Vera Anne Seidel-Hemphill
After immigrating from Germany to the United States in the early 1900s, the Seidel family had a rich history of serving the United States in times of war. Charles (CJ) Seidel served in the First World War with the U.S. Army, and his two oldest sons both joined the war effort in the Second World War by serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps (Walter "Walt") and the U.S. Navy (Donald "Don").