In 1999, I had my only interview with historian Larry Gara. He and his partner, Lenna Mae Gara, had just edited a collection of accounts of war resisters who had refused to participate in World War II. Gara was one of 10 men who shared their memories for this collection. Gara was a longtime faculty member at Wilmington College. He died in 2019.
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