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when he was drafted into the United States Army during World War II (1939/1941-1945). He was first trained to defuse landmines and then transferred to the
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and another stop along the way, Hamner's father would walk then the six miles further to the family's rural home to complete his weekly journey. His walk on a snowy
Christmas Eve in 1933 was the inspiration for Hamner's 1970 novel,
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of the 1930s when the company and its mines closed. Hamner's father worked in the mines from the time his eldest son was born until the company's closing. After losing his job, Earl Sr. could only find work as a machinist at the
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