as well. next week the president will lead a summit for democracy with world leaders. there is a thought. as the new yorkers point out back with us tonight, doris kearns. as you doris, we call this broadcast the 11th hour, here is the question, if democracy runs out of midnight, where do you reckon the clock is right about now? i think what history can tell us the clock is not as close to running out in 1961, when the civil war was about to begin that would kill 600,000 people. maybe not as close as it was in
doris says she has no plans to retire and hopes that her story will inspire others to pick up a pen and paper and write our troops even if it s just a few words, she says, she says every single letter can really make a difference and more on her story, how you can write our troops on the live shots tab on foxnews.com. juliet: does she have family in the military? her husband was in the navy and father-in-law in the navy and knows how important it is for the letters to get to our troops. juliet: a wonderful woman. sure is. juliet: thank you doris. thank you, laura. a delicate dance taking place 220 miles per hour above the earth. atlantis making one final flawless docking with the international space station, but getting there wasn t exactly easy. we re now just learning how close space junk came to the astronaut s vicinity. and families force today make a cuff stigs in a tough economic market when having a job means you have to pack up and love hundreds of mile away with al
people on board the plane had life threatening injuries. eyewitnesses say it s a miracle anybody survived. so far no word what caused this accident. she calls hem her children, a woman from connecticut reaches out to soldiers half a world away. done this for decades. doris spent one week a month, six hours a day, handwriting, handwriting, that s the key, letters to men and women serving overseas while she s never met most, she says what they re doing means a lot and her letters are a small way to say thank you for their sacrifices and laura ingle is here with more on the touching story, i love this story. i love this story. juliet: i love doris. and we ve been at theing the stair all day long. she s touched the lives of many troops serving overseas from a small room and a small town in connecticut where she is recorded as a hometown hero by her community and local leaders. dear bret, what really inspired me was i was walking