particularly becauses proximity between nashville and fort campbell, kentucky. our organization had a lot to do a lot of things got involved, a lot of things there so that s kind of how i got started. i ve done a uso tour in iraq. then i did something that was really special last spring. i climbed mount kilimajaro with the wounded warrior project and believe in heroes for soldiers. 11 in all, eight finished, right? some of which had limbs that prosthetics. single amputees, yeah, one of them finished and one had to come down early. the one that finished, my understanding is the first single amputee to reach the summit and then to come all the way down. and first ever. and then we had a female who was with us last night, you guys got to meet. she finished as well. we started with 11 and eight
brian. now, he is telling people you know what? you re wrong again. he just became the first cancer survivor to climb the seven summits the world, co-founder of the cancer climbers association back with us fresh off his fifth trip to mount kilimajaro. congratulations. thank you. thank you. does it ever become old hat? you know, it doesn t. it s so beautiful up there, you know, i didn t see you up this year. next year. we were busy. we were at the top and tired of waiting for you. we were trying to set up a live feed with you and just for technical difficulties, it didn t work out. so tell us about the trip and why you take people on these trips? we take people on the trips as a fundraiser for the cancer climber association that my brother and i founded. but it s so beautiful up there and people have to go up and see, a, the glaciers before they melt. they re going to be gone i m guessing within the next seven to 10 years, but otherwise, if you look at the pictures there
always been there. it will always be there. your life may not be. you have to continue to keep climbi climbing. i would imagine the first time when you were told you were going to die within a number of weeks, twice in a row, you go to one of the tops of the seven summits and said this is fantastic. i have to do all of them. i m not quite sure what was in my mind. i shouldn t be here to see this. right, it was amazing because, you know, when i got to the top of everest, you know, first cancer survivor to climb everest, i was up on the summit and i was up so high, i could see the curvature of the earth. i put a flag on the top of everest of people that had been touched by cancer. they re my hope and they re my inspiration. you re going to go back. this was your seventh trip to kilimajaro, you re going to go again next year. if people would like to tag along, you have a little time, you want to go out to africa and up to the top, go to our web
celebrating a birthday today. somebody it s not on the couch. it s actually dana! happy birthday to you! thank you so much. this is the one that i stopped celebrating after this one. and you kicked it off by kicking off the soldier ride as it hit in annapolis, i should say. that s right. president bush, remember, he went with bret baier and steven hayes two weeks ago on a mountain bike ride. i was told that the guide that they hired quit after the first day because they said president bush was some kind of crazy animal on a mountain bike? i was able to take greetings from president bush to the soldier ride on the man you just saw is dan nevins, executive vice president for events and a double amputee and was hurt in 2004 in iraq and he recently climbed mount kilimajaro so there s nothing the rest of us can t do. happy birthday. happy 29th birthday, dana. thank you so much. have a great day today. ok, bye-bye. meanwhile, i guess rick has been scrambled again for a bad
abbott claims the federal officials did not contact the state before actually issuing that ban. three u.s. amputee veterans overcome many scrapes and falls to conquer mount kilimajaro. the three veterans of vietnam, afghanistan and iraq hiked to the top of africa s highest point in six days to show that disability doesn t have to lead to inactivity. the youngest of the veterans, 26-year-old neil duncan, the man in the middle, lost both legs to a roadside bomb in afghanistan in 2005. wow. what an accomplishment. indeed. good for them. remember howard biel famously in the movie network. i m as mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. but he s an actor. you remember that flight attendant earlier in the week, mad as hell and not going to take this job any more. down the chute and with beer. he s an over actor. what about the guy who is the official spokesman of the president of the united states? it sounds like when he was talking to the hill newspaper