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The Hymnal, the Discharge Paper, and the Life He Hid
The Hymnal, the Discharge Paper, and the Life He Hid
A burgundy hymnal left in a donation bin for at least three weeks contained a folded military discharge paper for Walter R. Colton - a man everyone in his Ohio town believed had never served. The paper listed a home of record in Berea, Kentucky, and a discharge date in autumn 1961, but the federal enlistment file was missing; what caused that gap, and why did he keep two lives apart for decades?
In this episode, we follow how a hymnal found outside Calvary Lutheran led two volunteer catalogers and a records manager to reexamine family…
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