the number 3 seed down the stretch. lorenzo brown sealed the game with three free throws in the last
one veteran was specialist nick colgin, an army medic. when nick was in afghanistan he served as a combat medic with the 82nd airborne. over the course of his deployment, nick saved the life of a french soldier who was shot in the head and helped 42 people escape from a flooding river. he earned a bronze star for his actions, but when nick got back home to wyoming, he couldn t get a job as a first responder, so he ended up taking classes through the post-9/11 g.i. bill just so he could qualify for the same duties at home that he was doing every single day in afghanistan. if you can save a life in afghanistan, you can save a life in an ambulance in wyoming. the challenges don t end in kandahar or baghdad, they continue right here at home. today we re saying to our
one of our veterans who returned home with a sudden unemployment was specialist nick colgin, an army medic. when nick was in afghanistan he served as a combat medic with the 82nd airborne. over the course of his deployment, nick saved the life of a french soldier who was shot in the head and helped 42 people escape from a flooding river. he earned a bronze star for his actions, but when nick got back home to wyoming, he couldn t get a job as a first responder, so he ended up taking classes through the post-9/11 g.i. bill that he could have easily taught, just to qualify for the same duties at home that he was doing in afghanistan. if you can save a life in afghanistan, you can save a life in an ambulance in wyoming. the challenges don t end in kandahar or baghdad, they
veterans who come home and struggle to find a job worthy of their experience and worthy of their talent. veterans like nick hogan. when nick was in afghanistan, he served as a combat medic with the 82nd airborne. over the course of his deployment, nick saved the life of a french soldier who was shot in the head and helped 42 people escape there a flooding river. he earned a bronze star for his actions. but when nick got back home to wyoming, he couldn t get a job as a first responder. so he ended up having to take classes through the post-9/11 g.i. bill, classes he easily could have taught, just so he could qualify for the same duties at home that he was doing every single day in afghanistan. there are veterans like maria canalles. she was a financial specialist in the army, helping to provide financial support for her unit
but for every success story, there are also stories of veterans who come home and struggle to find a job worthy of their experience and worthy of their talent. veterans like nick holgan. when nick was in afghanistan, he served as a combat medic with the 82nd airborne. he helped fro people escape from a flooding river. he earned a bronze star for his actions. when nick got back home to wyoming, he couldn t get a job as a first responder. so he ended up having to take classes through the post-9/11 gi bill, classes he could have easily taught just so he could qualify for the same duties at home that he was doing every single day in afghanistan. they re veterans like maria canalas. she was a financial specialist