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curfew. His supervisors thereupon issued him a pass, and painted a sign on his truck saying: “This truck is not to be stopped.”

One evening, while heading for a carnival in the Rhineland city of Coblenz, Cary quite by accident met two other Rappahannock men, George Tidier and Tim Coats. The three had dinner together.

One slack day, Cary volunteered for KP, and did such a good job scrubbing the pots that the cook invited him back twice a week to make (and eat) fresh biscuits. We made 800 biscuits a day, he said.

Cary still remembers his rifle number, and will rattle it off with the same snap and precision he doubtless used before his drill sergeant six decades ago.

When World War II loomed on the horizon, Cary

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