( 1 ) Marvin Ferguson : Joined the Marines in 1940. He participated in three major battles: Midway, the Marsha US, and the Solomon Islands. Marvin was wounded once and defied death many times. Once he threw a blanket over a deadly hand grenade. The concussion blinded him temporarily, but the blanket saved his life.

( 2 ) Glen Ferguson : was inducted into the Air Force and served as an aircraft mechanic, chief correspondent for T.V. publications, and coordinator and expediter for docks. He was stationed at many bases in the United States and served a year in England. He traveled around the world twice.

( 3 ) Lester Ferguson : joined the Air Force in 1942 and was stationed in the South Pacific.

( 4 ) Scott Ferguson : was inducted in 1942. He became a corporal in the Army Medical Corp and served in New Guinea.

( 5 ) Lewis Ferguson : did not go until he was drafted in April 1944. He was nearing his 21st birthday and got only as far as the training camp.

( 6 ) Leonard Ferguson : was only 17, but he wanted to be where the action was.

His father, now deceased, had said, "When you are 17, you can go." So when his birthday came, he began to hassle his mother to let him go; they were in Boise, Idaho at the time. "Dad said I could go, remember?" "Oh, my son, you and Gene are all that I have left." Mom, I want to go," he insisted. "Alright, I will sign for you if you want to go that badly," said his mother. Leonard lost no time getting his mother down to the induction center in Boise where he enlisted with the Naval Reserve. His older brother Delbert scolded his mother, "You are sending him off to get killed." Leonard became a radio technician and learned the Morse Code thoroughly. He found the job of breaking the enemy code an exciting study. His training and experience with the Navy has been an asset to him in his chosen profession with the Utah Highway Patrol, where he has served for 30 years. For five years their mother stayed at home, hoping, praying and waiting for her boys to come home. Someone gave her a little red and blue pin with six white stars on it. She wore it proudly the rest of her life. . She was a six-star mother. All of her sons came home. Some carried the scars of battle to their grave.