I just heard a radio interview with the author of 'Higher Call', a book detailing the encounter of Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown during WWII...Stigler in his ME 109 and Brown in his badly damaged B-17...and Stigler's decision to escort him out of German airspace, rather than shoot him down.

The following video is from their first face-to-face meeting, many years later.

Show Your Thanks to World War II Vets by Watching This 2-min Video

My father Alan -- like many veterans -- never talked about WWII, except for one or two humorous incidents. Passing away at age 63, he was decades from being able to visit the memorial. My godfather George however, still meets regularly with his buddies from the the 10th Mountain Division. I was named Norman after a mutual friend of my father and godfather -- who died while serving in Italy during the war.

Watch the video here.

PBS Tempo video with Kurt Gimson

This is an interview with my good friend Kurt Gimson, whom I've known for close to 40 years. HIs real claim to fame is that he's always played a mean game of table tennis!