CSPAN2 Book TV September 15, 2013
History buff but unlike a lot of people who make that claim the history buff in my family was not my father. It was my mother and of her four children i seem to have been the only one she passed that gene onto. She took advantage of that one day we were driving into the city from westchester and she pointed out a big building up on a hill. She told me that was the bronx va hospital and then she said something that i have never forgotten. She said there were still men in that hospital who had never recovered from being gassed in the First World War. And this made quite an impression on a seven ...