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Almost everybody turned out to the oak-covered slope where a semicircle of seats had been set up. White-bearded, 106-year-old Uncle Harve Sparks, who came over from Bean Fork Hollow, sang a tune in his squeaky voice when the parson introduced him. Tall Scott Partin himself was on hand to reminisce about the old feuding days: "There would be mountain prejudices and it would spread . . . You'd have to go in shootin' and come out loadin...
Soon everybody in the mountain miners' hamlet of Skin Fork, W.Va. - about 150 people - had heard the news that put their home town on the U.S. front pages: Private Kenneth Shadrick, 19, of Skin Fork, was the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the battle for Korea...
Half a World Away. Waiting for the telegram from the Government in Washington (which arrived two days later), the Shadricks assembled their recollections of Kenny. It was probably the football uniform, his father decided, that started Kenny on the way to his death, half a world from Skin Fork...
Until the family moved to Skin Fork four years ago and Kenny entered Pineville High School, seven miles away, Kenny's main interests were riding his bike, hunting a little now & then, and reading-mainly westerns and a magazine called Fantastic Novels. "All that boy liked was to sit hunched up there with a book and a piece of cold bread," said his father...
...favelas were combed by detectives disguised in patched rags and wooden clogs (the footgear of Rio's poor). Dried Meat's two henchmen, Smile and Fork, were caught after an exchange of gunfire in which a bystander was killed...