Let Them Be Not Forgotten

They survived the Great Depression, helped win two world wars, lived through the birth of the space age, and witnessed the introduction of the internet. The real- life characters eulogized in this book were special not because they held prodigious political power or amassed large amounts of wealth but precisely because they were ordinary. They walked among us largely unknown but helped shaped and define the American character through the 20th Century. Most were part of what has been called "the