summerall the third, still living in charleston, donated the rights to the division museum in wheaton illinois with the attempt that the manuscript would be published by the museum. museum in 1998 and paul was his successor, supported summerall's grandsons idea to get this manuscript published. they shopped around looking for someone who could edit it and they would see it through to publication. ausa books in kentucky so the process to its completion. i was the editor but make no mistake, this isn't my book. this is general summerall's book. it mostly reads like i suspect his voice would sound. i basically copy-edited the manuscript. i reduced it via about 20% in length. there was a lot of family history in it. there were a lot of tangential comments, a lot of scores to settle with general summerall trying to use the memoirs as a vehicle for that. i also tried to standardize capitalization and corrections that sort of thing. in short i did what any commercial or academic press would have done in 1950, had the book been submitted to one of i also did a short biographical sketch of the general

illinois, chicago and the u.s. >> reporter: another event honoring our nation's veterans, the annual bronzeville parade and in wheaton north, a special assembly in honor of the army staff sergeant, a former student killed in afghanistan. >> i think it is so important that all of our veterans will come back from their service in the military and be treated properly by all of us on the home front. >> you can honor a veteran today go. to our web site at www.wgn.com/veteran's day. send us a picture of a vet who deserves recognition or write a note and you can check the features involving america's veterans. mark. >> tom, thank you. >>> the president overseas for the day but marking the occasion with troops in south degrea . he was presented a wreath with those who defended the area from the north 60 years ago. this is a day to remember, the president urged everyone to forget those serving on the front lines -- not to forget them, i should say, and serving the troops in afghanistan and iraq. >> (taps) >>> the vice president honoring american veterans with the laying of the wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. after