Howard Stone was 17 and wanted to join the Coast Guard when he walked into the recruiting office in Texarkana, Texas, in the spring of 1943. He never found the Coast Guard’s door. “I went in the first door I could find, and that was the Navy,” he said. He told the recruiter he was […]
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