After graduating from Charleston High School in 1943, Bumpers enrolled at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for summer school, knowing that he would soon be drafted to serve in World War II. According to Bumpers family, he served in the Marine Corps and was in Hawaii, about to be shipped out to the Pacific Theater when the atomic bombs were dropped and World War II ended. After discharge from the Marines as a staff sergeant, he returned to the University of Arkansas and, upon [...]
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