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And now Bill Damon, born 1944.

In 1948 he lost his grandfather, his father's father.

He did have a visit that he remembers with his grandmother who was a Yankee

and spoke crisply and candidly of her son who had disappointed her.

However, at this point the young Bill Damon doesn't have the story laid out in the fashion we've had.

So the revelations begin on and off sometime, my guest bill, your story.

Sometime when you found yourself no longer in Brockton, Massachusetts, facing Brockton High School and the future after that.

But at the end of her academy, when did the revelations in your memory bill, when did the revelations begin?

That you were strangely following your father's footpaths never having met him?

Well, number one, when I was young and that goes all the way to my college years, I really knew nothing about my father

and didn't even want to think about him very much.

I had some sense that I needed to make it on my own and I didn't want to go around feeling sorry for myself.

So when anybody would ask me about where my father was, I would just repeat what my mother kept telling me, which was, quote, he was missing in World War II.

It was like a mantra.

And that's all allowed myself to think about.

I think probably because I really wanted to spend for myself and I didn't want to, I didn't want to sink into O.D.

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