Hendricks Drives Night Three Of Cadiz Rotary Radio Auction

Hendricks Drives Night Three Of Cadiz Rotary Radio Auction

James William Hendricks still remembers where he was the fall of 1945, and the official end of World War II. About to turn 18 that late September, he was going back and forth often between Cadiz and Hopkinsville, chopping stove wood for his grandpappy in preparations for a typical frigid west Kentucky winter. That December, however, Hendricks was drafted through the Selective Service System — a practice that didn’t end until 1973 — and for two y…