It's difficult not to be left in speechless awe of a veteran as he calmly tells you what he knows and believes. Fox and Friends has just finished interviewing a paratrooper who invaded Normandy. In a measured monotone he described his injuries — hit by a grenade thrown by a German over a hedgerow, left for dead, then hit again by a shell when he woke up half an hour later, before being "patched up pretty good" and jumping into Holland for Operation Market Garden a short time later.

Was he surprised that the World War II Memorial took so long to be come about? No, he said, "we weren't thinking about it. We came out of a great depression, fought a world war and won. When we came back we said, 'We don't want to be in another depression,' and went to work.'"

What did he think about Iraq? Was it justified? "You see," he said, "after we found all the concentration camps, the graves and the ovens, people criticized us for not acting sooner. We couldn't have acted sooner; all of that went on while we had a navy at the bottom of the ocean and were training with broomsticks. Today, we found another dictator who was doing the same things to his own people; we removed him, and still we are criticized. But yes, I think it was the right thing to do."