It was never my intention to write to him for publication. I was telling him a story in return for his telling a large number in his book.
I note that he says that he received many manuscripts fomr vets like me. I visited a the National Archives (College Park Maryland)and ther Library of Congress. Neither one had a place to receive and protest manuscripts like the ones Mr. Brokaw received.
If we are, as he contends, the Greatest Generation, then that which documents our "greatness" deserves to be preserved.
After all the Library of Congress has all of Adolph Hitler's papers How about us?
Great Book Mr. Brokaw and in the right spirit of things. Mr. Brokaw, in lucid English and great sense of editing and selection serves well those old WWII GI's to whom he attributes greatness.
