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Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. Perhaps no event to find the 20th century more than World War Two.

A battle of good versus evil, a story of atrocities, we hope will never happen again.

Of the 16 million Americans who served our nation around the globe during that war, only about 167,000 are still alive today.

180 of these heroes are dying every single day. And with them go countless stories of heroism, of depravity that they witnessed, and of honor in which they participated perhaps unmatched at any of their time in history.

Today we're going to talk about their stories and the lessons we can all take from them.

As we walk through the arc of World War Two, with the filmmaker who has made it his life's mission to make sure the brave souls who fought and won that war for us are never forgotten.

He's interviewed so many members of the greatest generation he's lost count. His dozens of documentaries have taken him to the battlefields of Europe, the Pacific, and here at home in Hawaii.

We're a Sunday morning attack propelled America into World War Two.

Tim Gray is the founder and president of the World War Two Foundation and a documentary filmmaker.

Tim Gray, welcome to the show. So great to have you here.

Thank you, Megan. It's a pleasure to meet you.

Oh, the pleasure is all I might have enjoyed your work for a long, long time. And appreciate the personal touch you put on everything you do.

I'm going right to the guys who fought this battle and getting their take on it before that's no longer possible. It's hard to imagine that there will be a time on this earth where there are no more members of the greatest generation to walk us through this history.

These are precious souls still walking amongst us.

It's amazing when you think about the fact that you can talk to people who actually saved the world.

I mean, I can't remember. I mean, I can't talk to George Washington. I can't talk to Benjamin Franklin.

I can't talk to a lot of those people, but I can actually talk to people who were involved in World War Two and actually played a role in saving the world, which I think is extraordinary.

But it is also a very short window that we have to talk to these people.

And I think, you know, it's just amazing that we have that opportunity.

And I think it's just a great opportunity to start there because you think of the greatest generation. And in particular those who fought in World War Two, there are some seam lines that pull them together and that describe most of them.

And you're you spent more time with them than anyone. How would you describe these guys? I mean, what is it about them? What are some of the adjectives that jump out of you?

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