Unnamed Parents of Local War Casualty
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Unnamed Parents of Local War Casualty
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Unnamed Parents of Local War Casualty
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Yes
Biography:
When Charles Mallison passes through Jefferson at the start of World War II in "Knight's Gambit," he has a kind of prevision of the local young men who will soon be killed in the fighting, and the grief of "those who had created" them, without realizing that the day would come when their child "might die in agony" in a foreign place they "had never even heard of before" and didn't even know how to pronounce (251).