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PEOPLE/ARTS Tuesday 10 OcTOber 2017
Meghan McCain Recent wave of WWII

joins ABC’s ‘The View’ memoirs may also be the last

as newest co-host

NEW YORK (AP) — Meghan channel, FX said the uned-
McCain was welcomed ited version will be avail-
to the air Monday as the able through its on-de-
newest co-host of ABC’s mand platforms.
“The View.” Now in its seventh season,
McCain, the daughter of “American Horror Story”
Sen. John McCain, will rep- regularly lives up to its
resent a conservative per- name with ghoulish and
spective on the daily chat violent displays.q
show.
She replaces conservative
commentator Jedediah In a June 13, 2017 file pho-
Bila, who exited “The View” to, New England Patriots
last month. wide receiver Julian Edel-
McCain joins a panel that man speaks with members
also includes moderator of the media following NFL
Whoopi Goldberg and football practice, in Fox-
co-hosts Joy Behar, Sara borough, Mass.
Haines, Sunny Hostin and Associated Press
Paula Faris.
Most recently, McCain NFL star Julian
served as host on Fox Edelman to read from
News’ “Outnumbered.” his new children’s book
“The View” airs week- This combination photo of images released by William Morrow show “All the Gallant Men: An
days at 11 a.m. Eastern on NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — NFL American Sailor’s Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor,” by Donald Stratton with Ken Gire, left, and
ABC.q star Julian Edelman is get- “Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Mid-
way,” by N. Jack “Dusty” Kleiss and Timothy Orr.
ting a different kind of re- Associated Press
‘American Horror’ tones ception these days — as a
down scene after children’s book author. By HILLEL ITALIE partment of Veterans Af- have the ability to write
Las Vegas shooting The New England Patriots AP National Writer fairs, some 558,000 World about their experiences.
wide receiver is out for the NEW YORK (AP) — Don War II veterans are still alive, Some of the memoirs I have
NEW YORK (AP) — FX net- season with an injury and
work is making what it calls is scheduled to perform a Stratton, one of the few re- a fraction of the millions published, the veteran has
maining surviving veterans who survived the conflict. had it edited professionally,
“substantial edits” to tone special reading of his new
down the gun violence book, “Flying High,” at the from the bombing of Pearl By the end of the decade, but that is an expense that
Harbor, had been holding the number is expected to not everyone can afford.”
in a scene set to air dur- Jewish Community Center
ing Tuesday’s episode of in Newton, Massachusetts. on to his memories for more drop to under 300,000. World War II books are a
than 70 years.
At the National World War II vast and popular genre,
“American Horror Story.” The center says Edelman
The network said Monday will read on Tuesday from “It’s a long story and a Museum, in New Orleans, a and soldiers have shared
hard one,” says Stratton, yearslong project to record memories in everything
it would substitute the edit- a special edition of the
ed version of that opening book, which originally was 95, whose memoir, “All the veteran’s accounts is wind- from Studs Terkel’s Pulitzer
ing down after compiling Prize-winning oral history,
Gallant Men,” about his ex-
sequence “in light of the released last year.
tragedy last week in Las Edelman’s appearance is periences on the USS Arizo- more than 9,000 interviews. “The Good War,” to “Band
of Brothers” and other best-
na, came out in 2016. “We “We have fewer person-
Vegas.” part of PJ Library, a global
The scene, filmed two Jewish children’s book pro- lost so many men that day, nel for oral history gath- sellers by Stephen Am-
friends of mine. I’m not sure ering, and the veterans brose. Many of the great
months ago, portrays an gram.
occurrence of gun vio- His book tells the semi- how many people are in- we’re getting have be- fiction writers of the mid-
terested in this anymore, come more difficult to talk 20th century, including Nor-
lence that, in the network’s autobiographical story of
words, “has sadly become a football-playing squirrel but I’ve had a lot of people to,” says Robert Citino, the man Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut
call me and say they’ve museum’s senior historian. and James Jones, served
all too common in our named Jules.
country.” Edelman’s father is Jewish read my story and recom- “I don’t think it’s surprising in the war and wrote clas-
that we have people who sic novels based on their
mended it to others.”
FX said some viewers might but his mother is not.
have found it traumatic. Edelman reconnected Stratton’s book is among a don’t recall events with 100 experiences. Virtually all of
recent wave of World War percent accuracy. We’re those authors have died.
While only the edited ver- with his Jewish heritage
sion will air on the linear during a 2015 trip to Israel.q II memoirs notable in part just dedicated to getting Some recent memoirs are
because it may well be the every oral history we can.”
posthumous works brought
last wave. Even veterans “The number of memoirs to publication by friends or
who were teenagers when that could be published in family members, such as
the war ended in 1945 are the coming years will get “Tail-End Charley,” which
at or approaching 90 by fewer and fewer,” says Ray compiles the private writ-
now. The 75th anniversary Merriam, whose Merriam ings of the late World War
of the Pearl Harbor attack Press has published numer- II pilot James E. Brown, or
came last December, and ous World War II books. “Nothing Impossible,” the
publishers will likely have a Merriam cites the age of story of World War II major
hard time finding fresh ac- surviving veterans as just and POW Wallace Clem-
counts for the 75th anniver- one factor. ent as remembered by his
saries of milestones such as “Many vets simply don’t friend Sean Heuvel. Others
D-Day (June 6, 1944) and feel they have an interest- were projects that began
V-J Day (Aug. 14, 1945). ing enough story to tell,” he when the veteran was still
According to the U.S. De- says. “Many don’t feel they alive. In 2011,q