Alexandria Vitaliano was born in Denver two blocksfrom City Park a year after WWII ended. Her father was a seriously wounded Army veteran who landed in France on DDay when he was 22; he was always proud he was born on Flag Day. “As I grew older,” she says, “I became aware of the suppression of freedom of speech and state-owned news media in Russia, and I was very grateful and proud of the democracy that my father and all four uncles had fought for. That gratitude never ceased.”
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