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When I sent this book to my mother for her comments and corrections, she wrote back to say, "In some parts your ego is showing, bu mostly it's fine." Forty years after I left home for the last time, she still has my number.

— Tom Brokaw A Long Way From Home (2002)

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It is, I believe, the greatest generation that any society has ever produced.

They married in record numbers and gave birth to another distinct generation, the Baby Boomers. They stayed true to their values of personal responsibility, duty, honor and faith.

To the men and women of the greatest generation with gratitude and admiration

The Greatest Generation Speaks (1999)

Any journalist would be flattered to have his or her work become a catalyst for reflection and examination, but I have no illusion about my personal role in all this. I was merely the reporter, the vehicle for people's stories and the lessons they contained.

The Greatest Generation Speaks (1999)

When I was a young man in the 1950s, right after World War II, there was a special category of hero everyone in America recognized: the men who wore the distinctive ribbon and star of the Medal of Honor. In those years when the legacy of war and sacrifice, bravery and humility was a touchstone in every community, the very mention of the Medal of Honor was part of the secular liturgy, an ideal to be honored and always remembered.

A Special Category of Hero (2003)

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