A Rock Icon and a 100-Year-Old WWII Veteran Tell America’s Story

A rock icon and a 100-year-old WWII veteran tell America’s story

Harold “Hal” Urban, in the same dress wool Eisenhower jacket he wore after helping liberate a concentration camp 80 years ago, gave the man standing next to him a head-to-toe inspection Monday morning.

KISS Rocker Meets 100-Year-Old Veteran Who Liberated His Mom from Nazi Camp

Simmons: 'She was in the camp at age 14. She hardly talked about it at all. Now I know how close I came to losing everything.'

KISS rocker meets 100-year-old veteran who liberated his mom from Nazi camp

"If there weren't brave people like you – I wouldn't be here, and neither would my mother," Gene Simmons told Harold "Hal" Urban, who participated in liberating Mauthausen in May 1945.The post KISS rocker meets 100-year-old veteran who liberated his…

A Rock Icon and a 100-Year-Old WWII Veteran Tell America’s Story

Harold “Hal” Urban, in the same dress wool Eisenhower jacket he wore after helping liberate a concentration camp 80 years ago, gave the man standing next to him a head-to-toe inspection Monday morning. “He’s the one who sticks his tongue out?” Urban asked, before he met Gene Simmons on Memorial Day. “Not really my music. I like Bing Crosby and Lawrence Welk.”