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Happenstance, History and Hamilton
Happenstance, History and Hamilton
 
A while back, my little boy was attending a birthday celebration for one of his friends at a playground in the Hamilton neighborhood of Novato, CA.  Hamilton was a WWII-era Air Force base and you can still see the remnants of it in some of the Spanish Revival-esque buildings --- a few of which are now in a serious state of disrepair.  Since I had a fairly low tolerance for Frozen and face painting that day, I decided to cut out of the party for a bit and take a short walk.  Ultimately, I found myself peering into the boarded windows of what used to be the hospital. 
 
As I returned to the childhood revelry across the overgrown parking lot, an elderly resident who was walking his dog volunteered that there had once been an American POW who convalesced there.  He went on to say that particular veteran was a survivor of a raid launched on Japan as retaliation for Pearl Harbor. And though nobody would confuse me for a student of history, I had never heard of such a military operation. As the airman recovered at Hamilton, his stay was abruptly ended when the general who led the mission ... more

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