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.

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.