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  • Writer's pictureLawrence Lore

We Miss You, John

(This is for those of you who knew John Hamiliton.) The other day we were putting away donated items, and came across a small box of school pins donated by John. Being in a hurry to get everything photographed and placed in our computerized inventory system, we didn't pay too much attention to the handwriting on the cards.


John had pinned the various medals and lapel pins on note cards and identified what they were and the year he received them. If you notice on the note card in the top upper left, he wrote "Given to me for staying busy" and the middle card on the right, he wrote "Presented to me in high school for always being around." WE miss you, John.

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