"In those days -- back during the war, I mean -- the train still stopped in Orrington, and Bill Baterman had a funeral hack there at the loading depot to meet the freight carrying the body of his son Timmy. The coffin was unloaded by four railroad men. I was one of them. There was an army fellow on board from Graves and Registration -- that was the army's wartime version of undertakers, Louis -- but he never got off the train. He was sitting drunk in a boxcar that still had twelve coffins in it.

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