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was a 'conceited ass,' abotted no doubt but [[strikethrough]] Bruck [[strikethrough]] Clayt's perfect narcel. According to Clayt those same curls have always been his one consistent impediment and a good share of his tino has always been spent in convincing the universe curls need not be a liability.) [[strikethrough]] [[illegible]] [[strikethrough]] Clayt continents about Sam are not on record. The boys graduated from Battle Creek High School in 1916. In 1917 Sam was taken very ill in Buffalo. For many weeks Clayt was his nurse and companion. He changed his day work to night work and nursed Sam in the day time. Sam's condition grew steadily worse. Clayt put him in he hospital for the technical care he needed. For nine months Sam lay paralyzed in every part of his body, being able to move only his eye balls. The malady was called 'heart trouble'. Despairing of saving his life Sam's mother had him put on a train and taken him home to die, at home, if dying was to be. Miracuously within a short length of time Sam was again on his feet and back doing his bit for the army. The united Sam and Clayt in a deep friendship. [[strikethrough]] not unlike Damen and [[illegible]] [[strikethrough]]. In the case of those boys the war was also over. How about jobs? What to do? One sure thing, aviation should have progressed. Office jobs were as unbearable as ever. Let's continue to build aeroplanes. So Buck and Charlie, Clayt and Sam found themselves, after the War Interlude, dumped back into the anything-but-glamorous-reality of peace time and the same old problem of how the keep the wold outside the door. [[strikethrough]] Even such propicuitylooked like the Millienium with the financial vaccuum and other conditions resulting from the war and all its attendant chaos. [[strikethrough]] But the war was over.

Buck and Charlie had two ships mostly paid for. Sam and Clayt had to eat. They could not go on building without some necessities for themselves or the wherewith to buy materials. Buck and Charlie needed mechanics and a real mechanic was like the needle in the haystack, nearly impossible to find. The result was Charlie took Clayt an Buck took Sam and they flew into Lorain, Ohio. Incidentally, Hattie and Sam and Clayt were unacquainted. In years later Sam wrote his premonitions and prognostications of the siren (for she had to be a siren) who seemed to have hooked poor Buck. The jist of it was Buck was such a roguish, lovable "no-give-a-damn-it-guy" that it must have taken a considerable siren to have gotten him. Furthermore, imagine how any girl, [[strikethrough]] much less [[strikethrough]] especially the only kind with the ability to land a guy like Buck, would cramp the poor guy's style anywhere, much less in aviation. About two months of irregular hours, eat as you rub, if you eat at all living, plus the cheerful remarks from all in-laws and the general public, about what a charming young widow, widow, [[strikethrough]] [[illegible]] [[strikethrough]], any aviator's wife was bound to be; after all of this encouragement she would just run home and poor Buck would have to face the "hell, I-told-you-so's" of his universal friends." (quoted)

Weavers were living in a summer cottage (rent paid for in advance) on the farm of Harry Woodruff, Lorain, Ohio. The "field" was across the roadway and though bound on one side by high tension wires and an adjoining side by an 18-ft. ditch, which meant only a two-way field, there were no kicks coming. Unaware of "being on trial" Hattie put seven-months-old Buck II in his collapseable buggy and strolled over to the field. All fields are either hot or cold. This time it was hot which is an excuse for the short-sleeved ninety-eight cent house dress, (and as little else as the law allowed) apparel she wore. There was a new, good-looking, black haired chap working on the motor who turned out to be Sam. Hattie was aware of embarrassment on the part of Sam and excused it as apology for a greasy apperance. In view of the denouement years later it was more easily translated as being now pleased, thinking 2 was a kid [[?]] and rely a child [[?]]. However, she was aware instantly of Sam's chief and most lovable characteristic -- a simplicity of manner coupled with a rare smile and sense of humor. In the latter part of the summer [[strikethrough]] Clarence Brown joined the Ohio Aviation School as a student with the idea of later becoming one of the four pilots. Buck and Charlie had booked most of the Ohio fairs and went different ways, each working different territory. In the early fall tragedy walked in. Clarence Brown had impulsively and generously taken a lad up for a ride to repay this boy for favors done. There was much argument about the fatal crash. The general conclusion was that the boy became frightened and grabbed the