America Quote by Dan Rather

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

— Barney Ross

“One cold night in December 1941 I won a dance contest jitterbugging to “Tuxedo Junction” at the Denver Dance Hall. The next thing I…

— Charles Brandt

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think,…

— David Suzuki

I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read…

— Lois Lowry

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

— George Takei

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.

— Helmut Kohl

When the Second World War started, I was only five but I still remember... Being a witness... I wanted people to remember what happened…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't…

— Julia Child

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

— Erik Satie

When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.

— Nick Nolte

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

— F. Sionil Jose

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just…

— David Suzuki