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When news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor spread throughout the United States, 16-year-old Robert A. Madden of St. Louis County was energized with the desire to serve his country. It would be two years before he would reach the age to volunteer and embark upon a military career punctuated by his imprisonment during the Korean War.
While a young man growing up in Columbia, Lloyd Jones observed the leadership traits of his father, who was an educator who later became a university president. Many of his father s demonstrated abilities in managing personnel within an educational institution helped to inspire the younger Jones to also pursue a career leading others, but in an entirely different organizational structure the U.S. Army.