John remembers the WWII veterans at his family's dealership, and asks who will tell their stories once the last of them are gone.

In Bedford, Virginia, John shook hands with the sister of a soldier killed on Omaha Beach, then found her at her brother's grave.

On the 79th anniversary of D-Day, John offers practical ways to honor the veterans while some are still here to thank.

Columbus, Mississippi. Waterloo, New York. Charleston, South Carolina. John traces the many origins of Memorial Day.

John's kids cringe when he suggests a cemetery detour. His dad did the same thing to him. Here's why he keeps going.

Harry Miller lied about his age to join the Army, passed shells in a Sherman at the Bulge, and later helped plan B-52 strikes. Lunch with a living history book.

Two Lantow brothers jumped into Normandy with the 101st. Only their brother Larry, a tank officer, came home. John tells the Oklahoma family's story.

She served coffee and doughnuts from a Clubmobile and called it the life she wouldn't trade. John on Elizabeth Richardson, buried in Normandy.

He wrote about the ordinary soldier the way no one else could, and he died with them. John on the life of Ernie Pyle.

Ordered to hold at any cost at Gettysburg, the 16th Maine tore up its flag rather than surrender it. John on its colonel, Charles Tilden.

A destroyed assault gun on the N13, a Norman farmer and an MP, a French girl at a soldier's grave. John shares photographs of Sainte-Mere-Eglise in 1944.

Above Omaha Beach, 9,387 Americans rest facing home. John explains why every Normandy trip should start here.

"We had no thought of failure." John shares Bill Tucker's own recorded account of jumping into Sainte-Mere-Eglise with the 505th.

He flew an unarmed helicopter into fog behind enemy lines to rescue a downed Marine, then refused to break as a prisoner. John on Jack Koelsch.

Colonel Ollie Reed died in Normandy without knowing his son had been killed in Italy three weeks earlier. They now lie side by side.

Wounded again and again near Kumhwa, Lieutenant Ed Schowalter kept leading his company until the objective was taken. John visits his grave at Fort Benning.

First off his landing craft at Omaha Beach, he lost everything in the surf. E.T. Roberts fought on for 29 months and didn't speak of it for fifty years.

In 1938, Union and Confederate veterans met again at Gettysburg. Some children who watched are still alive. We're two handshakes from the battle.

Under siege at Bastogne, a 19-year-old paratrooper carried beer to wounded friends in his helmet. Decades later, it became a Belgian legend.

The 11th Pennsylvania's bull terrier was found guarding their dead on Oak Ridge after Gettysburg. Her bronze likeness still lies there.