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16.01.2020 09:41
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Grandmother died in 1956. While we waited for the funeral to begin I checked out the mill hoping to find a new litter of kittens and happened on an older man who was sleeping there. He woke up suddenly and was happy to realize I wasn聮t a police officer. He had been run out of railyards all the way from Winnipeg. I remembered Kilroy and asked if he knew why riders of the rails drew him on the boxcars. He said it was code for hoboes to know that the place they were visiting was safe from hassling by police and railroad inspectors. The stationmasters and inspectors would erase the rest of the graffiti when they found it, but they left Kilroy alone, as he had become something of a national symbol. He also said that all the hoboes laughed at Kilroy and his long nose because he was supposed to represent the Jewish owners of the railroads. The implicit racism bothered me, but I didn't say anything. My new friend told me that he still saw Kilroy here and there Shohei Ohtani Authentic Jersey , now eleven years after the end of the war. |
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