From the Book - Regular Print
Tom Gates, a retired fireman --
Bob Gates, a retired police officer --
Marc and Noreen Levison, a paramedic and a nurse --
Lloyd (Pete) Haywood, a former gangbanger --
Claire Hellstern, a nurse --
Ed Reardon, a paramedic --
Robert Soreghan, a homicide detective --
Delbert Lee Tibbs, a former death-row inmate --
Haskell Wexler, a cinematographer --
Tammy Snider, a Hiroshima survivor (hibakusha) --
V.I.M. (Victor Israel Marquez, a Vietnam vet --
Angelina Rossi, his mother --
Guadalupe Reyes, a mother --
Rick Rundle, a city sanitation worker --
Randy Beuscher, an associate architect --
Antoinette Korotko-Hatch, a church worker --
Karen Thompson, a student --
Dimitri Mihalas, an astronomer and physicist --
Hank Oettinger, a retired printer --
Ira Glass, a radio journalist --
Kid Pharaoh, a retired "collector" --
Quinn Brisben, a retired teacher --
Kurt Vonnegut, a writer --
Bruce Bendinger, an advertising executive and writer --
Doc Watson, a folksinger --
Vernon Jarrett, a journalist --
Peggy Terry, a retired mountain woman --
Bessie Jones, a Georgia Sea Island Singer (1972) --
Rosalie Sorrels, a traveling folksinger --
Tico Valle, a young man --
Lori Cannon, "curator" of the Open Hand Society --
Brian Matthews, an ex-bartender, writer for a gay weekly --
Jewell Jenkins, a hospital aide --
Justin Hayford, a journalist, musician --
Matta Kelly, a case manager --
William Warfield, a singer and teacher --
Carlos Cortez, a painter and poet --
Vine Deloria, a writer and teacher --
Helen Sclair, a cemetery familiar --
Maurine Young, a mother --
William Herdegen, an undertaker --
Rory Moina, a hospice nurse --
Mamie Mobley, a mother --
Dr. Marvin Jackson, a son --
Kathy Fagan and Linda Gagnon, mothers.
