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Here's a link to a nice radio interview with me from the Indianapolis NPR radio station's weekly "The Art of the Matter," at the 34 minute 30 second mark: http://www.wfyi.org/programs/the-art-... ...more

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All deaths are hard to bear. But losing a son is the hardest.

Memory of war always loomed large for Dwight Bogdanovic. After all, his immigrant grandfather volunteered to fight in World War I and his working-class father joined up with the Canadian Army to fight the Nazis early in World War II. Yet i Read more of this blog post »
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