Sanford Green of the Fairplay Community was a POW in World War II. Sanford was a friend of my grandfather, as a child. I think he was captured during the battle of the bulge.

During Sanford's life he chose not to tell folks about his ordeal, so I have never researched his story. After the war he moved to IL where he lived most of his life. He moved back to Fairplay when he retired and lived there until he died. Sanford was the definition of an American Hero and a fine Christian man. He paid a high price, so that people of Western Europe and beyond might live free from the rule of the Nazis.