it too much because everybody speaks the same common language. >> yet it did create a sense of community in that was one common element that brought everybody from all parts of the country together. >> my dad had skills he never would have had because of the war. he became a machinist so he learned hydraulics and stuff like that. but he also had that grander world vision of places. that where he go and sights that he had seen. >> your work, not just your acting work, but your documentary work, some of stories in this book sort of capture, it's almost, inse seep area tones, that generation that how does it compare to where we are today? you said earlier, there are lessons that you can draw from history. >> well, we are, there were times i think when we have a national consciousness of perm