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Though this book provides a powerful and engrossing social portrait of the World War I1 years, it cannot tell us anything about the lasting effects of these experiences upon children. First of all, it is not a scientific study. It would be impossible, for example, to find a control group with which to compare this population. A second problem is the letters themselves. Recall memorv is extraordinarilv fallible. We tend to recollect as our own experiences happenings that we heard about or read about. For example, one girl who was at Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 De-

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