"I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks..." — Bob Feller

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.