When McManus finished, Corporal Dale Antram came up to him. “Sergeant McManus, we’ve got a euchre game going on out on the [Commons] with some of the students. Can you come and join us? We need a fourth person.” McManus agreed. He, Antram, and two female students played game after game of euchre sitting on the grass beneath oak and maple trees from late morning to late afternoon while, nearby, other guardsmen joined touch-football games with students. “It was a nice day,” recalled McManus. “Just young people having fun—not keeping score or worrying about who won or lost.” They played cards,
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