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‘By the book’: A volunteer official’s creed

Steve Harmon

LONGWOOD, Fla. – Golf fit Abie Gordon like his dress blues.

The game’s orderliness appealed to him. Do this here; don’t do that there.

Those qualities tend to resonate with a Marine. Especially one forged amid the crucibles of Iwo Jima and the Chosin Reservoir.

Abie Gordon, another of the “Greatest Generation’’ whose only surrender has been to old age, died recently from complications of pneumonia. He was 89.

It might seem incongruous to compare his contributions to golf with those to his country. Afterall, Gordon, the son of Russian immigrants – the family name had been Guttman – enlisted at age 17 and fought in two of the Marine Corps’ most legendary battles among his three theaters of war. A “mustang’’ commissioned from the ranks after the Korean War, he was awarded the Bronze Star for valor and the Purple Heart for wounds in Korea, among many other citations in his 30-year career. He rotated home from Vietnam in 1968 ...

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