Tom Brokaw - The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when t...

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The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

Tom Brokaw

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Mein Geburtsjahr, 1940, war der Drehpunkt Amerikas im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert, als die Nation sich prekär zwischen der Dunkelheit der Großen Depression auf der einen Seite und den Stürmen des Krieges in Europa und dem Pazifik auf der anderen Seite befand.

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