Chapter 9

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They used to print your address in the newspaper if you did anything deemed newsworthy. In St. Louis, Kevin Saunders, 28 years old, of “2408 Bougainvillea Street,” witnessed the fire at the end of the street. “There was smoke everywhere, and the flames shot up in the sky, and the heat was intense,” he said. This was printed in the Times-Dispatch on Sunday morning December 7, 1941, on Page 1 down the right column, where the crime, or fire, or natural disaster, usually a flood, top story was always placed. “There is no glory in war, but men and women do glorious things in wartime,” said Ensign, then Lieutentant, Edward Olszewski, United States Navy, World War II flying ace, with four kills, including two German Junkers 52 transports, and two Jap Mitsubishi Zeros over Iwo Jima, the only U.S.

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