ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I acknowledge and offer heart-felt thanks to all the people

who helped put TRIBUTE  together.

First, the people of the time, the World War II generation people who sat still for interviews, edited their stories, and were most kind and patient

while we worked to get their stories right.

Second, the students who leaped into what was for most of them an unknown arena and listened, heard, learned, and wrote.

And third, the teachers who contributed their time and effort to the

creation of the text and the logistics of this book,

worked with me to link students with people who were interviewed,

taught the students what to do, and graded their papers:

Mike Jones, Craig McCormick, Marie Meserve,

Terry Pittman, and Alice Rockhill.

I also thank the people who offered resources and stories

besides their own and all the men and women who loaned me

books, photos, videos, articles, papers, and valuable documents

which helped create this collection of stories.

Many thanks to all who donated funds to publish our manuscript.

Thanks to Cougar Graphics, Dean DuBois, and Cara Vandenbark

for advice and work done on publishing TRIBUTE.

Thank you Merle Merry for your pictures that add so much to the voice of this book, as well as all those who sent in the wonderful World War II time photos of themselves and gave us permission to publish them.

Thanks to the members of the Council's Board of Directors for giving the go-ahead and encouraging me throughout the entire project. 

A major thanks to Tricia Grantham, Kathy Makus, and Deb McKay

for doing the final proof-read for me.

My special thanks to Karl Johanson, Executive Director of COA&HS

and again to Tricia Grantham who had the idea in the first place. 

My hearty thanks also to all the Council staff who not only searched out people we might interview, but also put up with my breathless retelling of each new story and my sharing each new photograph I came across.

Highest regards to Allison Agnew, a teacher from Wenatchee who inspired us to do this book, and to the one who inspired her,

Tom Brokaw. 

His work opened up the floodgates of telling and writing that finally has given our country a real history of World War II.

My heart-felt thanks to one and all!

Diane Yettick

Project Editor