Flags of Our Fathers author comes to Ossining
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- January
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James Bradley, whose father helped raised the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima, will be a guest speaker this Monday at the Ossining Public Library.
Bradley wrote, “Flyboys” and “Flag of our Fathers”, which Steven Spielberg made into a movie. He says his “career as an author began with the search for my father’s silent past.”
Bradley, says the Ossining Public Library, specializes in historical nonfiction chronicling the Pacific theater of World War II and visited Hiroshima with his family in 1998 stopping where the flag was placed. James is the fourth child of flag raiser John “Doc” Bradley. Raised in Wisconsin, Bradley studied at the University of Notre Dame, Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan and graduated with a degree in East Asian History from the University of Wisconsin. He has traveled extensively, living and working in more than 40 countries.
He recently established a foundation supporting American and Japanese student exchange programs which offer young people the chance to experience each other’s culture.
Books will be available for sale at the Ossining library and he will sign copies for those who want this personalization.
For more information on the program, contact the Ossining Public Library, 53 Croton Ave at 914-941-2416 ext. 327 or 326.
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