Veteran's History Project - Kenneth W. Mueller

Kenneth W. Mueller

Staff Sergeant

U. S. Army

World War II

Editor's Note: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

Kenneth "Ken" Mueller has been a part of this community for nearly all his 92 years. He was raised on a farm north of Potter, Neb.

He graduated high school and knew of the war raging in Europe and in the Pacific. Right out of high school, he used the farm deferment to help his parents on their farm. The defer...