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“Peace has been an important theme to me since my childhood,” says Sharon Rab, founder and co-chair of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. “I grew up in Fairborn, a military town. I remember hearing military airplanes taking off, and riding my bicycle to the Air Force museum. I was particularly fascinated by a mural that was, at the time, right inside the door, depicting Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War II flying into the decks of Allied ships. I remember thinking, I don’t understand.”

“I realized, as I grew older and was able to reflect back on what it meant to grow up in Fairborn, that the people I know most concerned with peace are members of the military,” says Rab, who grew up in a family with military experience and connections.

These themes were part of her acceptance speech for an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, awarded by ����ԭ�� at its fall commencement in December.

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