on saturday, mitt romney, you remember him, gave the commencement address at southern virginia university where 92% of the student body are mormons. he remembered his days serving at a mormon missionary in france. almost every missionary says those are the most difficult years of his life. they are also the best years of his life or her life. think about that. it may sound like a paradox but actually follows one from the other. mission years are the best years in part because they are the hardest years. when you are living to the fullest, beyond yourself, beyond comfort, life is most full and exhilarating. here are the mormon men who
york newsroom with this. reporter: this case has gone pretty cold, they re hoping by publicizing it the way they did with the whitey bulger case that the same thing might happen, somebody sees a picture and says, hey, i know that guy. his name is jason brown. on the left side of the screen is what he looked like when he committed his alleged crime. he s now a 43-year-old former mormon missionary, wanted for murder back in 04, and on the right side of the screen is what the fbi says he could look like today, eight years later. they have technology that allows them to show that picture. brown allegedly shot his victim five times at close range with a .45 caliber handgun, then rode off on a bicycle with $56,000 in cash. the fbi says he s very good at blending in, he could be hiding out in plain sight, as you said, within a more more community somewhere in the country.
message last night. michael scherer, there s an interesting analysis in the new york times this past weekend talking about the need for a romney rye scrisis narrative, e president has one, whether clinton in his upbringing, whether george w. bush with his battle with alcoholism. mitt romney, his car accident he experienced while a mormon missionary in france or ann s battle with ms. both of the crises dredge up things romney would rather not talk about. ann s battle with ms brings to mind the fact they have access to premium health care, something mitt romney is not comfortable talking about. of course, the car accident talks about the fact he was a missionary and his mormon faith. what do you make of that, and does he need a crisis narrative? maybe he does. i mean, his real problem is being somebody that the american people actually want to see in their living room several times a week for four years. and i think that s what tonight s speech is about. it s his big first test get
grdfather. it s a love story of faith and devotion that kept the romneys together for 43 years and helped them go through the long and sometimes difficult campaign. at the beginning i just loved her. now she is much more than the person i love. she is the person i live for. ann and mitt romney s story begins in bloomfield, michigan. ann davies was just 16 years old when mitt spotted her at a school dance. they had known each other for years but suddenly couldn t take their eyed off each other. she said she even turned down dates with mitt in order not to appear too eager. it worked. and soon they were a couple. a year later he moved to france for 2 1/2 years to perform his mormon missionary duties.
avoided military services by receiving four draft deferment, including a stretch in france as a mormon missionary. does the reality therefore of mr. romney s life live up to his rhetoric? i don t think it lives up to either of the rhetoric. they re both supporting a policy of continuing war in afghanistan, so if you look at what s created things like votevets.org, we ve taken a chung of people that used to be republican and are now supportive of our organization. the romney act that congressman ryan supported, all of their advisers are from the bush administration. they have an opportunity to move to the left on the president on afghanistan, where the man is a very moderate plan. he s not calling for a rapid withdrawal. instead, the reason neither of them like to talk about it is that they re both in weak positions from a polling standpoint and what governor