Sam Palmer never missed a Sunday at the Broadway Baptist Church back home in Fort Worth. His favorite hymn is still Take Your Burdens to the Lord and Leave Them There. In Sixth Ward grade school Sam was a boy soprano; at Texas Christian University, student manager of the Horned Frog football team because he was too light to play. One day freckled, redheaded Sam Palmer learned to fly. He left college to be an Army pilot.
Last month Captain Samuel Louis Palmer Jr., 24, arrived in China. "Well, here I am." he wrote back to Fort Worth, "a little closer to...
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