honor veterans at the world war ii memorial with a preview right now, we're joined live by wallin kiterrector of friends of the national world war ii memorial. good morning to you. thanks so much for joining us today. tell us about the ceremony later. >> we're going have a ceremony at 9:00. on the site design committee for this memorial, we said we were going to have revelry on the mall. i guess we are one of the earlier events for veterans day. it will be a wonderful day down here. each time we have an event, we try to focus in on a group that helps for victory in world war ii and this year, it will be african americans and the contribution they made and general julius will be the speaker. we're also having an honor flight to be flying in here. these are world war ii veterans that come in to see the memorial. they'll be here today. some of the tuskegee airmen will be here. it will be, i think, a wonderful event down here on the mall and in this very special location between lincoln and washington which i think indicates that as far as america is concerned, world war ii was the event of