" Building on that blossoming interest, I created a simple survey for students to interview family members. I had hit upon something that every teacher searches for - a tool to motivate and encourage students to want to learn more, for the sake of just learning it.

I was haunted, though, by one survey that was returned. When asked to respond to a simple question, a shaky hand wrote back in all capitals: I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU COULD MAKE YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO THROUGH A NIGHTMARE LIKE WORLD WAR II.

He was right - nobody can interpret history like those who were there. "

― Matthew A. Rozell , The Things Our Fathers Saw—The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation-Volume IV: Up the Bloody Boot—The War in Italy