“The Story of my Life…” is the title of a book by Alexandru Ouatu, WWII veteran, launched Friday, January 11. Seven years after the death of the author, Dr. Vasile Ouatu, manager of the Republican Experimental Centre for Prosthesis, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation (CREPOR), published his father’s diaries, in which he described the moments lived during the 66 of his 89 years of life. Speaking at the launch ceremony, Dr. Vasile Ouatu said his father’s life had inspired him to quit the job of a dental surgeon and to create and manage CREPOR, whose aim is to rehabilitate war invalids. Vasile Ouatu explained that at the age of 6 he was “his father’s hands” who returned from war without his left hand and with his right hand paralysed. The work unveils shocking moments from the author’s life, emotional traumas caused by the war, the difficult life he lived, his wife’s death, the loss of his comrades, and the hardships of disability. Ending his book, Alexandru Ouatu writes: “Be war cursed wherever it may take place on this beautiful earth! Be cursed those starting wars among nations!...” Alexandru Ouatu recounts in his book the history of his native village – Hajdieni, Glodeni district, editor of the book Ana Eremenco-Barbaneagra said. A patriot and a very good narrator, the author describes the reality of the historic moment, rural economy, land reform from that period, Ana Eremenco-Barbaneagra underlined. General Secretary of the Journalists’ Union, university lecturer Alecu Mocanu called Alexandru Ouatu a prototype of the interwar peasant. The book represents a living monument of this land, Mocanu said, underlying that such pages can stand at the origin of writing the real history of this country.