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hunter

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2. The "Best Brains" can come in all sorts of packages.

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Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:53 PM

Oct 6

My grandfather NEVER EVER talked about his service in World War II.

My great aunt told me he had a car and a driver and carried a "get out of jail free" card for people who had been deemed essential to the war effort, including people who had been busted in police raids of gay bars, "nasty" women, people not born in the U.S.A., etc..

He came out of the war as a wizard of exotic metals and was later an engineer for the Apollo Project.

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