Rena Mizell

Heroes Everyone Rena Mizell

Young boys' minds are oftenfilled with dreams of the future.¿ Theydream about playing football or baseball, girls and dating, graduating fromhigh school and maybe going to college.¿¿As it is today, so it was in the past.¿However, that all changed for the boys of the 1940s when the Japanesebombed Pearl Harbor on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. Heroes Everyone isthe true stories of five young boys who, in order to defend their country, puttheir lives on hold and joined the United States Marine Corps.¿ Join these young boys in their foxholes, inthe trenches, on the battlefields, even in the hospitals.¿ Feel their fears, their weariness, and knowtheir pain.¿ Come along with them acrossthe battlefields of the South Pacific and join them on the tiny island of Iwo Jima as they fight theirlast battle of World War II, and survive. Steve Rimmer, Jim Callahan, CecilMatheney, John McKinnon, and Frank Hall will tell you they are not heroes.¿ They will tell you that the real heroes arethose who didn't come back.¿ But they,like all who have chosen to serve their country, are Heroes Everyone.