Photo of Aunt Louise WikeHow many people can say they are older than their Aunt? I can. This aunt and I played together as children.

My absolute favorite toy of all time was an old red candy tin filled with buttons.

By Chaplain Robinson
In 1949, my father had just returned home from the war. On every American highway you could see soldiers in uniform hitchhiking home to their families, as was the custom at that time...

Photo of KARL M. WEST, PVT 253 INF 63 DIVThe Story of Karl Marion WestWritten by Leslie Nelson based on interviews with his sister, Hazel, and his own letters to his wife.The winter wind was biting but...

by E.C.WoodwardPublished by U.S. Legacies June 2004I joined the navy while still in high school in Minnesota. It seemed to me they took too long to call me up so I signed up again.

By Jodi L. SeversonAlbert Benjamin Skinner was born on May 13, 1919 in the small town of Cumberland, situated in Barron County, Wisconsin. Al was the third of seven children born to Marshall Otis and Alice...

On Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, 23-year old J.W. "Bill" Simpson wasn't worried about much of anything. His mind was far from the growing world conflict that day as he sat...

His Honorable Discharge states his military occupation as a Trooper (Expert: M-1 rifle). To Merrill's Marauders in Burma during World War II, he was known as a replacement soldier, a member of the "Mars...

Photo:  Hugh Henry Austin, or "Hudie" as the family called him.When I was growing up in north Alabama, I loved to visit my grandparents, Rube and Dollie Morrow.

Steve was born in Ohio in 1913. He had three brothers. His mother was a school teacher and his father worked in the steel mines. Steve has lived all over the world, and has many experiences to share.

By C. J. Morace
The Thanksgiving table at our Fort Thomas, Kentucky, home took all four boards to accommodate the adults of our family every year.

This photo of Don McKee was taken at a veterans' cemetery in the mid 1990s, while delivering a speech during the dedication of a memorial plaza in Frederick County, MD.
The Don McKee Story
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By: Michael J. Files
It was cold and dreary in the early pre-dawn as the eleven year old William Shaddox stepped out of his mother's single room shanty.

Photo of Dalton and Ilene Williams
By Sandy Williams Driver
I recently read Rick Bragg's National Bestseller, "All Over but the Shoutin'," which is the author's recollections of growing up poor in the...

Photo of Ruben Champion (R.C.) Morrow holding Banjo.Other men not known to my family
By: Sandy Williams Driver
My maternal grandfather, Ruben Champion Morrow, could "pick the taters off the vine" when...

By Jim KirbyI joined the 2nd Bn. 184th Infantry, 7th Infantry Division as a replacement after having been chosen to serve in Headquarters Company as an Intelligence Observer in S-2 MOS 761. We ran the...

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