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Op/Ed: On Memorial Day, A Beer For Billy
By Walt Herbert,
Special to The Times
When Memorial Day comes I think about Billy Rountree, the star center fielder on my high school baseball team who was destroyed in Vietnam. Two of my teammates were killed in Vietnam; Billy had worse luck coming home. When the team got together in later years, we would raise a ceremonial glass and say “A Beer for Billy.”
The Rountrees were a decent and devout Methodist family, the father an expert carpenter, and their firstborn Billy was everybody’s favorite kid. He was big and strong and handsome and hard-working, with abounding good cheer.
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