The Mississippi Quarterly, December 22nd, 1993
Shortly before sunrise on September 21, 1967, Jerry Wayne Boutwell, an eighteen-year-old Mississippian who had never been more than one hundred miles from his home in Pearl River County, rolled out of his bed, took a bath and got dressed. His father was waiting to drive Boutwell to Poplarville, where he would board a bus for Jackson and induction into the Army.
Twenty-one years after that day, Boutwell would remember how much his mother cried when he left home and how little his father talked on the half-hour trip to Poplarville. "I got checked in," Boutwell recalled in 1988, "and then I sa...
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