Douglas Brinkley "The Boys of Pointe du Hoc"

You can't change the past, but it is possible to change the way we remember the past. President Ronald Reagan, in a pair of speeches he delivered in the summer of 1984, helped shape and change the way this nation remembers World War Two. To tell the full story, historian Douglas Brinkley has crafted what's almost two books in one -- the story of the brave soldiers who attacked a German position on D-Day, and the charismatic president who, 40 years later, paid tribute to them.