Their names are William Jerome Rivers, Kennedy Ladon Sanders and Breonna Alexsondria Moffett. They all share the rank of sergeant. Rivers was the elder — just four years shy of
Dick Schimmel was from Allentown, Pa., an encyclopedia salesman's son the fifth of eighth children and a lousy student. He wanted to travel, so he joined the Army in 1940. He told his recruiting officer he wanted to go to Hawaii.