. . When war broke out, Bill Monk was 16 and living a quiet life in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When news reached him of the bombs hitting Pearl Harbor, he did not yet understand how that day would impact his life, changing it forever. As a high school senior, an army recruiter desperately
. . Ken Middlemiss was drafted into the US Army in Spetember 1945 after graduting high school. He was in the Special Services under the 8th Army Division and spent 18 months in Japan before leaving in October 1947.
. . Although he was an only child and married with a child on the way, George Metz was drafted in March 1968. By May, he was in basic training. In October, he went to Vietnam with a quartermaster company. He didn’t like his company and requested a transfer to become
. . Like many other young men who left Pittsburgh during the steel industry’s final throes of the 1980s, Jesse Mercure enlisted in the US Army and found a career and home there. He spent twenty years on active duty and another four as an active reservist before hanging up his uniform.
. . Eugene M. McShane is a native of Stonington, Connecticut. During WWII he enlisted in the Army in 1943 and trained as a forward artillery observer. During the allied invasion of Normandy, he landed on Omaha Beach (Dog Red zone) as part of the second wave, June 7, 1944 (D+1).
. . Bill McLaughlin served two years active duty in the Army, and then four years reserve duty during the Cold War era 1950s. Like many Army soldiers of the time, he served in Germany as part of the frontline defense against a Soviet takeover of Europe. In summer of 2013,
