Celebrate Veterans Day as veterans, family members, historians, and publishers share their remarkable stories and how they were able to bring those remembrances through the publishing process into print. Join us for an informative and uplifting panel discussion.
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
7:30pm – 9:00pm
92nd Street Y
New York City
The particpants are:
- Kurt Piehler, moderator; Director, Center for the Study of War and Society, Department of History, University of Tennessee; associate professor of history; author of Remembering War the American Way.
- David E. Cane, co-editor of Fighting Fascism in Europe: The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War, which contain his father’s wartime correspondence.
- Damon L. Gause Jr., son of the author of The War Journal of Major Damon “Rocky” Gause: The Firsthand Account of One of the Greatest Escapes of World War II, a POW’s memoirs of his escape from the Bataan Death March.
- Alexander Jefferson, Lt. Colonel, U.S. Air Force, (Ret); Tuskegee airman; author, with Lewis Carlson, Kriegie Chronicle: Memoirs of a World War II Tuskegee Airman and POW.
- Thomas A. Kindre, veteran; founder and first chairman of the Rutgers Oral History Archives of WWII; author of Boys from New Jersey, concerning the impact of WWII on his college classmates.
- Deborah A. Gershenowitz, editor for history and law, New York University Press.
Tickets are $25 and can be ordered online at http://www.92y.org or by calling (212) 415-5500. Ordering online will save 50% on all service fees. Order Code: T-LH5LC03-01
The 92nd Street Y is located on Lexington Avenue between 91st and 92nd Streets. Discount parking is available at the GGMC Garage on 92nd Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.
For directions by bus or subway visit http://www.92y.org or contact customer service at (212) 415-5420.
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