The Story

Dick speaks to two men about the last day of the Vietnam War - a Marine embassy guard, and a Saigon teenager trying to escape with his family.

Ahmed Abdullah recently visited his wife and children who now live in Syria. He returned to Baghdad shortly before Saddam Hussein received his death sentence. His reaction, like those of the people he talked to, is deeply ambivalent.

Cassio Batteast became a biological father at the age of 18. But it wasn’t until his sister was deployed to Iraq and he took in his two young nephews, that he really became a father. The then 28–year-old quickly realized what it takes to be a full-time parent and how being a father, or father-figure, is important not just for the kids, but the community at large. Also, a pharmacist, a social worker and a geriatric physician plan a wedding for a dying cancer patient in an inner-city Baltimore hospital.

Harry Bernstein was born in 1910, on a narrow street in a small English mill town. He was just a child when World War I broke out, but he remembers it vividly. Many young men left to fight and never returned. When their families got word, they poured into the street to grieve and be consoled by their neighbors.It was one of the few times Harry can remember that the Jews and Christians on his street came together. The rest of the time, they lived in strict separation - the Jews on one side of the street, Christians on the other. Now 97, Harry Bernstein has written a book about his childhood memories of that street.