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>> i know your foundation takes veterans back to the sites of various battles and gives them a chance to pay homage to those who were lost and to their own service and their own memories. and you say in part one of the reasons you do it is to confirm it was not a dream. what does that mean? >> it means that i use my own example, as the many others i think would feel the same way. i was 18 years old when i landed in combat on okinawa. this followed 56 days aboard a troop ship after a lot of training. being out in the harbor of okinawa with suicide planes coming down, landing on the beach. 18 ye...

True. >> i know your foundation takes veterans back and gives them a chance to pay homage to those who were lost and to their own service and memories. you say one of the reasons you do it is to confirm that it was not a dream. what does that mean? >> to use my own example as many others would feel the same way, i was 18 years old when i landed in combat on okinawa. this followed 56 days aboard a troop ship after a lot of training being out in the harbor of okinawa with suicide planes coming down, landing on the beach. 18 years old, i didn't know what was going to happen. i knew i was well tra...

>> i know your foundation takes veterans back to the sites of various battles and gives them a chance to pay homage to those who were lost and to their own service and their own memories. and you say in part one of the reasons you do it is to confirm it was not a dream. what does that mean? >> it means that i use my own example, as the many others i think would feel the same way. i was 18 years old when i landed in combat on okinawa. this followed 56 days aboard a troop ship after a lot of training. being out in the harbor of okinawa with suicide planes coming down, landing on the beach. 18 ye...

Be true. >> i know your foundation takes veterans back to the sites of various battles and gives them a chance to pay homage to those who were lost and to their own service and their own memories. and you say in part one of the reasons you do it is to confirm it was not a dream. what does that mean? >> it means that i use my own example, as the many others i think would feel the same way. i was 18 years old when i landed in combat on okinawa. this followed 56 days aboard a troop ship after a lot of training. being out in the harbor of okinawa with suicide planes coming down, landing on the bea...

Was unbelievable. within two days, she could be convert to do a troop ship to carry an entire army division, 10,000 miles without refueling. you can't even do that today. >> steve: no kidding. so what do you want to see happen to this? because right now it costs $80,000 a month to keep it in a slip down in philly. if you don't get that money, it's going to wind up in the scrap heap. what do you want to see done with it? >> we're facing a challenging situation here, but we're optimistic because the word is getting out. what we want people to do across america is go to our web site, savetheunite...