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It's supposed to be a man there.

National Guard man picked down my sniper fire. Fire. He was He was by his own description an insignificant dude, one little pawn. A friend told a newspaper years later that he could play a trumpet like music was coming out of the radio.

And all John Smith, J.W. as people around here called him, wanted to do is drive his taxi and play his trumpet.

He is from Salisbury, North Carolina. He was 40

40 and struggling to eke out a living playing his music

looking for clubs in Newark, New Jersey, where he could play.

He loved this collection of 25 jazz records.

I was saving money in hopes of getting more

and getting his teeth fixed, which would improve his playing.

But for money, the music wasn't enough and he was driving a taxi cab trying to earn enough money in fares just to pay the 1650 daily fee for use of an independent cab owner's car.

When they did things right and got enough fares, he could make $100 a week.

That night, he had gotten a late start. I was trying to earn enough money to even cover his day and he

picked up a female passenger. John Smith had served in the Army, Korea, Japan, and the

Philippines. He lived in a hotel Albany on

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