special, remembering the life of pete seeger. er and activist died in january at the age of we now return to our 94. interview in 2004 in our firehouse studio. i asked pete to talk about his time serving in the military during world war ii. >> i first wanted to be a mechanic in the air force. i thought that would be an interesting thing. but then military intelligence got interested in my politics. my outfit went on to glory and death, and i stayed there in kiesler field, mississippi, picking up cigarette butts for six months. finally, they let me know, yes, they'd been investigating me, opening all my mail. >> pete seeger, when you came back, they continued to investigate you. >> well, i have assumed most of my life that if there wasn't a microphone under the bed, they were tapping the phone from time to time and opening my mail from time to time. who knows? >> but it was more than that, wasn't it? >> well, sometimes they'd have picket lines out, but, you know, in a crazy way all it did was sell tickets. i remember one concert di