Wisconsin's veterans fought the forces of tyranny to secure freedom across the globe. Here, 18 veterans tell their stories from the European Theater of Operation from D-Day to VE-Day. Wearing Veterans of Foreign Wars cloth hats or POW-MIA caps shadowing lined faces, these veterans talk about things that belie their current comfortable appearances. They tell of hunger, loss of comrades, sleeplessness and battlefield injuries. Yet, whatever their experience, a common theme is echoed. Roderic Campbell, a medic from Superior, sums it up, "Everybody believed that freedom doesn't come free." The program's victory segment is muted, although celebrations were certainly much in order, in part because the liberation of the concentration camps was a sobering experience. John Regnier, Stevens Point, says, "If there was any doubt about why that war had to be fought, it was removed when you got into one of those camps." Further tempering the jubilation was the thought of what Allied forces would face in the Pacific Theater.