reporter: some equate it to boot camp, pushed by coaches instead. this is william davenport. the young man came up to me with one arm missing. i thank you for your service and, my gosh, here i am whole. i just have a problem seeing. reporter: davenport skiing downhill legally blind. 80% of the cost is covered by private donation like that from former deputy defense secretary dr. paul wolfowi it tz. much more appealing to have your philanthropy go to an activity where there s a lot of tender loving care volunteer labor, things money can t buy. reporter: organizers often hear from vets this one week changes their lives, even if it comes in the form of peer pressure. if i m a shoulder and see a marine doing something, my pride
government every year. cnn s alan chernoff is here with the story. what is going on? remember the great quote from mark twain, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated? it applies to thousands of social security recipients every year, including one elderly woman we met who received very untimely news from the social security administration. marjorie is a healthy and vibrant 94-year-old yet the social security administration thought she died five years ago. you look very much alive to me. i feel alive now, but at one time i didn t. was that because of what the social security administration told you? yes. exactly. one young clerk looked me in the face and told me i was dead and i said but i m standing right here. she went to her local bank to get cash, but her atm card wouldn t work. when she went inside, a bank officer cut the card up right in front of her and said according to our records, you re dead. i explained to her well, i didn t feel dead, but s
will renew and continue our commitment to the iraqis and the iraqi government which is great to hear. but it would have been a lot it would have been nice for him to acknowledge the surge and the policies that were part of making this outcome possible. he did mention president bush s name, said he was a patriot and loved this country. those are givens. if he wanted to turn the page, he could have said, hey, we disagreed about a lot of things but also the policies that brought about this or the catalyst for the very important moment and the last couple of years of progress. i think that would have been a great step. he did tacitly acknowledge it in comparing the iraq surge to what he s trying to do in afghanistan. he applied that and said the surge in iraq is the model for what we ll do in afghanistan except in afghanistan he in the same breath set a time line in iraq president bush didn t. that s why we had the peaceful 4th stryker brigade. larry: john sul it tz, what did you think