on this veterans day, my friend fred griffey, marine, has invited me to the marine commandant s residency in washington, d.c. every summer they ve they see parades, they welcome in veterans, honor various people. katie: it s great during the summertime, too, on the national mall they have a lot of the military bands playing friday, thursday nig.ts pete: the marines had the twofer yesterday the marine corps birthday, veterans day today, we honor them both days as well. speaking of marines we had a marine, two s.e.a.l.s and a soldier with us to talk about veterans day, a really special opportunity. we got a chance to talk about medal of honor recipient dakota meyer, lone survivor marcus latrell mark, sean parnell, 85% of his platoon was wounded. on this veterans day we thought who better to talk to of the spirit of this day than that four. they sat down with us. listen to this.