Who has had the most influence on your life?

Without a doubt my mother is the greatest influence in my life. She survived breast cancer while I was in college only to lose my father 15 yrs later to lung cancer, this only ten days before my twins were born. She threw herself into our lives, never gave up, and continues to press on with an amazing attitude.

She has always been and inspiration to my life and I can only hope that with age I will be half the woman she is.

I have to say my whole family, from my mother side. When my parents got divorced they took care of my mom, my brothers and me. Everybody was always there for us, because my father decided to disappear from the planet and didn't even paid child support.

This would have to be my Great grandparents. My Great grandmother was a widow in 1941 after losing my Great grandfather at Pearl Harbor that fateful morning and never remarried again. I was the only boy in my family so needless to say that a boy amongst women learns certain things that otherwise would not have been learned.

I remember her taking me to cultural events and she was so stoic and carried herself with pride. One of only 8 civilians to ever been awarded the purple heart from Pearl Harbor and she had it pinned on her which has never happened to anyone since. I come from a proud family and all of this was owed to the man I never met but provided the best life I could ever have.

My father. He has always worked very hard for everything that he has attained in his life.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.