The author's family at the Sakeo refugee camp in 1982, before she was born. (Courtesy Soreath Hok)

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Rosalynn Carter helped me, and thousands of other Cambodian refugees, survive

Soreath Hok was born in a Cambodian refugee camp after her family, like thousands of others, fled the fall of the Khmer Rouge. They survived because of the groundwork laid by former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who raised money for food, shelter and medicine for the refugees, Hok writes.

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I was in 4th grade when John F. Kennedy was shot. I remember it like it was yesterday

It's been 60 years since JFK was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Deborah Sosin was a precocious fourth grader in '63. She remembers where she was when she learned the news, and how she watched the story unfold on television in the days just after the assassination.

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