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With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.
My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.