This is the one we like to give most because of the suffering and trials our 91st soldiers went through during that campaign in Italy.

My soul aches when I think about hungry soldiers, unpaid officers and their families, who have been suffering for years without a home of their own,

The first responders of 9/11 — the cops, the firefighters, the soldiers — that was what John Wayne embodied. He was a hero to the greatest generation because there was a moral clarity in his characters. He saw things in black and white, good and evil. That's why you're seeing his popularity surge.

I am grateful in a way that can never be adequately expressed in words. To the British soldiers who risked their lives to rescue us, to the government of Canada who sent a team to Baghdad to help secure our release, to all those who thought about us and prayed for us, for all those who spoke for us when we had no voice, I am forever and truly grateful. It's great to be alive.

We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others - even when we cause it.

Humanitarian suffering and destruction could well exceed that of the 1998 offensive.