Columbus resident to receive French Legion of Honor
On the 640-acre Alabama farm he grew up on, 16-year-old Joseph R. Johnson told his father he wanted to join the Army after World War II broke out.
Being underage, Johnson needed his father’s signature to go off to war. His father didn’t like that idea. Johnson persisted.
“We had a world to save,” he said last week. “If we left Hitler alone he would take over the world.”