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ANDREWS – The day is still vivid in Leland Hamilton’s mind.Much of it was a routine Sunday for Hamilton back then - church, a family meal and a walk downtown to the movies.But the news they received later that day 80 years ago was a shocker and life altering for Hamilton and many others.Hamilton was a senior in high school at the time in the small West Texas town of Loraine.Hamilton graduated high school and worked over the summer. He had made up his mind to attend college at Southwest Texas State. That lasted one semester, he said.“I just wanted ...

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