YORKTOWN, NEW YORK — Rishi Sharma interviewed Nils Mockler, a 100-year-old Marine veteran from Yorktown, New York. Sharma has conducted more than 3,000 interviews with World War II combat veterans over a 10-year period for his project, Remember WWII.

Mockler served as a combat intelligence scout in the Marine Corps. His first engagement was the Battle of Iwo Jima. "Well, the hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was," Mockler said.

Sharma, who is 28 years old, began interviewing veterans a decade ago by driving around his Southern California neighborhood. He then created a map to expand his outreach to veterans across different locations. "For the last 10 years, I've been on the mission to interview every single World War II combat veteran," Sharma stated. "And I've quite honestly spent every single day of the last 10 years doing that."

"There are real superhero World War II vets out there, and I want to meet them," Sharma said. "Because for so long they have been the moral compass of our society. Just the advice that they impart silently steers the ship of this country."

Sharma provides recordings of these interviews to the veterans' families. Remember WWII is funded through donations. Sharma has no military background; his parents immigrated to the U.S. from India.

Sharma's work documents the experiences of World War II veterans. Approximately 700,000 World War II veterans were alive a decade ago, while approximately 30,000 remain alive today. Sharma's objective is to capture the narratives of these individuals.