World War II was a pivotal point in the history of Hall County, Texas. Many of the young farmers in the county volunteered to fight the Hun, but few volunteered to return to the cotton fields at home. Dust,
The Depression and the damned diesel tractors had ravaged the area and chased the sharecroppers out of town.
Raymond Ballew sat and watched the war unwind right before him as he sipped his daily coffee at Tarver’s Drugstore. He was proud of his hometown as they all did their part to win the war.
He believed a soldier from Hall County participated in every major battle of the war, from Pearl Harbor to D-Day to Iwo Jima and Hiroshima. Raymond and his fellow veterans of the Great War in the American Legion did their best to help guide the town through the turmoils of war.
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