Sudeikis Not Returning to "SNL"; A Vietnam War Miracle
JASON SUDEIKIS, "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE": This is the situation room, which three nights a week also doubles as my bedroom.</s>BALDWIN: The "Saturday Night Live" actor who played our very own, our beloved Wolf Blitzer, is sadly not returning to the show. Jason Sudeikis joining a long line of cast members leaving. He is famous for playing Joe Biden, Howard Dean, and, of course, Wolf, who by the way tweeted, with Sudeikis leaving, who should play me next? Got to watch, "</s>SITUATION ROOM," 5: 00 Eastern to hear Wolf's thoughts. You know, it is a miracle that an infantry sergeant came home from Vietnam alive and he has started a program designed to help other vets. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has his story in this week's "Human Factor."</s>DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was 1968. Infantry Platoon Sergeant Urban Miyares was on patrol in Vietnam.</s>URBAN MIYARES, VIETNAM VETERAN: As we were going out, going by the rice paddies in the delta, I hear mortar shells going off and machine guns going off. Next thing I know I found myself falling face first into a rice paddy. That's it. Two days later, I woke up in a Saigon Military Hospital. They told me I was lucky. They found me in a body bag.</s>GUPTA: You heard that right. Urban was put in a body bag presumed dead because he was found unconscious. An astute combat medic had discovered him still breathing.</s>MIYARES: The diagnosis was diabetes.</s>GUPTA: Urban hadn't been hit by the enemy. He passed out from the effects of the disease. He was the only soldier in his platoon to survive.</s>MIYARES: If it wasn't been for diabetes, I probably wouldn't be here.</s>GUPTA: The 45 years since had been a roller coaster ride as well. Urban has been legally blind since the '70s. He lost most of his hearing. He needed a kidney transplant, but one thing, sailing, that kept him afloat.</s>MIYARES: When I went to Vietnam and came back so sick and especially with the eyesight loss, I never thought I'd get into sailing again until I met two gentlemen in wheelchairs, Vietnam era veterans.</s>GUPTA: The three of them together started Challenged America. It's a therapeutic sailing program for people with disabilities, primarily veterans.</s>MIYARES: Sailing is therapy. There's nothing like being on the water, being with nature.</s>GUPTA: The program now has 27 modified sailboats based in San Diego. Urban's goal is to help the world see people with disabilities as equals.</s>MIYARES: It's nice. You get front of the line privileges, as I like to say. That's not what we're doing here. We want to be equal with you. Give us a chance to prove that we can do it, and you may be surprised.</s>GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.