“I didn’t want to miss that war.” —17-year-old Clifton McCleskey
Bessie’s youngest son said these words to his mother and his sister Eula at the laundromat in Rotan in June 1944. He had just graduated from Dowell High School in Fisher County but still needed to have his mother’s signature on the enlistment papers since he was not yet eighteen. They drove to Roby, wh...
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