And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh,my gosh,there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'" And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him,and here he's a football coach at Cal , so if we go to an athletic event, there would be people painting their signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

When we go to see a movie, my friend always makes a beeline for the place where they sell popcorn.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Earlier this evening, we heard a number of bombs go sliding and slithering across, to fall several blocks away."

VOA: special.2010.01.31

"There was a chance that we would go on a trip to India and Afghanistan, but apparently we're not doing that.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

"I usually get together with a daughter and a granddaughter and we go out to dinner and exchange gifts.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

We go to the restaurant, have a romantic dinner. Every day should be Valentine's Day, right?"

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Everybody wants to go for a wonderful hike and start off with fresh air and all the things we're going to have in our lives the whole next year.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

when I've been surprised. When we had like a surprise we got to go out to someplace very fancy, didn't really know what was going to happen ahead of time.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

But I also know that we've got a long way to go to fully restore our economy and recover from what's been the longest and deepest downturn since the Great Depression."

VOA: special.2009.10.30

"We have one project called bee-spotters, which is now restricted to Illinois, where we ask people to go out with a digital camera,even a cell phone, and photograph either bumblebees or honeybees."

VOA: special.2011.05.24

- Where we going?- Away from Forks. - We'll get a ferry to Vancouver.- I have to go home. Now.

VOA: standard.other

"The world has been a very violent place in oil frontier places when we have had enough to go round.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

All proceeds will go to disaster relief in Haiti through a newly-formed charity called the We Are The World Foundation.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

But it is just the beginning. We have a ways to go. Unemployment is high and still rising.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01