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from high school there, he worked in his uncle’s service station before being inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942. He was in the military police until reassignment to a field unit which was sent to Okinawa. The war was over before his unit arrived at its destination so his overseas duty there and in South Korea lasted only 5 1/2 months.
During his military service, he was stationed at Fort Bragg, Florida and Camp Edwards, Mass., where he met and married Elizabeth Guenter of Edgartown, on Martha’s Vineyard, in 1943.
Returning to Halifax after his army discharge.; in January 1946, Buntin said he was not sure what he wanted to do, but he was certain he did not want to be a farmer like his father. Halifax is tobacco country, and in those days modern conveniences included a mule and two-horse wagon. The winters were spent cutting wood with which to fire the barns to cure the tobacco after it was harvested.
The state was advertising at that time for applicants for troopers. He answered the ad, passed the examinations and was employed April 1, 1946. Seven weeks of probating in the city of Danville, followed by seven weeks of VSP schooling in Richmond qualified him for the Rappahannock assignment. His rapport with people of the area has enabled him to serve well in this constant capacity.
BUNTIN RECALLED the coal
95.6%