The Beauty of What Remains

• More than 189,000 Americans lost a father in WWII and more than 200,00 lost a parent in the Vietnam War.
• Data from the US Census Bureau show that there are 76.4 million baby boomers alive today, and scores are turning to genealogy, many hoping to trace and locate lost members of their family.
• Nearly 1 in 5 Americans suffers from some form of mental illness
• Deinstitutionalization of mental health care reduced the population of state and county mental hospitals from a high of about 560,000 in 1955 to well below 100,000 by the 1990s.