abstract:Thomas Childers was born in Tennessee where he was raised and latter attended the University of Tennessee and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He then attended Harvard University where he received his PH.
"After World War II, everyone seems to assume that there were these huge parades as soon as they reached the dock, but soldiers came home not as units but as individuals, " says ThomasChilders, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Soldier from the War Returning.