In this memoir of a member of what has been called "The Greatest Generation," we have a firsthand account of a time so near and yet so far, a story of the highlights of the life of one member of that generation which, as Tom Brokaw said, "is a generation of towering achievement and modest demeanor, a legacy of their formative years when they were participants in and witness to sacrifices of the highest order." George Watson Camp was born on a farm four miles outside of Dallas, Georgia, the first of seven children. We read that "It was coming a flood" on the day he was born, and the doctor's...