veterans

Fourteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.

Collected over ten years, presents interviews with the last remaining World War I veterans, aged 101 to 113, to paint a picture of a time and a generation that, despite memorials and history lessons, is quickly fading away.

Lawanda, a high school girl trying to sell magazines in order to earn money for college, stirs up a lot of controversy in her small hometown when her efforts lead to the development of a friendship between her and Garland, a World War II veteran living out of a bus up on Cade's Hill.