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At 83, he[G.V "Sonny" Montgomery] refuses to fade
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| Contributor | User 490 |
| Last Edited | User 490 May 24, 2004 01:56am |
| Category | Profile |
| News Date | May 24, 2004 12:00am |
| Description | MERIDIAN — The Allies were busy that year, 1945, chasing Germans across Europe. Sonny Montgomery, a young soldier then, a liaison officer, found himself taking a message from one column to another.
"I didn't know much about where we were," he says. What was on the other side of the hill?
In the years since, he figured he might have been the point man for the entire Allied operation in Europe. He'd gone a hill too far.
"The whole American force (Montgomery) was in a Jeep with a driver, carrying a .45 pistol I didn't know how to use.
"All of a sudden Germans came out of the woods and down to the road. I didn't know if I was going to surrender to them or they were going to surrender to me.
"There were about 20 of them," Montgomery says. "They didn't panic, and I didn't panic. They were tired. They wanted to give up."
So he pointed down the road in the direction of his command and told them to keep walking. "I didn't even take their arms," he says.
That young soldier, now 83, who retired in 1996 after representing Mississippi in Congress for 30 years and for several years after that worked as a consultant in Washington, has now come home for good, to the duplex in his hometown of Meridian that he's used for years on weekends away from Washington.
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