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Listener discretion is advised. Just a Just north of the Mexico border in Cameron County at Texas's southernmost tip sits the city of Harlanjan.

When it was incorporated in 1910, the then tiny town's founder, Lawn Sea Hill Hill envisioned the Arroyo Colorado River that fed into Harlanjan from the Gulf of

Mexico as a prime waterway for the commercial distribution of goods and services.

The town, however, didn't quite take off as Hill had hoped and remained a modest agricultural community for some time.

It wasn't until World War II that the town began burgeoning into a small city

when the United States military opened Harlanjan Army Airfield.

By the early 1970s, after the war-inspired boom and following a lull,

Harlanjan's population settled at just under 35,000,

a 31% growth from the town and corporation in 1910.

Harlanjan wasn't comparable to the big cities of Texas,

but industrious companies and individuals were able to maintain progress via a diversified

economy of agriculture, trade, and tourism after the US.S. military largely withdrew its presence there in the early 60s.

In 1958, when the Army's presence in Harlanjan hadn't yet waned, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel

E.C. Fletcher moved his family to the Texas town from Monterey, California's Fort Ord, where he'd been stationed for years.

Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher had been transferred to Harlanjan on new orders.

He was now assigned the position of advisor to the Army Reserve Unit there.

Along with Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher for the move was his family, wife Naomi, son Norris, and

daughter Candice, or Candy, as everyone called her. Candy Ann Fletcher was born in Monterey, California on July 28, 1949.

We couldn't find much about Candy's life. We do know that she graduated from Harlanjan High School in 1968 and was

married on October 12th of that year to Daniel Mora or Danny from Mercedes Texas and she became

Candice Ann Mora. Danny was in the Army and though it is unclear how or where the couple met they were married at the Fort Holabird Post Chapel in Baltimore, Maryland.

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