Those who have read Tom Brokaw’s book, The Greatest Generation, have been introduced to “ordinary” men and women who rose to the demands of the times and performed “extraordinary” deeds while in military service of World War II. (...) It’s too bad Brokaw never met Jim Stone, for he surely would have rated a chapter in the book. How did a young man who grew up during the Great Depression on a dairy farm in Virginia, going fishing and swimming in mill ponds, go off to the “big one” and come back to make his place in Bainbridge? Most anyone who knows Mr. Jim has heard his famous saying, “I’m not from Bainbridge, but I got here as quick as I could.”
He sounds like a truly good and caring man. His profile in the Post-Searchlight is very enjoyable.
