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James Atlas is the author of Bellow: A Biography and, most recently, of My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale...
...effort to contextualize Sept. 11, and what saves Extremely Loud from being a kind of ode to its earth-shattering enormity is his presentation of other tragedies as predecessors. In addition to stories about the American destruction of Dresden, there is a transcript of an interview with a Hiroshima survivor, which Oskar plays for a school project, also reporting on the scientific dimensions of the atom bomb...
Largely forgotten in our current Social Security debate are the four million people under the age of 19 who now collect Social Security survivor benefits. If you know someone who lost a parent or had a parent become disabled while he or she was growing up, you probably know someone who relies on Social Security benefits. But, if Social Security payroll contributions are reduced in order to create private accounts, these survivor benefits, as well as benefits paid to the disabled, would almost surely be reduced, leaving millions of non-retirees also at risk...
...wartime Pope, Pius XII. That did not prevent them from shedding tears in 2000, when during a trip to the Holy Land, John Paul prayed at Jerusalem's Western Wall without making reference to Jesus and was reunited at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial with a Jewish concentration-camp survivor who remembered him as the young cleric who had saved her life as the war ended. Recalling "friends and neighbors" who perished, he said, "Men, women and children cry out to us from the depths of the horror that they knew. How can we fail to heed their...
...grown up in a different world. My struggle is to understand my role as a third-generation survivor, but to reclaim it as a facet of my own experience. My grandparents would never work in a Holocaust museum. They would find it too painful and would probably feel betrayed by how little visitors knew. My parents wouldn’t either. It’s just not how they choose to transmit the story...