this interview is there the veterans history project and conducted by the kenan research center. i was born three weeks before pearl harbor and i did not meet my father until the end of 1945 when he came home from service. he and five of his brothers wore the uniform in world war ii and four of my mother s brothers. so we were heavily invested in that war, and my earliest memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. you know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples, they had maybe one or two kids. the war broke out and then the father is gone and he s gone mostly for the duration of the war. so we my mother and i lived between her mother s house and the little town of mar kate, texas, and his mother s house in the little town of franklin, texas, which was 28 miles away. we would ride the bus between those two. my mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one plac
this interview is there the veterans history project and conducted by the kenan research center. i was born three weeks before pearl harbor and i did not meet my father until the end of 1945 when he came home from service. he and five of his brothers wore the uniform in world war ii and four of my mother s brothers. so we were heavily invested in that war, and my earliest memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. you know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples, they had maybe one or two kids. the war broke out and then the father is gone and he s gone mostly for the duration of the war. so we my mother and i lived between her mother s house and the little town of mar kate, texas, and his mother s house in the little town of franklin, texas, which was 28 miles away. we would ride the bus between those two. my mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one plac
memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. you know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples, they had maybe one or two kids. the war broke out and then the father is gone and he s gone mostly for the duration of the war. so we my mother and i lived between her mother s house and the little town of mar kate, texas, and his mother s house in the little town of franklin, texas, which was 28 miles away. we would ride the bus between those two. my mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one place and we moved to the other. i can remember a little alligator embossed cardboard suitcase, we would pack all our belongings in and head down the road. those were the years of world war ii and i have a memory of scrap metal collections and saving bacon grease, which i have no idea what they did, something to do with ammunition. you know, i remember my mother they only gave
he and five of his brothers wore the uniform in world war ii, and four of my mother s brothers. so we were heavily invested in that war. and my earliest memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. you know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples. they had maybe one or two kids. the war broke out. and then the father is gone. and he s gone mostly for the duration of the war. so we my mother and i lived between her mother s house in a little town in texas and his mother s house in franklin texas, which was 28 miles away. and we would ride the bus between those two. my mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one place, and we d move to the other. had a little i can remember a little alligator embossed cardboard suit case we would back all our belongings in and head down the road. those were the years of world war ii. and i have a memory of scrap metal collecti
stay beyond august 31st if necessary? depends on where we are and if we can ramp these numbers are to 5,000 to 7,000 a day coming out. if that s the case, they ll all be out. so americans should understand that troops might have to be there beyond august 31. no. americans should understand that we ll try to get it done before august 31st. if we don t if we don t, we ll determine at the time who is left. and? and if there s american citizens left, we re going to stay and get them all out. situation on the ground in afghanistan remained tense as the taliban now dig in and assert control over their country. our veteran chief veteran correspondent richard engel is in kabul again for us tonight. reporter: the u.s., did led evacuation is finally moving quickly and movingly from the military side of kabul airport. planes arriving and departing around the clock. it s a far cry from the bedlam monday when thousands of afghans broke into the airport, so desperate to