My grandmother used to go with her church to visit the soldiers at Walter Reed. But she had to stop. Couldn't take it anymore. She was a nurse at Georgetown University Hospital for 30 years, and she had seen a lot. But seeing all of those boys coming back from Iraq -- hundreds of them, 19-, 20-, 21-year-olds -- all torn apart like that, it just broke her heart.

The visit of the pope is to the church, to the Cuban people, ... To talk about a visit to the regime means devaluing somewhat this visit.

He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.

Patrick's brother Tom and his wife, Diane, came to visit, and they absolutely loved the place. They told their daughter Karen, who's a hairdresser in Denver. The production company that does 'If Walls Could Talk' is located there, and one of the production assistants on the show came in to have her hair cut. Karen told her about the house, and eventually she found our contact info and asked us to be on the show.

When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.

My experience has been whenever captured soldiers are released, it at least creates a window for dialogue.