dr. heilman and major geiger is that there are younger folks who care. we've got awhole foundation and a team of volunteers that are focused on capturing these stories and our mission is essentially to make sure that future generations don't forget, that future generations have a place they can go on the web and hear the voices and hear the stories of what it was like to be there and the sacrifices and to really understand the price that was paid for our freedom. >> they both talked about wanting the younger generation not only to know about their sacrifice but to learn from the attitude they had, the men and women who served us during world war ii had. you heard major geiger saying we didn't have a mart-ass attitude back in the day. and i heard in talking to some of these guys a hope, a wish that we could somehow return to, that that we could somehow return to a nation that respects its elders and is perhaps a bit more humble in their own approach to life and those who came before them. >> well, there's no question that things have changed. one of the t