"I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery."

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On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

— Katherine Paterson