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Bill Pool, born in 1925, enlisted in the Army in 1941 and fought in WWII in Europe. His father, Charles Parker Pool,The WWII veteran will reportedly turn 100 in January and currently resides in Bolivar, Missouri.
“And the teacher would go, ‘Now honey, there is no way that your grandfather served in the Civil War.’ And I tried to tell them, ‘Yes, he did,'” Carolyn said.The book reportedly reveals that Charles Pool fought for the Union with the Sixth West Virginia Volunteers in the American Civil War. The book also notes that Pool’s father was very generous with his Union pension in the years that followed the Civil War — he helped a young Arkansas mother after her husband left her during the Great Depression.Notably, Bill’s mother, Clara, was the last Civil War widow to draw Union benefits in Missouri. She was born in 1888 and died in 1990 at the age of 102.
“If he wanted to hunt, he walked on crutches,” Pool told the outlet. “If he got a squirrel, he put it down in the crosses of his crutches.”
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