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Ken Burns turns his camera on World War II

Broadcast: Midday, 04/20/2007, 12:00 p.m.

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With approximately 1,000 veterans of WWII dying every day, documentarian Ken Burns and the Library of Congress are launching a project to collect their stories. Burns, who has a new PBS special titled "The War" premiering in September, spoke about preserving the history of World War II recently in Cleveland.

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