Source: Bruce Schreiner

Associated Press

FRANKFORT -- Leroy F. Spaulding joined the Army in 1941, expecting his hitch to be only a short detour from his high school education. The attack on Pearl Harbor changed those plans dramatically. What started as a yearlong enlistment lasted four years and two months. When his chums back in Frankfort graduated in 1943, Spaulding was soon to storm the beaches of Sicily under German fire. Back home after the war, Spaulding went to work, got married, raised a family and worked at a distillery.

Published on March 3, 2002, Page B1, Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)