This is a story about a generation that would suffer through the hardship of a great depression. They would not know at the time, but that struggle would be the foundation they would need to meet the greater challenge of World War II. I dedicate this book to my father, Donald Raymond Vaughn, and mother, LaVaun Martha Mitchell Vaughn, whom the inspiration, as well as the story, comes from. They were simple hardworking young adults who were beginning their lives as one family when the war in Europe came to America. Like so many young couples, they were looking forward to the future away from the depression where they could live, prosper, and begin their lives. But this generation would set aside their personal goals and go without question to war. Not because they wanted to, not for the glory of the fight, but because their generation understood that they had an obligation to rid the world of the hatred of a madman. This is one familys story, one that could mirror millions of others who were, like them, the greatest generation of the twentieth century.