By Todd Hatton
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Murray, KY – This past Thursday, Americans celebrated Veterans Day. This remembrance of the country's 25 million servicemen and women who survived their wars began in World War One's aftermath and took its final form in 1954, when US President Dwight Eisenhower, himself a veteran of the First and Second World Wars, signed the first Veterans Day proclamation. Michael Freeland is an adjunct professor at Austin Peay State University. He's also a veteran and is the author of Blood River to Berlin, a memoir of his time in the 82nd Airborne in World War Two's European Theatre. His new book, Time and the River, has just come out and he joined us in the studio to talk about the new book and the war-time experiences that shaped it.
In addition to Freeland's website, BloodRiverToBerlin.com, you can also get a copy of Time and the River at University Book and Bean in Murray.