31.   He became a second lieutenant and spent a year with the famed Tuskegee Airmen in Alabama but never became a pilot because of poor eyesight, his son said.

32.   He became, his son said, the largest private property owner in the county.

33.   He continued to write late in life but his work was not published, his son said.

34.   He helped teach such soldiers how to speak again, said his son, Arthur M. Eisenson, with whom he wrote the last of his many books.

35.   He loved to tell funny stories and give money to people in need, the son says.

36.   He will watch the conference by satellite, his son said.

37.   Her son said she left for New York within two weeks of suffering the seizure in early May that led to the discovery of the tumor.

38.   Her sons said children were routinely hit, kicked and made to eat dirt.

39.   His eldest son said Soria had a passion for the woods, despite losing a brother nine years ago who also was crushed by a log.

40.   His parents called me up and told me what my son said.