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Almost always the case. >> there's also alex as tom just alluded to a village called st. mary's which is about a 45-minute drive from colville sur mer here and a fairly large cemetery at st. mary's, about 4,400 americans buried there, and if you go through the logs of those who were buried there, you find to your complete shock, that there are 20 sets of brothers buried side by side in that cemetery, and that was, the burial site is not far from where there are enormous tank battles that occurred, at st. low, patton's third army coming there so there were enormous american casualties there. th...

His hand over his heart and he saluted in his child-like way all of those that had lain their lives before him to give him that sense of freedom. i think it's what fueled his love of history, what he's studying now in college and as a parent to give that sort of experience to your child and help them understand the significance of this, last night i had him watching "nightly news" with me because he's home and he said "i remember that mom. i have a profound memory of that, and you that," and it's extraordinary to pass the lessons on and hope it will continue to be passed on. d-day will never c...

What real war was like. they know what it was like and i think you hope in this sense with putin and obama that in an odd way it would make sure that rift didn't get too wide. >> it's a very intersection in history. >> alex just a few miles from here, from colville sur mer, where we are now, a few miles down the road there is a german cemetery at le cam and you go into that cemetery and the stones are very dark it's the exact opposite in terms of what you're looking at compared to what's behind us. you notice as chuck pointed out, there was very little left in between in the german army at tha...

I was going into battle. >> alex at this point, one thing that we ought not to overlook is that there's a lot of talk these days could we do it again? the fact is less than 1% of our population has been doing it again. they've been in iraq and afghanistan for ten years. they stepped up right away raised their hand went into uniform and served their country. the big, big difference is that if you were at home you made sacrifices. you were constantly aware of what was going on paid attention to it. you knew somebody in the war. the difference now we send mostly working class people for our wars ...

That check to young john forbes kerry, but, alex the area here looks remarkably the same. the villages, the hedge rows it looks remarkably the same as it did 70 years ago. >> yes we should say we're look at the president and french president francois hollande as they approach a very dignified and inspiring ceremony to say the least. it is interesting how many things can look the same and the way americans are received particularly in that part of france, talk about heroes. >> oh, boy. >> it are remarkable to this day, you see an older citizen of france and you identify yourself as an american ...