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...stories," as they're called--are supposed to be played down when they talk to the kids. There are, however, few conversations that don't contain personal details. "I'm just trying to understand them for what they are--namely grown men trapped in boys' bodies," Jerry Funderberg says. "They get away with it 99 per cent of the time and think they're slick. I was the same and I can tell them about me," he adds, and proceeds to do so--complete with descriptions of armed robberies and an imaginary slash down the chest of a visitor...
Beauty's Lot. Parting from soldiers seemed to be Imogene's lot. Born on a farm near Amarillo, Tex., she had first married when she was only 18 and just out of high school. The man she married, Carl Funderberg, was more than twice her age. They had a baby...
...Funderberg, who became a gunner in a B17, finally divorced her. She was an "unchaste" person-that was the way he put it. He won legal custody of their child, but Imogene refused to give the baby up. She moved to Nebraska, got a job at the Alliance Air Base, where she met and married George Stevens. Sergeant...
...Funderberg finally went off to Europe, where he was shot down, captured and later released. He came home and married a widow named Mrs. Schmaltz...
...Mississippi. Dave Harris, black and 35, was suspected of stealing groceries from the Clayton Funderberg farm near Rosedale. Young Clayton Funderberg, 17, with two friends marched out with shotguns to the Harris cabin to "teach that damn nigger a lesson." Harris met them with a volley of buckshot, dropped Clayton dead in his tracks, fled for the Mississippi swamps. All night 200 men and boys searched for him, found him at dawn, cringing in an empty barn. They lugged him up to the levee, mocked his yammerings for mercy. "De Lord save me-" cried Harris as guns cracked about...
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