Mr. Frank Gruber was a good ole boy from Florence, Alabama. He attended school and helped out on the farm with his father. He served in the army and was drafted before his final year of high school in 1943. This came the same year his elder brother was killed in service as a marine […]
Having just recently returned from Washington D.C. with the Honor Flight of World War II Veterans, Mr. Taylor was very complimentary of the people who were in charge of this memorable day. Richard was born in 1926 and grew up primarily in Oklahoma and Texas. He entered the navy in 1946 after completing a year […]
Samuel Madden was born in 1912; he was one of ten children. His father was a minister and teacher at his childhood school. After graduating high school, Madden went on to work for a government program that existed during this time called the Works Progress Administration, or the WPA. This was one of the vastest […]
Malcolm Smith is a navy veteran who served in World War II. He was born on October 11, 1916, and enlisted in the U.S. Navy on December 12, 1942. He is currently serving as the bugler at the American Legion Post 31 in Tuscumbia Alabama. Smith was working at Reynolds Security when he heard the […]
Mr. John Neff was born and raised in Sheffield, Alabama, to the son of a family that owned Clark Mercantile Company located on Second Street in Sheffield. He began working in the family business at age 10. Mr. Neff met his first love and wife at the mercantile. Her father owned the dairy nearby, and […]
Dewitt Lowery was a simple country boy who was born and raised on a farm in Atmore, Alabama. He decided to join the war effort after he learned of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. His older brother was one of the first young men in Atmore to be drafted, and Lowery […]
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