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Mr. Spell served aboard the USS Caswell, an attack cargo ship in World War II. Aboard her, he saw action in some of the largest battles in the South Pacific in World War II. Sterling, whose father managed a mill in a lumber town no longer in existence, Ansley, Louisiana, grew up in a very traditional Southern manner of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including having playmates that were sons of African-American mill workers. He looks back at the often-symbiotic relationships between the two races, then and now: