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Wendell S. Anderson is a combat veteran of WWII 1943 - 1945...with Mommy's permission, he joined the United States Navy at the age of 17. Wendell (Andy) Anderson was born in Northern Illinois the city of Rockford, Illinois 1925. He went to WAR in 1943 in the U. S. NAVY. Under Physical examination Naval medics found the sailor candidate to be too 'color blind' to serve on a Naval vessel, "You are now a Naval Seabee " The Seabees were the construction battalions for the Navy. We built docks for our ships, airfields for our Naval Flyers, hospitals, roads and camp sites through-out the South...

Kenney chronicles a time when ordinary sacrifice and extraordinary courage happened as a part of daily life.

Brainerd, 1941: The first people began arriving at the depot at about eleven-thirty p.m. The mercury in the thermometer read twenty below zero, and it was still dropping. . . . A few minutes before midnight, the men the crowd had come to see marched into view--eighty-two of them, all dressed in khakis, responding on cue to barked commands. . . . The conductor called "all aboard." The band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner." The men fell in and marched into the passenger...