chris, one of the things that struck me as, you know, some of these guys joined the military by falsifying their birth certificates. you know, before he was in the army, jake larsonwho grew up on a farm in hope, minnesota, one of eight brothers and sisters. i want to give you a point of reference of how long ago this was. they didn't have electricity when he was growing up on that farm. and i asked him why did you initially decide to join the military? and i expected maybe talk about patriotism. remember, he was 15 years old, lied about his age. he said i did it for the money. we got paid $12 every three months. you put all of this into perspective, chris, you begin to understand that these guys that, first of all, depression people, they came out of the depression, they wound up in the military and then they became the greatest generation because everything they did to defeat hitler and the sacrifice they made and, again, they want us to remember the sacrifice the people who didn't come home made ultimately to the world we live in. >> extraordinary on the beaches of normandy but extraordinary even now in making the decision to go ahead and go and seem to be tota