storied love affair for the ages and daughter from a previous marriage, robin. i love you, dad i promise you will never walk alone that you never walk alone. reporter: his casket then driven to the world war ii memorial he helped create. a memorial to peace, he said. and to the half million soldiers unlike him who did not return he was never able again to button his shirt or sign his name as he had. he saluted, and he made your acquaintance with his left hand. reporter: family friend savannah guthrie. he stood for principal. he stood for dignity and even when he couldn t stand any longer, at the casket of an old friend, who could forget, still he stood out of respect and out of honor taps is now sounding for this soldier of america but we know, as long as we see each other not as enemies but as