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Missing No More

Veterans Day, 2010 This article was written by my brother, Mike Bennett, editor of the Legionnaire , Post and Unit 72 of the American Legion, New Albany, Mississippi. This is a poignant—even uncanny—story about yet another American war hero... very special to our family for several generations. October 12, 2010 No. LXVI MISSING NO MORE! My wife, Gloria, and I are genealogy buffs and thus far have amassed 5,876 names into our family history beginning before the American Revolution and all the way up to the present. There are many of our family members who served our country during the course of history. We listed one such name several years ago from the lineage of my grandmother, Vallie Georgia Clark Smith. Her sister, Lillie Roane Clark Hellums and her husband had nine children, one of which was a son named Judge Clayton Hellums, who is my second cousin.   On October 9, 1944, Clayton gave his life for his country while fighting the Germans in the Forest de Parroy, Lor