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I sat down to write a story about the First Congregational Church but my thoughts kept drifting to my father who died one year ago on December 1, 2019. So I decided to write down one of the stories he told me about his time in the Army during World War II. Dad was born in Herington, Kansas to Milton and Maudie Debus Wade. He was the youngest of six children and Grandma Wade expected him to take care of her and remain unmarried, so he did not enlist. After graduating high school in 1942, he went to work for the Rock Island Railroad as a telegrapher. Grandpa Wade worked as a mechanic on the steam engines in the Roundhouse. ....