you grew up in kokomo, indiana. >> kroft: kokomo, indiana. >> stahl: what do you think you brought fromkes your sensibility different from your east/west coast colleagues? >> kroft: well, i think that, i still think of the midwest as being the heartland of the country. different values. very religious, for the most part. or, more religious than-- >> stahl: east/west coast. >> kroft: --than the east/west coast. and a lot of the people that i know in new york who have been very successful came from the midwest. and i thought, you know, they send kids off to fight wars. >> stahl: including kroft. he graduated from syracuse university, with an eye on madison avenue. >> kroft: then i got drafted, and then i ended up in vietnam. and i decided i didn't want to be in advertising anymore. i wanted to be in journalism. >> stahl: because when you were in the service, you were writing for "stars and stripes?" >> kroft: i was a correspondent photographer for "stars and stripes," which was the highest journalism job in the army, and a great job. >> stahl: and you got to meet a lot of the network corr

liberated at or american soldiers who in april 1945, your father was a kokomo in 1945. >> they were both on april 11th on that day. >> is there evidence that they crossed paths. do you know. >> we don't know. the four years we put him, i found in my father's photo album, a little black and white photo, headshot. we do turn it over, there was a name on the back. the young man whose pictured is, i couldn't decipher the name. it was 1945. i thought well, my father held up we put a soda for decades. who is this person. so i knew some., was going to show it k to giselle. it's a time thing. i said look at this. and when he said i must've known that person. these people who are still alive at that late date in this genocide, probably knew each other. but when he held out hope pretty you will find the answer to the story. so for the last surviving people. the solidifying, w there is a vy personal connection. my father story and history. the "cbs 2" broadcaster is94 the in april of 1945 gives a harrowing broadcast were essentially talking to some of the survivors about the fact that franklin roos

the major kokomo power of which yet is broken will debilitate an enemy in war. in the center of gravity that lincoln identified and made the generals understand was a confederate armies themselves needed to be destroyed and after 1863, this will be his primary message to the field commanders, destroyed the field armies, do whatever is necessary to bring them down, as a corollary to this we see the hard war against the south and if you hit the home front you also be hitting the armies which are supplied by the homefront. when we turn to national strategic means, these next two slides given idea of the disparity between the north and the south in the civil war and this is the beginning as the war progresses it just gets worse for the confederacy. indicating to robert ely that the clock is ticking and he must act quickly and decisively because the longer the war goes the worst it is going to be as far as means for the south, he did realize if they could prevent lincoln's reelection in 1864 and the memes would not matter as much but until that time, he had to find a

. >>> happy 101st birthday to bob wagner of kokomo, indiana.gshead a veteran of harrisonburg, virginia, spending as much time outdoors as possible there you have it. >> just once i want to see you do the smucker's birthdays in your sunday football voice. >> that would be something. >> good idea with the echo and everything. >> we'd have to carve out five minutes. >> yes, we do. >>> more stories you'll love on today.com/allday. >>> parade of stars ahead this morning, dennis quaid and amy brenneman. >>> kim kardashian west and jane bosworth, action packed five, six hours of "today." >> ellen was right. >>> first, a check of your local news and weather, have a good day, everybody >> have a good day >>> good morning, everyone. an apple store thieves targeted in a smash and grab robbery in the spring has been hit again. here is video from the last burglary in april. they smashed the front doors and stole about $12,000 worth of laptops. last night police say robbers entered that same store around closing time and stole a bunch of devices, ran to a ca