Reading it, I felt that you were caught by the extraordinary spirit of these people, in the same way Perry and I were as we did our research. We were literally awestruck at times, and would just exclaim to each other,”Listen to what s/he did!” “Can you believe this?!” It’s lovely to know that some of that came through in the accounts we wrote.

The stories of what these people (and so many others not in our book) did should be known by the world. It’s part of an education in what it means to be human, what the possibilities are for our species. And it gives us models of what we might be and do as our nation and the world face what sometimes seem to be insurmountable challenges. They faced worse, and look at who they became and what they did.

Thanks for helping to spread the word.