so yeah, i m pretty upset about it and the actions that are being done in washington are in my view, verge on being criminal. we ve got some statistics, we re going to take a look the. the number of vets living on assistance now, nearly 340,000 veterans receive public money for housing. 900,000 veterans live on food stamps. 5,000 active duty troops are currently receiving food stamp assistance. we just heard the president of the united states talk about how we re going to take care of these guys. yet you look at the facts and doesn t look like we re doing a very good job of it. i don t think he really cares about our military despite what he says. if he did, i don t think that we would be having the issues that we have with veterans. anyone who ever worn the uniform, in my mind, or of are of a special breed. when i came back from vietnam, the country was in a different mode. we were heckled. we were talked about.
sha, la, la, la, la, la it takes a special breed to live in a province like quebec. it gets cold in winter, and winters are long. it takes a special kind of person for whom frozen rivers, icy wind-whipped streets, deep seemingly endless forests are the norm. i will confess my partisanship up front. i love montreal. it is my favorite place in canada. the people who live there are tough, crazy bastards, and i admire them for it. toronto, vancouver, i love you, but not like montreal. why?
shoulder something good in a beautiful world i felt the rain getting cold er it takes a special breed to live in a province like quebec. it gets cold in winter, and winters are long form.
marathon racers are a special breed. they a ma racers are a eyhare a commitment to months of training and running ridiculously long runs. that s for sure. that s why the bombing at the marathon in boston seed personal for the runners in this week s marathon in london. abc s nick schifrin has more. let us now show our respect and support. reporter: from the beginning london remembered boston. in boston. reporter: 35,000 runners wearing black ribbons standing silent. one of them was jack. all of a sudden now, we hear another siren. reporter: the 67-year-old army vet was running with his daughter half a mile from the boston finish line when the bombs exploded. what i will be thinking about in london is the people that got hurt in boston. i will run for the people back in boston. reporter: that is 25-year-old tatiana mcfadden who has never walked, but won the boston wheelchair marathon. they ran for boston in
solidarity with those who were killed and injured in boston. runners are a special breed. they had extra security if place for that event, put something spectators minds at ease. obviously, it s on your mind because it s awful. but i don t think tell happen here t. doesn t worry me. i said, all the more reason to be here, solidarity with the people. very sad. especially at buckingham palace. not worried at all. it s on my mind. i am really, really upset about what happened there. this, we are doing in support. all the runirs are wearing the black arm bands. it s a beautiful day. it s a great time. i am here to support my son and my daughter who is about to run past any minute now. but life goes on. jamie: london organizers pledged to donate $3 for every finisher of the race to a fund that has been set up to benefit the boston bomb victims.