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aga m tha young man sitting at the kiuhan table kn 1981. Tha feeling become, dearerMissing In Action That • all ha ll evar be HatedM.• • a aOther meme.tos in that bo. l»U the atory of that fateful early morning. They were recovered from hia locker on the ship: a rueted razor and ring, a 1936 British three pence A pin Baying remember Pearl Harbor In red. white and blue waa dipped into that boi. aa waa a gold medal and nbboa commemorating the Second World War. the Big One Mia purple heart la Inched up elaewhere. having been kept by Elizabeth Kennedy until her 1973 deathHa graduated from Tilonka High School in 1936. five years younger than Paul. Ha played thirdbate, and he waa a good student, yeah. Paul reminiscedHe was a fine looking young man. said Paul'a • •fe. Claudia Ha want to college for a year in Tyler. Te» to take a commercial course But he gsve ihat up for e couple years of farming back in Tyke. Then to the U.S. Navy on July 8. 1940 He was a fireman first class, not supposed to tee battle, but on a ship you can't get away. He was dead wnhin 17 months of enlistment, stoking the U 8 8 Super Dreadnaughi Oklahoma a bodara when the torpedo kn and knocked out the ship's bottom, buik m 1913lie waa a Gold Slnr Boy. aaid tha Tnonka Service Record of the Veterans of Foreign Ware. A gold starK«nn«dy... p. 2
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