Finally...here's the long Memorial Day Weekend...and Saturday night the Foo Fighters are rocking Austin City Limits, followed by a fascinating documentary about the Vietnamese community struggling like everybody else to survive Katrina and it's aftermath...A Village Called Versailles...10 & 11pm
On Sunday, PBS will unite the nation with an evening that has become an American tradition. The multi award-winning NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT, featuring an all-star line-up in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra, honors the service and sacrifice of the men and women in uniform, their families at home and all those who have given their lives for this country. The top-rated show will be broadcast live in HD from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, and is co-hosted for the fifth time by Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise ("CSI: New York") and Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna ("Criminal Minds"), two acclaimed actors who have dedicated themselves to veterans' causes and supporting the troops in active service...7pm
And on Monday, see how the country dealt with it's economic crisis...in the 1930's. American Experience presents "Civilian Conservation Corps". Throughout the decade, the CCC put more than three million young men to work in the nation's forests and parks, planting trees, building flood barriers, fighting fires and maintaining roads and trails. Corps workers lived in camps under quasi-military discipline, and received a wage of 30 dollars per month, 25 of which they were required to send home to their families...8pm
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