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[applause] thank you. That was a wonderful introduction. I started this book back in 2003 so its been a a tenyear odyssey but the seed for this book was actually planted many years earlier. It was back in the mid1970s when i was seven or eight years old. There was a day till i grew up in Westchester County new york a suburb just west of the city and the son of a history buff but unlike a lot of people who make that claim the history buff in my family is not my father. Its my mother and of her four children i seem to be the only one she passed the gene onto. She took advantage of that one day we were driving into the city from westchester and she pointed at a big building up on a hill. She told me that was the bronx va hospital and then she said something i have never forgotten. She said that there were still men in that hospital who had never recovered from being gassed in the
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