Veteran's History Project - Raymond E. Little

Raymond E. Little

Private First Class

U.S. Army

1950-1953

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.

Raymond "Ray" Little spent most of his growing-up years in Fort Collins, Colo. He was a scrappy kid whose household could have been a little warmer.

When he was 17, he quit high school. His mother sent him to the Post Office in Fort Collins and Ray was soon taken by a recruiting poster. It was a large picture of...