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:: Sunday, December 19, 2004 ::
WWII shipbuilders played Santa, worked for free on Christmas By Russ Bynum, AP, Tallahassee.com, FL
To get the job done, workers were needed around the clock on Christmas Day. Bacon was among 1,500 who volunteered. And they worked for free.
'We were Santa Claus. They made those checks separate from our other checks and we just signed it over and put it back in the till,' said Bacon, 81, who returned to teaching school after the war and retired in Jesup, 40 miles northwest of Brunswick.
The coastal Georgia shipyard closed soon after the war, and the sagging wooden frames of its construction slips are now smothered by tall marsh grasses in the shadow of Brunswick's towering Sidney Lanier Bridge.
Sixty years later, the can-do Christmas spirit of those shipbuilders who returned $16,080 in overtime wages to the U.S. government remains a point of undiminished pride in this coastal Georgia city.------------------------------------------- posted 9:45 PM :: reference link ::
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