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dir="auto"><font size="+2">Remembering all losses on 9/11/01 but
particularly remembering a member of the TC HD family: Dr.
Carl Max Hammond, son of Carl Hammond (TC#4277) who had served
the Huntsville Division as Manager of Contracts. </font><br>
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<h1>Carl Max Hammond</h1>
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<h2>Used-Car Tinkerer</h2>
Carl Hammond and Carl Max Hammond Jr. had some of their best
father-son talks while tinkering with the innards of a Mustang.<br>
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"I bought one used back in '67," said the elder Mr. Hammond. It
needed parts, so I bought another — which needed parts. I bought
another and another and another."<br>
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Max, who was 12, liked to tinker, too. "It wasn't long," said his
father, "before he was the leader and I was the follower."<br>
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Max Hammond was also a leader in other ways. In seventh grade, he
got into trouble for contradicting his teacher.<br>
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"She said a supernova was the birth of a star," Mr. Hammond
recalled. "He said it was the death of a star. He wouldn't back off
his position. He accused the teacher of getting her science from
Reader's Digest. He got his from Scientific American."<br>
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Max earned a doctorate in physics and got a job doing top-secret
research. But he still preferred talking about books or cars. "He
wrote poetry," his father said. "He loved working with his hands."
He was taking a welding course and learning to weld and form
aluminum and thin metal."<br>
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Less than a year before boarding Flight 175, Max Hammond, who was
37, moved to Derry, N.H. He bought a little house with a big garage
for the Mustangs. "The '65 Mustang fastback — a shell of a body —
was first on the list," Mr. Hammond said. "Next was the Mustang
convertible. He liked to learn about them and tinker with them. But
he never did finish one."
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Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on April 28, 2002.
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