They recount their experiences from Pearl harbor to D-Day. Noteworthy in this documentary is the involvement of Wisconsin's own in benchmarks of the war. Consider the attack on Pearl Harbor.

At the program's start, Will Lehner of Stevens Point remembers being stationed in Hawaii, getting an order for general quarters at 3 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, and thinking, "What is going on here?"

As young recruits became battle-tested, they saw their emotions harden. Walter Klunk of Green Bay talks about losing his two best friends 20 days apart.

In telling their stories, the veterans often well up with emotion. Events from more than a half-century ago are fresh in their minds. "It's still the big thing in our lives," says George Miller, Rion. "It changed things for us so much, to have been through a situation like that. Maybe that's good, maybe not, but it absolutely remade your life."