American Valor Quarterly Issue 11 - Fall 2014 | Page 4

Letter from the Editor ISSUE 11 - FALL 2014 JAMES C. ROBERTS President TIM HOLBERT Editor & Executive Director WES SMITH Program Director SETH NICHOLS Director of Development MEGAN MAGGI Content Manager PETER TRAHAN Website Manager CHRIS GRAHAM Researcher ADAM SYLVAIN Associate Editor MICHAEL PARADISO Publisher ROB PERRY Creative Director American Valor Quarterly A quarterly publication of the American Veterans Center & World War II Veterans Committee 1100 N. Glebe Rd. Suite 910 Arlington, VA 22201 Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone] American Valor Quarterly is mailed to donors to the American Veterans Center, World War II Veterans Committee, and National Vietnam Veterans Committee who make a contribution of $50 or more per-year. Contributions help fund the Center and Committee’s various speaker conferences, student programs, the National Memorial Day Parade, documentary and oral history projects, and this publication. To make a contribution or subscribe, call 571-480-4156 or e-mail [email protected]. www.AmericanVeteransCenter.org www.wwiivets.com www.vietnamvetscommittee.org www.NationalMemorialDayParade.com 4 Heroes a gener ation of By Tim Holbert This special issue of American Valor Quarterly shares the story of some of our nation’s highest profile veterans of the Second World War – Major League Baseball players who put their careers aside to serve in the military when their country needed them most. Like such high-profile contemporaries as Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda, many of these men left their comfortable lives, coming together with 16 million other Americans from all walks of life to join the services and win World War II. Though the men fe