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UST to think that Tuesday is the Fourth already. Doesn’t time pass quickly when you haven’t got a watch?

We don’t have those old-fashioned celebrations that we used to have when grandpop was alive. That’s grandpop’s picture there in his faded Civil War uniform. He claimed to be the youngest drummer boy in the war, which must have been a musical conflict because every soldier you meet was a drummer boy.

That fellow there alongside of grandpop was an old fellow who drummed with Stonewall Jackson on the Southern side. Grandpop and him were great friends in photographs, but they used to fight like the devil outside of pictures.

On the Fourth, they would get dressed up in their war uniforms and march down Railroad Avenue until their feet gave out.

After the parade was over, the newspaper photographers would take pictures of grandpop and his