The Dream Daughter - Facts

 When Carly first hears the new single 'Ticket to Ride' by the Beatles, she is in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Chapel Hill is a town in North Carolina. It's home to a campus of the University of North Carolina, which is known for its basketball team. 

The Beatles' single that is released in 1965 is Ticket To Ride. "Ticket to Ride" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Issued as a single in April 1965, it became the Beatles' seventh consecutive number 1 hit in the United Kingdom and their third consecutive number 1 hit (and eighth in total) in the United States.

Carly and her sister live in Nags Head, North Carolina. Nags Head is a beach town on North Carolina's Outer Banks. It’s known for the towering sand dunes in Jockey's Ridge State Park.

Carly lost her husband in the Vietnam WAr. The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.  It lasted almost 20 years, with direct U.S. military involvement ending in 1973. 

In 1970 the Beatles break up. Their break-up is attributed to numerous factors, including: the strain of the Beatlemania phenomenon, the 1967 death of manager Brian Epstein, bandmates' resentment of McCartney's perceived domineering, Lennon's heroin use and his relationship with Yoko Ono, Harrison's increasingly prolific songwriting, the floundering of Apple Corps, the Get Back project (renamed Let It Be in 1970), and managerial disputes.

Hunter proves to Carly he is telling the truth when he tells her that the National Guard opened fire on some students protesting against the Vietnam War and four students were killed. The Kent State shootings  resulted in the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard, on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus.

Carly travels to 2001 in Princeton, New Jersey. 

Carly has fetal surgery. Fetal surgery also known as antenatal surgery, prenatal surgery,is a growing branch of maternal-fetal medicine that covers any of a broad range of surgical techniques that are used to treat congenital abnormalities in fetuses who are still in the pregnant uterus. 

Carly learns about Kangaroo care. Kangaroo mother care, which involves skin-to-skin contact, is an intervention to care for premature or low birth weight infants.

Carly discovers that Joe's name is not in the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The  site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing as a result of their service in Vietnam and South East Asia during the war. The Wall, completed in 1982, has since been supplemented with the statue Three Soldiers in 1984 and the Vietnam Women's Memorial in 1993.