i'm charles osgood and this is sunday morning. however divided our nation may appear to be during this election year, the current rift is nothing comparedded to what our country was going through a century-and-a-half ago. then two huge armies were converging on a cornfield in maryland readying themselves for combat at a place called antietam. that would be our cover story this morning reported by serena altschul. >> reporter: 150 years ago tomorrow, september 17, 1862, was the bloodiest day of battle in american history. >> you had 4,000 that were killed. 19,000 hurt. no one had ever seen a day like this before or since. >> reporter: a day and a battle that would change us forever. >> the country we are was born the day all those men died on these fields. >> reporter: later on sunday morning, we'll take you back to anitetam. >> osgood: first in brooklyn, now in l.a. vin scully has been the broadcasting main stay for fans of the dodgers. even after all his years of doing play by play he's still very much at the top of his game. lee

nextÑiÑi antitam. >> osgood: and later heart felt music from heart. >> osgood: antietam was a civil waring to contemplate even 150 years later. serena altschul went to the scene of the conflict for our sunday morning cover story. >> reporter: as the sun rose on these quiet maryland farmlands on september 17, 1962, the bloodiest day in american history began. >> for 12 hours these two determined armies tore into each other. of course, if you average the casualties that day, a man fell on this field every two seconds during those 12 hours. >> reporter: the battle started, says antietam ranger keith snyder, in a cornfield on the miller farm just outside the town of sharps burg. >> when the union soldiers are moving through the corn really all you could see was the bayonets gleftenning at the top of the corn and the confederates were about 100 yards south just waiting for them to pop out. tremendous confusion, the smoke, the fog, the noise. >> reporter: general robert e. lee's army, emboldened by a summer of victories had crossed into union territory for the first time. hoping that a victor

>> osgood: and later? don't worry about kunar >> osgood: starting over after a traumatic event is never an easy task. not even for a young man this nation honors as a hero. our cover story is reported by national security correspondent david martin. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dakota meyer. ( applause ) >> thank you. reporter: for dakota meyer, the medal of honor is a full-time job which keeps him on the road 20 or more days each month. >> we could go out and make a difference >> reporter: here he is at a job fair for veterans in quantico, virginia. >> they told me i would be receiving the medal of honor i told them i didn't want it because i don't feel like a hero. then the president said something to me. he said it's bigger than you. i never really thought about that until afterwards. it is bigger than me. >> thank you all so much reporter: behind that jaunty air lies some of the toughest lessons any young man ever had to learn. first, there was the battle in a remote afghan valley for which

>> osgood: and later?,,,,,,,,,,, kunar >> osgood: starting over after a traumatic event is never an easy task. not even for a young man this nation honors as a hero. our cover story is reported by national security correspondent david martin. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dakota meyer. ( applause ) >> thank you. reporter: for dakota meyer, the medal of honor is a full-time job which keeps him on the road 20 or more days each month. >> we could go out and make a difference >> reporter: here he is at a job fair for veterans in quantico, virginia. >> they told me i would be receiving the medal of honor i told them i didn't want it because i don't feel like a hero. then the president said something to me. he said it's bigger than you. i never really thought about that until afterwards. it is bigger than me. >> thank you all so much reporter: behind that jaunty air lies some of the toughest lessons any young man ever had to learn. first, there was the battle in a remote afghan valley for which he rece

