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Good Lord, good genes, good booze ... the passing of a true gentleman

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By John Hopkins
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Robert E . Ryan, one of the last – if not THE last living World War II veteran in the Alton area - died at age 102 on November 12, the day after Veterans Day. He was a POW in Germany, 80 miles south of Berlin from May of 1944, until liberated by the Third Army of General George Patton on April 29, 1945. He returned to his native Alton to practice law for 73 years, in the office every day virtually up to the time of his death.
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The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913

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By John Hopkins
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by John L. Hopkins. El Dorado Hills, Ca.: Savas Beatie, 2023. Pp. xii,196. Illus., append., notes, biblio., index. $32.95. ISBN:1611216842 The 50th Anniversary Gettysburg Veterans’ Reunion In the summer of 1913, an estimated 53,000 elderly Civil War veterans in their 70s and 80s arrived at Gettysburg, to commemorate the battle fought there fifty years earlier, and to celebrate national reconciliation. Any honorably discharged veteran of the Civil War, blue or gray, was asked to be present.
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I’ll give you something to cry about

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By John Hopkins
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My late father Charlie Hopkins was by any measure a "salt of the earth" kind of guy. Long time labor leader with the Ironworkers Local 392, WWII Navy veteran, and former professional baseball player, he embodied the spirit of post war America, a silent strength that felt it was always better to keep your emotions in check, and no matter the troubles, tough it out.
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