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Glennie Has Been KilledMrs. Jack Taylor—Staff WriterIt has been with mixed emotions that I have read the newspapers diligently and listened attentively to television the past week as final negotiations tor peace were made. The peace treaty was finally signed and the ceasefire came at last.There is happiness that it is all over. There is elation for the prisoners of war, so long separated from their families. There is sadness for those who won’t be coming home.My husband and I are among the fortunate ones.Our son came home unscathed after three years service in the Navy.Things didn’t work out that way for our Caruthersville neighbor’s son.Neighbors isn’t exactly the right term for the people who have lived next door to us 33 years. They are an intricate part of our family.When our youngest* son, Jeffery Fred, was a year old, our neighbors, the Alfred Cain family also had a son. I bathed him, diapered him and gave him bottles.As they grew the boys played football together, marched in the band, raided the ice box, hot-rodded their dad’s cars and even fought. A close relationship like theirs was — is never completely harmonious.Our son joined the Navy, Glennie Cain married and left for Army service.He had only been in Viet Nam a few weeks when he was wounded.We shared our neighbor’s anxiety until they were notified he had only minor shrapnel wounds and was sent back into the field.Just a few snort weeks later our neighbors were out rakingtheir yard. A car drove up and two Army officers walked up to them.I was sitting in my home and watched them, thinking it was a routine matter.In a moment Mrs. Cain ran up on the porcn and gasped, “Oh, Jo, Glennie has been killed.”Unless you have experienced a terrible moment like this you can’t realize how the world stops momentarily.Your heart seems to stop beating and words won’t come.Complete shock has you in its grasp...We loved Glennie like a son.As I close my eyes today I can see two heads, one blonde, one jet black, bent over a Monopoly game—their favorite.For the sake of the 20-year-old Glennies who won’t be coming home, I hope and pray this will be a lasting peace.
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Blytheville Courier News
Blytheville, Arkansas, US
Mon, Jan 29, 1973
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