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Kay Kennedy, author, felt that stories about the past should be told by those who were there, who witnessed history firsthand and had emotional responses to it. In addition to the historical context and timeline of history provided by the author, 19 talented individuals contributed a total of 24 stories about their memories of past events, from World War II to Hurricane Katrina.
The book’s storytellers are not historians, government officials, or military leaders, but instead are ordinary citizens who watched, sometimes in awe and sometimes in horror, the ways our society changed after World War II. Since the late ‘40s, they have all had front row seats to history as it was happening, via television, and some were present on the scene.
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