into action. in fact, when my staff first tried to arrange the phone call, to tell him i had approved his medal, dakota was at work at his new civilian job on a construction site, he felt he couldn t take the call right then because he said if i don t work, i don t get paid. so we arranged to make sure he got the call during his lunch break. meyer says he s going along with the whole process to make the world remember the comrades who didn t make them out of the ambush. he wears their numbers on his wrist. he s doing it for the guys, the same reason he went into the ambush five times. that s your brothers, your marines. that s what you do for a brother. also not forgotten is staff sergeant juan rodriguez chavez. he drove the gun truck while dakota worked the gun.
and in the words of james layton mom, they can lay their sons to rest with dignity. reporter: but dakota, a kentucky native feels he is undeserving of all the recognition. i m definitely not a hero. that s the furthest thing from the truth. reporter: september 8, 2009. afghan army battalion supported by u.s. soldiers and the meyer fellow marines were ambushed. then corporal meyer requested by radio to go help them. he was ordered to stay back and disobeyed orders. we re going to go in there or die trying, you know. that s how it is. that is your brothers in there. reporter: meyer and staff sergeant juan rodriguez chavez rescued u.s. and afghan troops , provideed cover to allow dozens to escape. they returned five times searching for members of meyer s own team. when found them, they were all dead. i went in there to bring the guys out alive. that was my mission. i didn t bring them out alive
rodriguez chavez was recognized with the navy cross. shepard? shepard: i mentioned he had those two requests. one was a rememberance of his fallen comrades and two was this beer with the president. he got each, our american hero. shepard: rise of freedom now in our continuing series in the rebuilding of the world trade center more than a decade has now passed since the terrorists brought down the original buildings. what happened that day is now a terrible chapter in u.s. history. the question for schools is how do you teach the kids about it? how come they flew into the towers? good question! you mean the hijackers? shepard: joan judd teaches at a grade school in upstate new york which most of the country has no guidelines for teaching about the attacks of 9/11. when i prepared my lesson, i realized i was talking about the twin towers and fourth graders might not know what the twin
passed away and i suddenly found myself in a small business where i had one real live customer and that was hanging on trying to succeed. but i know what it means to meet a payroll, to hire people and to create jobs in the private sector. and here in washington there s a fundamental misunderstanding of the economy and it s led to an awful lot of bad decisions. the reality is that employers will hire, if they ve got the right incentives. but the incentives have to outweigh the costs. as an example, businesses aren t going to hire someone because the government s going to give them a $4,000 tax credit. if the government mandates that are imposed on them cost a lot more than that, temporary credit. in recent years these mandates have been overwhelming. private sector job creators of all sizes have been pummeled by decisions being made right here in washington. they ve been slammed by uncertainty from the constant threat of new taxes out of control spending and unnecessary regula
lost $232 million, that the price of solar panels at that time had dropped 50%, and that the price of solar-grade silicone had plummeted. but solyndra wasn t using silicone, the chinese were, which made it almost impossible for them to compete. now, a woman who claims that she works for the firm that built the solyndra plant called in to the mark levin show. levin says she was vetted, she s legitimate, and here s what she said. play it. while we were out there, while we were building it because it is a half a billion dollar plant everyone already knew that china had developed a more inexpensive way to manufacture these solar panels. everyone knew that the plant wouldn t work, but they still did it, they still built it, and, um, basically, they stole that money. obama flew out and did an appearance out there and, actually, they re filing bankruptcy next week. reporter: a man who was just laid off by solyndra sold the san jose mercury news that solyndra was tossing ou