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On December 7, 1991, many Barnesville area men who left Barnesville for basic training in WWII, departed by train at the Barnesville B & O Depot. That year, 50 years to the date of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, they took part in the Barnesville Christmas Parade.
Earlier that year, local donations funded the purchase of the former, abandoned train station from CSX, owner of the building.
Many of these men marched as a group through town and down to the station on their way during the war. On that day, they recreated that act marching as a group in the parade. After the parade, they enjoyed hotdogs, coffee and cocoa and shared stories at the station.
Today, very few veterans of the war remain, with most near or over 100 years of age. An Associated Press piece over the weekend reported there remain only 12 survivors of the bombing. The article headline read: “Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive. People turn to other ways to learn about the 1941 bombing”.
Retired American broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw aptly called the men and women of this time “The Greatest Generation.”
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