Mort Sheffloe was born in Crookston, Minnesota in 1924. He attended public schools there, had a paper route, was in the Boy Scouts, and had the usual childhood growing-up experiences that one might expect in just about every way except for one thing. Today he says, I had four sisters, so I never ever had to wash dishes. During his senior year in high school he worked a part time job with Northwestern Bell Telephone Company. He received his draft notice when he was a senior but was allowed to finish (just barely) the school year and graduate with the Crookston High School Class of 1943. So then, in May 1943 he along with 35 others of his classmates, reported in at Fort...
