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must read book from Appalachia -- Appalachia:  Spirit Triumphant by B. L. Dotson-Lewis
This book gives you the stories in original dialect of mountain soldiers beginning with the Civil War
order book on www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnobles.com or Infinity Publishing  261 pages  for $18.95
read first-person  stories of how the veterans returned to the mountains to go to work in the southern Appalachian coalfields.

   next photo:  21 Veterans receiving high school diplomas - some Vets are in their 80s
 

Chapter 4

"Appalachian Warriors" - Veterans

 

USS West Virginia

Smoke pours from the USS West Virginia during the Japanese

 attack on Pearl Harbor on  December 7,  1941
   

  posted 10/04/04
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photo courtesy of Charleston Gazette