Quiet Patriotism
was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1941, one month before Pearl Harbor. I don’t remember the war years, but I was instilled with love and pride for my father, Lem Dilley, the sixth of 10 children, who was raised on a dairy farm in Loogootee, Ind. He had worked at Ford Motor Company since 1936 after losing his wife and son, who left without a trace. In March 1940, he married my mother,
