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If you don't know your own story, how can you determine what you are?


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Quotation by Chuck Keeney:


So I mean there are enormous chunks of our own history that are just missing. It's no wonder that the people in our state have an identity crisis; we don't know our own story. If you don't know your own story, how can you determine what you are?"


Chuck Keeney     (more by this author)

Type: Prose
Context: Newspaper
Context Details: Discussing history of coal mine wars.
Source: https://www.wvpublic.org/post/do-you-kno

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I was born in 1970 in Wheeling, WV and have lived here all my life. I come from mostly Irish Catholic coal miners and railroad workers. My original academic interest was in teaching foreign languages studying both French and Spanish in High (more...)
 

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