Lou Drendel of Venice, Fla. became a member of the 82nd Airborne at age 18 in 1955. He made 41 jumps but never left Fort Bragg. Photo provided

Long before he joined the 82nd Airborne Division as a peacetime warrior in the mid-1950s, Lou Drendel of Venice was fascinated with things military. It began when he was a kid and his father built balsa wood airplane models for him. Read the rest of this entry »