Word: harrodsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...families and boys from across the railroad tracks. Now they were dead, somewhere far away, or captured, or-worst of all-"missing." In some towns nearly everyone had lost a relative or a friend. Salinas, Calif, (pop. 11,586) had nearly 150 men in a tank company on Bataan. Harrodsburg, Ky. (pop. 4,673) had given 76 men to Bataan. In the anonymity of the big cities, the stories were hidden behind the walls of apartments. But every number on the lists meant somewhere the sense of loss...