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When is Daddy Coming Home? An American Family During World War II
Event Description: Author Richard Carlton Haney was four years old when the telegram came to his mother informing her that her husband, and Richard's father, had been killed in combat six weeks before the end of the war in Europe. Haney, a retired UW-Whitewater Professor of History, describes his father's role as a soldier and his mother's life on the home front in Janesville, based on his father's wartime letters, his mother's memories, his own historical expertise.
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