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completed a questionnaire for the publisher. Using this book as a guide, l contacted people whose last or maiden names were the same as those to he honored by the memorial and whose high school class years suggested that they could be brothers or sisters of the honorees. This is how most of the current family contacts were identified, and it yielded a considerable amount of additional biographical Information. A number of the published articles that were the primary sources of biografical information reported the individuals as being missing in action. In certain of these cases, I obtained a subsequent article that updated the status to killed in action. Where no subsequent update was found, I made an effort to confirm the individual's status by contacting government agencies such as the Veterans Administration, National Archives, Department of Military Affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs, American Battle Monuments Commission and the Army Casualty and Memorial Affairs Operations Center. One puzzling case was that of two brothers,. The strange thing was that one was on our Wilmette list; the other on the Kenilworth World War II memorial. My inquiry to Northwestern Military Academy, which both boys had attended, brought forth the amazing information that our Wilmette man 'was still contibuting to their alumni funds. Further investigation found him alive and well. Missing in action from the Anzio beach area in Italy in 1944, at the age of 19, he had spent 15 months in a prison camp in Germany. When he returned home, he did not realize he was on the list. A Personal Note When Village President John Jacoby asked me to gather this information, I had no idea how many memories it would stir up from the years I was growing up in Wilmette. Even though I didn't know any of the honorees personally, I was in an adviser room at New Trier High School with George Bassler's sister, Dorothy, and in car pool with Edgar Penney's sister, Phyllis. I knew Clern Berghoff's family and Carl Hall's and John Parshall's parents, and Howard Henderson's father, and Thomas Fread's mother and grandmother. After living in Glenview and moving back to Wilmette 21 years ago, we became acquainted with Raymond Boudart's nephew. More recently Rechard Voigts' mother and Robert Keats' brother have became ourgood friends and most recently, Nancy Smith, committee chairman, and mother of John Phillips. Nor did I dream of the interesting people I would 'meet' by phone. Most had a story to tell. Each one was courteous and wanted to be helpful, and l thank them,. Acknowledgments In addition to the individuals who have already been identified I want to epress my special appreciation to the following who have assisted and encouraged me in this project: -iii-