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Navy’s Scarecrow: “If I Only Had a Brain”

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Battleland’s pop was in the trucking business. It was always a thrill for him and his younger brothers when Dad rumbled home in a huge Mack tractor that we’d drive around the neighborhood after dinner. We thought of that as we read this story about a Navy doctor who – while entrusted with a deceased service member’s brain en route to an autopsy – brought it home so his kids could play with it.