. >> professor, rivas rodriguez as the country changing and we are right now in the midst of tremendous change, will those histories that you gather from hundreds of world war ii veterans and their families become only more valuable once we can't talk to the veterans themselves? >> absolutely. we expanded to the korean and the vietnam era, a few years ago, ray. we are still interviewing world war ii veterans and we are looking at those experiences that today's young people can't possibly understand. what they went through. i teach a class, called oral history of journalism, and we are going to a small town in texas this coming weekend to interview people about the voting rights act. in 1975, a lawyer there had written to barbara jordan his congresswoman, and said here in texas, here in this little town, we are still prevented from voting can you help us out. one of the people we will be interviewed is a world war go veteran, who came back and was still adamant about trying to get better treatment, and better inclusion of latinos. he ran for city council five times before he was elected.