It's wonderful [the affirmation]. We want to support the Soldiers any way we can.

I certainly support suspending the discussions,

So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them no matter what they're doing.

The point is I support our soldiers and I think about them every day, Tim and I both do. We know what's going on and we pray for them, we pray for their families. Every time it comes across the news that we've lost another soldier, it affects me the same way as it did when we lost the first few hundred soldiers at the beginning of the war. I've still not forgotten about them and I never will. They're the reason we live in a free country not just [this] war but any that we've fought before.

He's doing what we asked him to do. He brought it all together and he made it more a continuum.

When other children may have given up because of obstacles placed before them, these children did not. These students have overcome some obstacle, whether learning issues or personal issues at home.