Bill Kelly's story begins on January 1, 1925, in rural Aurora, Illinois, the third of seven children born to an Irish Structural Steel Salesman father and a dedicated German-Irish mother. During his formative years, he toiled through the Great Depression, living off the land and hunting for food while attending school.Later, as an eighteen-year-old Navy Seabee in the South Pacific, he blasted land for roadways and airstrips, built the infamous Marine...