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Vol. 85, No. 207
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Anahuac veteran reflects
on the 1944 invasion
that defeated the Nazis
TUESDAY
June 6, 2006
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about 1,500 at most, said Mike
Wilson, secretary of the 2006 Bayou
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WORLD WAR II VETERAN
Monday mishap
More than 400 Springfield residents were without gas
Monday afternoon when the mainline was damage on Garth
Road. See story on Page 10.
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Bayou Bowl attendance could be up this year
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Organizers of this year’s Bayou,
Bowl are hoping that Louisianans
displaced by last fall ’s Hurricane
Katrina will take advantage of an
opportunity to cheer on their own at
the annual Texas-Louisiana high
school football match-up.
The 4th Annual Bayou Bowl,
which pits all-star gridiron players
from the Houston area against their
Baytown Sun photo/Ken Fountain
Broughton “Brodie” Hand of Anahuac displays a drawing of one of the German P.O.W. camps where he was held
following his capture shortly after the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Today is the 62nd anniversary of D-Day.
Stocks plunge
Inflation fears sent stocks
plunging Monday as jitters over
high oil prices exacerbated sig-
nals that the Federal Reserve
will keep lifting interest rates to
contain price increases. The
Dow Jones industrial average
sank nearly 200»points.
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High 91
Low 72
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Today’s date unsettling to some
BY LUCI RODRIGUEZ
Luci.Rodriguez@baytownsun.com
Fifteen-year-old Leslye Davis always
goes to see a movie on her birthday, but this
year, her birthday will be a little more omi-
nous as she plans to see The Omen today,
June 6 or 6-6-06.
The film, starring Julia Stiles and Liev
Schreiber, is a remake of the 1976 original
movie.
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, Night swimming
ends in six arrests
Half a dozen adults were
arrested and charged with inde-
cent exposure after Baytown
police caught the individuals
swimming naked after midnight
Sunday in the Lakewood’s
subdivision community pool.
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Rough night at the park
The Houston Astros fell behind
, early in an 8-0 Chicago Cubs
win. Carlos Zambrano fell just
short of a no-hitter as Houston
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being around the number sequence 6-6-6,
the mark of the devil according to The
Book of Revelations, is not as appealing.
And for others the number set translates
‘“I think it’s awesome,” Davis said smiling >j>to Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia,’ a
when asked what she thought about her
birthday being on June 6.
For some individuals hearing, seeing or
Bowl Steering Committee.
Wilson said that the game could
give many Katrina evacuees a much-
needed morale boost.
“With so many Louisiana folks
now living in the Houston area, the
Bayou Bowl gives them an event
where they can celebrate their best
football players and coaches,” he
said.
Among the south Louisiana play-
ers on this year’s roster are Quachita
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Louisiana residents
still living in the area
after evacuating from
Katrina’s wrath, game
organizers hope a.larg-
er number of Louisiana
fans than normal will
attend this year.
Historically, the
number of fans who
have made the trip from Louisiana to
Baytown for the game has been
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Lee head football coach
Dick Olin, working
through the Greater
Houston Football
Coaches Association,
spearheaded the idea.
This was the first year
that the game was to have
been played in Louisiana,
but last year’s devastating
Louisiana rivals, is set to begin at & storm put that on hold. Plans now
p.m. Saturday at Stallworth Stadium. caP for next year’s game to be
BY KEN FOUNTAIN
ken.fountain@oaytownsun.com
Sixty-two years ago, Allied forces
embarked on the mission that would ulti-
mately lead to the defeat of Nazi Germany
with the invasion of Normandy on June 6,
1944 - better known as D-Day. Among the
thousands of American troops who took
part in that momentous event was
Broughton “Brodie” Hand of Anahuac.
Hand, 86, was bom in Trinity but moved
to Anahuac with his
family at age four -
his brother had polio,
and his parents want-
ed to be closer to
Houston, where he
wasbeing treated.
Hand graduated
from Anahuac High
School in 1939, and
went on East Texas
Baptist College in
Marshall, where he
studied for two years.
He spent his summers at a civilian mili-
tary school in San Antonio, and as
American involvement in World War II
become more imminent, Hand hoped to
become a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
He went to take entrance tests in Bossier
City, Louisiana, but failed the eye tests.
“I decided I’d better go in an volunteer,”
he said. Not able to become a pilot, Hand
went to Houston to volunteer to become a
paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne
Division in October 1942.
Training in various bases in the United
States for more than a year. Hand and his
comrades shipped overseas to Belfast,
Ireland in December 1943. Hand had
already contracted the flu, and went
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