Medal of Honor Monday: Marine Corps Pfc. Frank Witek
(World News USA)

Medal of Honor recipients show extraordinary courage when facing down impossible situations. That was the case for Marine Corps Pfc. Frank Witek, who fought and died while liberating Guam from the Japanese during World War II. Witek was born Dec. 10, 1921, in Derby, Connecticut, but his family - including two sisters and three brothers - moved to Chicago when he was 9. He graduated high school there and went to work as a laborer at the Standard Transformer Company. Shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, 20-year-old Witek enlisted in the Marine Corps. He left for recruit training in late January 1942 and was soon sent to serve with the 3rd Marine...