Two children of U.S. Civil War veterans reminisce about their fathers' war experience for this Veterans Day, 2014. Ninety-two-year-old Iris Lee Gay Jordan and 93-year-old Fred Upham were born very late in their fathers' lives, but both have vivid memories of stories about the war. Fred's father even met Abraham Lincoln after his release from a POW facility and bared his battle wounds for the president to see.
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SENIOR VIDEO PRODUCER: Hans Weise
INTERVIEWER: David A. Lande
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS: Getty Images and The Library of Congress
SPECIAL THANKS: Iris Lee Gay Jordan and Fred Upham
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