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and here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: ed asner played lou grant quite a demanding news room bossthese years later he's commanding our attention once again, this time in a brand new role on broadway. rit a braver has this sunday profile. >> i'll tell you what. i'll try you out for a couple of weeks and see if it works out. if i don't like you, i'll fire you. if you don't like me, i'll fire you. >> reporter: he found his way into our hearts playing the cantankerous but endearing news director lou grant on the mary tyler moore show. >> excuse me, ted. mary, would you please give those cue cards to this idiot. >> reporter: since then, he's played scores of tv and movie roles from santa claus in elf... >> your father, he's on the naughty list. >> no! reporter: ... to voicing the adventure seeking widower in up. >> i'll send you a postcard from paradise. >> reporter: but now ed asner is about to open on broadway. his name an obvious draw on the marquis. >> yeah, it's lazarus risen from the dead. >> reporter: i don't think so but i do think it's... your name is so familiar. >> oh, stop

osgood: ahead... where are you off to?on an ñ >> osgood: the curtain is going up on the new season at the movies. bill whitaker in hollywood has saved us a seat. >> i'm looking for someone to share in an adventure. >> it happens every year as the weather cools down, the big screen sizzles. >> kind of like your happy time it is a happy time. i mean... >> reporter: the film critic for the los angeles times and our guide through this fall's films. >> you know, this year it's going to be really good films in the fall. sometimes there are. sometimes that actually happens. >> reporter: are there one or two that stand out? >> i'm looking forward to lincoln >> reporter: starring daniel day lewis. >> blood has been spilt as of this moment. now, now, now >> reporter: the actor, known to transform himself does so to uncanny effect against the sweep and drama and steven spielberg's commanding images of the civil war. >> shall we stop this pleading? mr. president? reporter: in hyde park on hudson bill murray plays f.d.r. hosting the ki

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and here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: ed asner played lou grant quite a demanding news room boss show back in the 1970s. all these years later he's commanding our attention once again, this time in a brand new role on broadway. rit a braver has this sunday profile. >> i'll tell you what. i'll try you out for a couple of weeks and see if it works out. if i don't like you, i'll fire you. if you don't like me, i'll fire you. >> reporter: he found his way into our hearts playing the cantankerous but endearing news director lou grant on the mary tyler moore show. >> excuse me, ted. mary, would you please give those cue cards to this idiot. >> reporter: since then, he's played scores of tv and movie roles from santa claus in elf... >> your father, he's on the naughty list. >> no! reporter: ... to voicing the adventure seeking widower in up. >> i'll send you a postcard from paradise. >> reporter: but now ed asner is about to open on broadway. his name an obvious draw on the marquis. >> yeah, it's lazarus risen from the dead. >> reporter: i don't think so but i do think it's... your name

you don't understand, osgood! i'm a man. well... nobody's perfect. perfect" is the greatest gay joke in the american cinema. it's funny because it's true. what we see in this film is that nobody is purely male, nobody is purely female; these ideals don't work. nobody's perfect, nobody's like that. what is this strange animal thing you have? it bothers me. it's bothered me since the first time i saw you. and it'll bother me always. from here to eternity. you must fight it, elaine. you must be strong. you must remember i belong to another. richard! (peter bogdonavich) it had a lot to do with the basic lie at the heart of the society, splitting women between purity and the carnal urge. richard! in the 30's, the women were both; they could be w---- and nun in one. that tended to split apart in the 50's and into the 60's, where it really had to be kind of one or the other. it's too wicked. the pattern of your behavior is completely obvious. you pushed the plant down because you wanted to kill me. (peter bogdonavich) there seems to be a lot of misanthropy

as an electrician 49-year-old steven o'malley depend osgood vision, but seven years -- depends on goodion, but seven years ago things suddenly began to go dark. >> i was scared to death. i went to work at 6:00 in the evening and was completely blind in one eye six hours later. >> reporter: the cleveland father of two was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. ms is a neurological disease affecting the brain and spinal cord. symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis, usually getting worse over time leaving many patients greatly disabled. while there's no cure for ms, there are effective treatments. kate lodge gets monthly infusions requiring a two-hour hospital visit, but there are scary potential side effects including fatal brain infections. >> the symptoms of the brain infection can mirror the symptoms of ms. so you can't know and so you go into a panic mode. >> what we've needed in ms treatment is the ideal combination of very effective therapy, well tolerated and safe. >> and now that therapy may finally be here in an easy to take pill form. dr. robert fox is