The following introduction was developed by Amit Shah, Managing Director of Green Comma, as a prologue to the chronological middle and high school text by Tom Barber. Tom is a veteran in education publishing and has been the publisher and editorial director for social studies at the nation’s leading US textbook publishing companies.
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PROLOGUE
In August 1967, Guy Ulinskas, age 23, was drafted by the US Army but elected to join the air…
