The Story

Dick speaks with  Karl Marlantes who served in Vietnam and says ever since he has been dealing with the consequences of combat. 

In 1945, Alfred Klinger was just 17, a first-generation American who wanted to serve his country and in the process, feel something like a hero. He fought and was wounded in World War II.

Fifty-nine years later, Alfred got the idea to return to the place where he'd lost his friends. This time, he was 78 years old, and traveled by bicycle. Alfred talks with Dick Gordon about what it was like to arrive at Remagen. He found the old bridge over the Rhine bombed and broken, but in its place was a peace museum – a moving testament to his experiences and to the friends he lost. Also: Mike Heaney fought in the Vietnam War. And like Alfred Klinger, he wondered for many years what it would be like to go back.

Three years ago, Fatima Abdul Razaq and her husband were on their way to a family event in their town in Iraq when they stopped near an American convoy. As far as she knows, it was a soldier in the turret of a humvee who aimed his rifle at her and shot her in the face.Also: an update on our story with Captain Shannon Meehan. And: This Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year. Joyce Wadler recently investigated an item that marketers hope someone will buy: a $50,000 mattress.

Mubin Shaikh spent two years as an intelligence service mole inside an Islamist cell which was allegedly plotting to blow up Canada's Parliament buildings and behead the Prime Minister.