>>> BETWEEN GETTING THROUGH SECURITY, CHANGING GATES, AND CHASING KIDS, AIRPORTS CAN BE BUSY PLACES.

BUT YOU MAY WANT TO BUILD IN A LITTLE MORE TRAVEL TIME THE NEXT TIME YOU VISIT O'HARE OR MIDWAY TO ENJOY AN ART EXHIBITION.

ARTS CORRESPONDENT AGE ALITO HAS THE STORY.

>> Reporter: SO YOU'RE HEADED ON YOUR NEXT GETAWAY, AND JUST AS YOU TURN TO YOUR GATE AT THE AIRPORT, YOU'RE GREETED BY SOME OF AMERICA'S UNSUNG HEROES, OUR VETERANS.

>> THOSE THINGS BRING BACK MEMORIES .

SAD MEMORIES.

I STILL REMEMBER THEM ALL THESE YEARS .

THEN TO BE PICKED TO GO TO O'HARE WAS A GREAT HONOR.

>> Reporter: FEATURED ON A WALL OF PORTRAITS ARE TWO LOCAL VETERANS .

101-YEAR-OLD WORLD WAR II VETERAN , AND KOREAN WAR VETERAN RICHARD NELSON.

>> THEY TALK ABOUT US AS THE VETERANS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE KOREAN WAR , AND THE OTHER ONE.

BUT HE HAS MORE THAN JUST SERVICE.

YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE AWARDS AND PLAQUES.

>> Reporter: THESE IMAGES WERE CAPTURED BY PHOTOGRAPHER THOMAS SANDERS.

HE'S MADE IT HIS LIFE MISSION TO SHARE THE STORIES OF VETERANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

>> I THINK EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES IS SOMEHOW CONNECTED OR RELATED TO A VETERAN .

WHAT'S REALLY INTERESTING ABOUT THIS PROJECT IS SOMETIMES, SOME OF THESE VETERANS HAVE NEVER EVEN TOLD THESE STORIES TO THE KIDS.

>> Reporter: IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BELMONT VILLAGE SENIOR LIVING , A STANDARD CONNECTED WITH VETERANS LIKE THESE ACROSS THE GLOBE.

>> I PHOTOGRAPHED MYRON, AND THEN WE MADE THIS SHORT TWO MINUTE FILM ON HIM , AND IT'S JUST SO TRAGIC, YOU KNOW, STILL , 100 YEARS OLD, HE STILL HAS TRAUMA.

>> THEY PICKED A LOT OF THE FELLOWS ALPHABETICALLY, A, B, C, AND THEN THEY STOPPED NEAR HIS NAME.

AND THEY ALL WENT ON THE ONE SHIP, AND THEN THEY CONTINUED ON WITH THE REST OF IT.

HE WENT ON THE SHIP BEHIND IT.

AND THE SHIP IN FRONT OF THEM SUNK .

GOT TORPEDOED, RIGHT?

AND HE WAS SAVED BY WHERE HE WAS IN THE ALPHABET, YOU KNOW?

YEAH.

>> THEY HIT A MINE , AND 31 OF MY BIRD BUDDIES.

>> IT WASN'T UNTIL THEIR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF AVIATION THAT PORTRAITS WERE ABLE TO BE DISPLAYED AT MIDWAY AND O'HARE AIRPORT.

>> AND THAT'S WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT THE EXHIBITION AT CHICAGO MIDWAY AND O'HARE IS THAT THERE'S JUST PEOPLE THAT ARE TRAVELING AND WALKING THROUGH THE HALLWAYS, AND HERE'S REAL AMERICAN LIVING HISTORY THAT THEY CAN LEARN ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY.

THE BIGGEST LONGEVITY TIPS I'VE LEARNED IS THAT YOU NEED A LOT OF SLEEP, YOU NEED EXERCISE , AND YOU NEED TO SOCIALIZE.

AND MOST PEOPLE , I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT IF YOU GET DEMENTIA OR ALZHEIMER'S, IT'S GENETIC, BUT THAT'S ACTUALLY VERY, VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF, OF INDIVIDUALS LET, THAT GET DEMENTIA OR ALZHEIMER'S.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS YOU CAN DO IN YOUR OWN ENVIRONMENT TO, TO AGE WELL.

AND THEN IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, ANY SORT OF ADVICE , YOU KNOW, WITH VETERANS , I JUST THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT IF YOU SEE A VETERAN OUT AND ABOUT , NO MATTER WHAT THEIR AGES, THAT YOU GO UP TO THEM AND JUST TELL THEM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

BECAUSE I, I DO THINK THEY, THEY DEEPLY APPRECIATE THAT.