Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin is one of the many heroes you will come to know through her own words in Expressions of America.

Grant Ichikawa volunteered for US Army service while incarcerated in the Gila River camp. His service as a Japanese translator and interpreter was just the beginning of a long military career.

At Delta Shipbuilding Company, welder Mildred Aupied was part of an army of American civilians working to build the “Arsenal of Democracy.”

S/Sgt. James Killion, Jr. served for six years in the US Army. In the rain and mud of France, he dreamed of reuniting with his wife and meeting his infant son.

Entertainer Bob Hope brought comfort to generations of American troops on the Home Front and on battlefronts beginning in World War II.