War stories: remembering the sound and fury--and the joy--of the end of World War II.(EDITOR'S NOTE)

Publication: Smithsonian

Publication Date: 01-AUG-05

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Our copy chief, Karen Larkins, put together the special package about the end of World War II ("It's Over!" page 52). She got the idea during a Sunday brunch with her mother, Patricia, who told Karen that she had been on a train traveling from Pennsylvania to California that August 15 sixty years ago. When the train pulled into Baird, Texas, Patricia remembered, she...

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