Not kovach. We were introduced i tom, local scribe here years ago and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms ofbackground and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just wanted to give you background before ron and istart speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead end her, i know hope as they were called. Its the average lifespanwith 18 months for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was the game changer. The advent of penicillin, they had surgical units right behind the battlefield, right behind the front line and they had better evacuation back to the mainland. So by the end of world war ii we do have a cohort of about 2500 us veterans who are paralyzed and returned home and they had a chance at a normal life and this was the first cohort that was going to have this and it presented a dilemma and a bit of an issu
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So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.
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