The War

Growing Up

Clip: Season 1 | 2m 12s  | Video has closed captioning.

Sam Hines discusses the excitement of joining up and the opportunity to be somebody more exciting than the kid you were.

Aired: 09/22/07

Rating: NR

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Corporate funding is provided by General Motors, Anheuser-Busch, and Bank of America. Major funding is provided by Lilly Endowment, Inc.;PBS; National Endowment for the Humanities; CPB; The Arthur Vining Davis …

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