My Life as I Remember It

"For a long while now I have had the sense that I must take the time and make the effort to write down some memories of my life for the sake of coming generations. I tried to start several times, but I found the going very difficult for several reasons:

1. How do you capture more than eighty years of life on the few pages of a book?
2. Memories are funny things. Two people who have had the very same experience often remember it differently. This shows us clearly that memories are subject t…