Veteran's History Project - Thomas H. Evans

Thomas H. Evans

Technician 4th Grade

U.S. Army

World War II

Editor's Note: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

Thomas H. "Tom" Evans was in his senior year of high school in a small town in north central Missouri. When he arrived home from class in the spring of 1943, he found a postcard addressed to him. It was from the local Selective Service Office and it began with the word "Greetings ..."

In the days when young me...