. >> reporter: kevin griffin and jason engels were part of a louisiana-based team tapped by the governor'sffice to help lawrence brooks fix shotty repair work done after hurricane katrina. doz dozens of volunteers replaced the roof, no questions asked. >> the governor's words were fix the home and roof as if it were your own, and that's what we did. >> brooks wuas drafted into the second world war in the then still segregated u.s. army. brooks served overseas with the predominantly african-american 91st engineer battalion in places like australia and new guinea. he took a job as the unit's cook. >> when i was coming up, i used to watch my mother. my mother would show me the difference in our cooking. they got us together and it sent me to cooking school for about six weeks. >> what did it do you to be able to give back to a man like that? >> it kind of makes you re-evaluate yourself. volunteering on something like this gives you purpose. >> surviving not only the war but be the spanish flu pandemic of 1918 as well, lawrence brooks brings us perspective t to the current year. >> certainly o

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