Richard Rubin is the author of Confederacy of Silence. He has written for the Atlantic, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Smithsonian, and New York magazine.
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In 2003, eighty-five years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he found dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interviewed them. All are gone ... SEE MORE