Betty O. Bowman was born on May 27, 1922 in New York. Her family settled in Staten Island, where she would grow up doing a plethora of activities such as swimming, bowling, tennis, and singing.
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Conde Benoist Pallen, born in 1933, was given big shoes to fill early in his life. He was named after his grandfather, also named Conde Benoist Pallen, who was a prolific Catholic writer in America with multiple published books and articles.
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 changed everything. The devastating, surprise attack by Japan marked the end of the isolationist ideals of many citizens of the United States and ushered in a period of domestic unity across America during the Second World War.
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After World War One, Germany was a miserable place to live. Inflation was through the roof, the nation’s military was limited, and people starved in the streets.
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Jeanette M. Wullenschneider (nee Reichenberger) lived a life of service. Born just three years after the end of the First World War on May 26, 1921, in a farmhouse outside of Andale, Kansas, Jeanette was the seventh of what would be eight children of Nicholas John Reichenberger and Regina Agnes Reichenberger.
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“He was a fun-loving individual,” “a hero with a big heart,” “he always thought of others over himself…he was very special,” “he was just a light.” These remembrances are but a small testimony of the feelings individuals had for the beloved, selfless, and righteous United States Air Force Staff Sergeant Jesse Evan Childress.
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On October 29, 1978, Adele and Edward Scutellaro would welcome their first and only baby girl into this world. Lynn Scutellaro would start her life in the quaint town of Mercerville, New Jersey, until her brother Richard was born in 1980, and the Scutellaros moved north to Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
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On the night before Christmas, a baby girl was born who would dedicate her life to protecting this country. John Cuthbert had immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1888 and eventually would meet his wife, Mary Carter. On December 24, 1914, they would welcome their first and only child, naming her after her mother. They lived their lives in Suffolk, Massachusetts; it is here that Mary would attend high school for all four years and work as a bookkeeper and cashier after graduation.
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Theodore William Van Deest Jr. was born in Denver, Colorado on June 26, 1932, to Viola and Theodore Van Deest Sr. During his childhood, Theodore was the third eldest of seven children, he had four sisters (two older and two younger) and two younger brothers.
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Harley Lee Walker was born on the 25th of August 1925 in Henderson, a small community in Northeastern Colorado. His father, Harley B Walker, came from Indiana and his mother, Thelma Laura Walker, was from Georgia.
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Harry Nelson Jr. had just celebrated his fifteenth birthday when he got the best present of all, a little sister. Pauline Vonda Nelson was born on March 3, 1934, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Harry Sr. and Dorothy Nelson.
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Born on April 16, 1894, in DeKalb, Illinois, Clarence Herbert Peterson was the son of a Danish immigrant and an Illinoisan.[1] Records show that in 1900, he had 3 siblings, an older brother, Evans, born in 1891, a younger sister Irene, born in 1896, and a younger brother Raymond, born in 1899.
Read MoreFrederick A. Praeger was born in 1915, into a Jewish family as the only child of Max Mayer Praeger, an Austrian publisher and newspaper managing director, and Manya Praeger.[1] Growing up in Austria, he studied law and political science at the University of Vienna from 1933 to 1938 and also spent time at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1934.
Read MoreEarl Wilford Thompson was born in 1946 in St. George, Washington County, Utah.[1] He was the son of Joseph Claude Thompson (1917–1982) and Helen Thompson (Leavitt) (1921–2011). The Thompson family were active participants in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. St. George, a Mormon church, in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Read MorePeter John Zamaites was born on October 19, 1911, in Worcester, Massachusetts, to parents George Zamaitis and Lucy Jankauskas.[1]From 1929 to 1931, Zamaites enlisted in the Marines and served as a Private for the 308th Company of the US Naval Reserve Armory in Worcester, the 307th Company in Los Angeles, California, and Company “L” of the Seventh Reserve Regiment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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