2004 92nd Street Y
See also: 2005
"Veterans Day 2004: Sharing Stories"
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
7:30pm - 9:00pm
92nd Street Y
New York City
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.
Brief Biographies
- 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.