I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
“I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.”
“After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.”