I dedicate my share of this book in loving memory to my sister, Roberta Hunter Kenney (1939–2011), who believed in seeing the best in people. She was a veteran who met and married her husband, Jerry, while serving in the Marine Corps. Years later, their love of people motivated them to give another two years of their lives serving in the Peace Corps.

C. Roy Hunter

I dedicate this book in loving memory to my father, Joe Eimer (May 10, 1913–September 4, 1996). Born in Poland and raised in Vienna, he was a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust. Surviving trauma and loss, he came to America with his brothers seeking a new life, but he never forgot where he came from. An active and energetic man, he built a new life and family in America while remaining connected to what was left of his family of origin, which had been decimated by the Nazis. Despite the traumas of his youth, my father was a warm, loving, sacrificing, and ambitious man who knew how to turn adversity to advantage.

Bruce N. Eimer