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Army Specialist Five Daniel C. Clater, son of Mrs. Mary L. Clater, Sperryville, and ! other members of the 7th | Infantry Division participated , in Exercise Flying Tackle, a s five-day field training exercise in Korea, which ended Dec. 11. During the exercise Specialist Clater took part in defensive operations under simulated combat conditions. Clater practiced repelling attacking forces with small arms fire and grenades and coordinating defensive moves with armor and artillery units. The exercise is part of the year-round training program that the 7th Infantry Division conducts to insure maximum combat readiness. Throughout the exercise offensive maneuvers against battle group frontline positions were launched. In addition guerrillas moved behind the lines to raid and harass command posts and supply lines. Clater is a medical aidman in Headquarters Troop, 2nd Battalion of the division’s 10th Cavalry. He entered the Army in April 1962 and arrivedover seas on this tour of duty in August 1965. The 21-year-old soldier attended Rappahannock High School.
In Tudor Times . . .
In England during Tudor times, Christmas celebrations began on All Saints’ Day, November 1, and continued until Candlemas, on February 2. “The Lord of Misrule” acted as master of ceremonies at the Yuletide festivities.
Much of the music for all this merrymaking was extemporaneous. Many songs were passed on by word of mouth from generation to generation — songs such as "The Boar's Head Carol,” referring to the “boar” or pig which was traditional at the Yule feast, and “The First Nowell.”
First in U.S. . . .
First Christmas carol composed in the United States was the work of an 18th century leather worker named William Billings, reports The Book of Knowledge. A tanner by trade but a tunesmith by inclination, Billings composed the carol, “A Virgin Unspotted.”
The song isn’t one that is still sung, and few hymnals now include it, but carol singers today owe William Billings a considerable debt of gratitude.
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