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Here's a guy who had an atrocious experience here in prison and yet he has been among the most vocal supporters of normalizing relations. >> tao: it took several trips to vietnam. and so he could see vietnam in a different light. it's no longer a war. it's a country with people. >> anthony: have you been out with returning veterans from -- >> tao: oh, yes. all the time. >> anthony: did they often want to go to the area that they served? >> tao: oh, yes. >> anthony: did they often even meet with the people they fought? >> tao: yes. >> anthony: b-52 pilots come to the areas that they unloaded th...

Of ow former fleet. the planes are old enough to have been flown by the grandfathers of today's pilots, and their official name, the strattofortress, just sounds like the heady era of their birth and american military supremacy. now they are at work in america's longest war, part of the pentagon's belief that fighting from 20,000 feet will save the lives of american fighters on the ground. and about how the name of the b-52s means different things, entirely different things to different generations, in a later era the b-52s were only weapons of peace and joy and later karaoke. "love shack" and...

The mere sound of the alpha-numeric combination b-52 means something very powerful to folks who were around during the vietnam war. the b-52 was the military pride. cold war era. a heavy lift high altitude long-distance bomber that brought us the appropriately named rolling thunder bombing campaign and generally delivered death and terror from the sky several hundred pounds at a time. there it is. eight engines in all under those wings. unbeknownst to a lot of folks, b-52 bombers have returned to the skies, this time over afghanistan. they are part of a stepped-up campaign that was dropped upw...

There it is. the last thing before we go tonight. it's a name from the past that may conjure many things, including nothing, largely depending on your age and your consumption of history. the mere sound of the alpha-numeric combination b-52 means something very powerful to folks who were around during the vietnam war. the b-52 was the military pride. cold war era. a heavy lift high altitude long-distance bomber that brought us the appropriately named rolling thunder bombing campaign and generally delivered death and terror from the sky

Alpha-numeric combination b-52 means something very powerful to folks who were around during the vietnam war. the b-52 was the military pride. cold war era. a heavy lift high altitude long-distance bomber that brought us the appropriately named rolling thunder bombing campaign and generally delivered death and terror from the sky several hundred pounds at a time. there it is. eight engines in all under those wings. unbeknownst to a lot of folks, b-52 bombers have returned to the skies, this time over afghanistan. they are part of a stepped-up campaign that was dropped upwards of 4,000 bombs an...