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By Matea Gold / The Bulletin
March 6, 2010
NEW YORK — The day he was scheduled to retire from his job as a foreman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Yankton, S.D., Tom Brokaw’s father, known as Red, called his son. “I can’t retire,” he told the NBC anchor, in an uncharacteristic burst of emotion. “I just want to plow one more....