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Army
koreAn WAr erA

were eating out of his role as the pawn shop
the garbage cans owner in the movie Pulp
to survive. It was a Fiction.)
pitiful sight.”
After working in Abilene
Buck soon tired of and Snyder for a while,
all the drills and Buck moved to Lubbock
standing guard. and went to work for Big 3
“I called Lt. Tyson Welding Supply, Amerigas,
and asked him to and Lubbock Welding
get me back to a Supply on Avenue A and
medical company. didn’t retire until he was 79
When I got back to the 7th Infantry’s Medical years old. Barbara passed away in March 2007, and Buck
Company, they didn’t have much for me to married Margie Craig on March 6, 2010.”
do at first, so they had me watching guys dig
a hole. I eventually became the company clerk Buck’s military career, though short, made a deep and
for Company I. I went out to aid stations and everlasting impression on him. “The Army makes you
basically did everything they needed a medic to grow up. It also made me patriotic.” Patriotism isn’t
do.” automatic, but somehow, serving one’s country often
leads to loving it. It worked for Buck.
“I was with A Company of the 37th Infantry
when I was notified that I was going home
after one year and four months in Korea (and
one year and nine months in the Army.) I was
shipped back to Ft. Lewis and discharged from
active duty on December 15, 1955. I met a guy
who was shipping out. He had a new Lincoln
Continental, and he needed to get it back to
California. He had a young Japanese bride, but
she couldn’t drive, so he asked if I would take
his car down there for him, so I did. That was
a nice car. The next morning after arriving in
California, I took a train to Abilene and caught a
bus to Albany. I called my mother to come and
pick me up.”

“I bought a car with money I’d sent home and
drove to Wichita Falls to see a girl but found out
that she had married an Air Force guy. I went
down to Abilene and worked for Paymaster
Feed. I met a nurse from Houston who was
visiting a relative in Abilene. We hit it off pretty
good.” Buck and Barbara Hudson married on
August 16, 1958. They had three children—
Duane, Margaret, and Ramona. “Duane Southcrest would like
always had the acting bug. He used to do
plays and sing at the Hayloft Dinner Theater in to wish Phil Crenshaw a
Lubbock.” (Duane eventually found his calling Happy 100th Birthday!
in Hollywood as an actor, writer, and producer
of both movies and plays and is best known for

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