Dear Spira Students, On this Memorial Day weekend, I would like to share with you a very personal story. A few weeks ago, my stepfather Ivan Berend shared with me a memory of WWII that he first written in 1946 when he was sixteen. He has since written over thirty books on European history some of them translated into thirteen languages. He has been the Chancellor of Budapest University of Economics, and later enjoyed a very long career as Professor of History at UCLA. Becaus