CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Two people would seem quite different. They grew up in different ways and from different parts of the country. They're even 85 years apart in age. None of that matters in this wonderful friendship.

"Well, I don't feel 100," laughed Col. Joseph A. Peterburs. "Number one, I don't know how I'm supposed to act at 100-years-old!"

I first spoke to Peterburs in April when he was among 16 World War II veterans boarding a plane for the National WWII Museum.

"We're going to New Orleans!" Peterburs said.

It was a partnership between the Gary Sinise Foundation and American Airlines. Some Rossview High students out of Clarksville joined to learn the vets' stories.

"I served 36 years in the United States Army Air Corps and the United States Air Force," Peterburs said.

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