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was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia;
he had a difficult childhood.
His parents divorced when he was two,
and he grew up among an extended family
in segregated South Carolina.
At twelve,
months after the attack on Pearl Harbor,
he won a statewide scrap metal drive,
the prize for which was
a new American flag for his school.
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