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Thompson grew up on a small farm in rural Gassaway, W.Va. The middle child of three, he was the first member of his family to receive a university degree. Neither his father, an electrician, nor his mother had more than an eighth-grade education, though his mother later went back to school. Today Thompson sees his family's struggle to eke out a living as a source of personal strength. Among other things, that strength has helped inure him to the physical hardships--frostbite, altitude sickness, barely palatable food--that he routinely endures in the field...
American Legion of W. Va. Gassaway...
...street fighting, Reds shot down some G.I.s who had tried to surrender; other U.S. troops were driven to acts of desperation and of heroism. Private Darcy Brady, from Gassaway, W. Va., piled eleven wounded men into a jeep and took off at top speed for the U.S. lines. Red machine-gunners opened fire, seconds too late. Brady's speeding jeep bounced crazily over the heavily mined no man's land to safety...
...advocated by Senator Melvin Gassaway Ashton in Hollywood's The Senator Was Indiscreet. Ashton's other campaign promises: a $5,000 bonus for everyone who did not serve in the war, refund of all income taxes, with interest...
...party several years ago at the Shoreham Hotel, Hook, flattened the late Representative P. L. Gassaway with one punch...