We all owe thanks to Judi Spencer for posting the Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal obituaries. I am mentioning the following for non-West Virginians who may be unaware of the reason. It is striking that there are so many in Akron. But I believe someone told me that at one point nearly half of the population of Akron was from West Virginia. It reflected, in the main, the great migration from the coal fields in the late 1940s, 1950s and part of the 1960s. If you lived in West Virginia then, there was nothing more conspicuous at that time than Ohio license tags on weekends. The industrialization of Northeast Ohio at that time offered the only alternative available as a job of any kind to military service. And West Virginia was said to have lost more soldiers per capita in the Korean War than any other state. dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone and fax: 330-454-2376