they'd joined the jehovah's witnesses early in their relationship, but by her early 20s, daughter lizz had left the church. newly independent, she rushed into a marriage. a bad one. >> true that he was involved in heavy drugs? >> yes. >> that was the end of it? >> that was it. i didn't want to live that kind of life. >> reporter: but her parents' marriage just kept going through sickness and health. in fact, in recent years, jaime was looking younger than ever on a vegetarian diet and exercise regimen. >> he realized he was getting older and he just wanted to make sure he was in the best physical shape. >> your mom. your poor mom meanwhile had a constellation of health problems, didn't she? >> yes. >> lupus? chemotherapy involved in that? >> at times, yeah. she also had epilepsy. >> did she have the seizures? did you ever see her -- >> yes. yeah, she did. >> reporter: then december 2012 rolled around. their 32nd wedding anniversary. sandra was ill on the actual day. so they went out together ten days later, on december 22nd. >> she was finally feeling well enough to go and have dinner.

there were jehovah's witnesses, gypsies, handicap people, homosexuals, political prisoners, etc. now, patton ordered the men to assemble some citizens and they marched them through buchenwald. they said he didn't know -- they didn't know what was going on at buchenwald. if you remember, there was black smoke belching from the chimneys 24 hours a day. the stink was terrible and he claims he didn't know what was going on. the following day after the burg meister saw after he went through buchenwald, he and his wife committed suicide. on april 14, we got word that president roosevelt had passed away. and the germans that we spoke to did not understand our system of government. and they were wondering what's going to happen to the united states now? there's no president roosevelt. april, we're moving very rapidly. and on between the 23 rd the 28th, we come into nuremberg. the entire old city of nuremberg had been destroyed one night. the allies flew bombers over and just destroyed the entire city. the amazing thing is the following day, the germans came out of the bunkers. they came

. >> sounds like what haves to jehovah's witnesses or menonnites. >> a religious kind of reckoning that the person who is separated goes through. >> that's incredible. >> i do want to open it up for questions the microphone has gone wonky, so i'm sure you can hear me because i have a very loud voice. so just throw your hand up in hi general direction, right here. >> what are you describing is a problem that includes culture on a cultural change starts with individual taking action. who are the individuals you hope will read the book and take action? >> the question is who are the individuals you hope will read the book and take action. thank you. >> ultimately what everyone must understand is that the military, as glen was very -- a separate society and that's a tremendous danger because we don't under the military. you question is very astute because you're focused on what can happen. how can we have change in this situation? i describe in the public how difficult that change us because studies show in the united states in the military is the most venerated institution, and it's an ama