When Americans think about World War II, we remember Normandy, Bastogne, Iwo Jima and the other distant battlefields where Americans fought and died. Few, however, know that before many of those soldiers reached foreign soil, they learned to fight on the farms, roads and forests of Middle Tennessee. I know because I was born there …

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