it's multiculture, multiethnic city. to see it overcome with destruction, with bombing w hate due to nationalism, due to things like islamic phobia, really did it heavily. i have friend who are older than me who went through it who still suffer from ptsd and a lot of them turned to alcohol to deal with the kind of pain of losing so much. >> living there during that time was -- walk us through a normal day you remember. i know you were young. >> for a normal day it was really just it's bits and pieces basically, but a normal day for me was waking up in the basement. it's cold. it's -- [ indistinguishable ] there's life outside. there's very few windows, and you don't go near the windows because you're afraid somebody from the enemy line is going to be outside of that window. it's a constant -- no matter what you do even though you're a child your parents try to cook what food they have. the colder people are reading or some of them are playing. no matter what you do there's this fear, is this meal my last meal? is this to

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multiethnic, multi-religious, and a profound tolerance for diversity and unflinching commitment to the freedom of inquiry and conscience. like 17th-century amsterdam, what became new york city emerged as a leading global center of publishing, trade and finance, a magnet for immigrants, and a refuge for those persecuted, by other regional cultures. very different place from yankeedom. moving south, the anchor point of this vast culture of the midlands. it formed around the shores of delaware bay. the midlands is america's swing region. it was founded initially by english quakers. one of their tenants was they believe in inner light and the inherent goodness of humans. they welcomed people from many nations on the shores of delaware bay. it was from the very beginning, pluralistic, organized around the middle class, and spawned a culture of middle america and what we think of as the heartland, where ethnic and ideological. he had never been a priority, where government is seen as an unwelcome intrusion, and political opinion is moderate, even apathetic. it was an ethnic mosaic from the start. even around the resolution, pennsylvania had a german rather than british majority.