The terror of forgetting is often juxtaposed to the nobility of remembering. I don’t get myself up in a bunch about it” (Terkel 1984: 3). Battles that were won, battles that were lost.
She said, “I can’t relate to World War Two. Designed as a history of World War II, Terkel selected and edited oral testimonies and narratives to combat the “disremembrance of World War Two.” He begins the book with his observations of a thirty-something woman he met in 1982. In 1984, radio personality and author Studs Terkel wrote The Good War.
