Marian Wojciechowski was born April 25, 1914 in a region called Poland just as World War I was beginning. He grew up there when the country did not technically exist, and their language was forbidden. By the 1930s and the dawning of World War II, Wojciechowski was a young man struggling to understand what was transpiring, but knowing that he must participate in the Polish underground resistance against the Germans.

John L. Houck was born in Butte, Montana on May 11, 1944 to Vernon Houck and Mary (Kiehn) Houck. Houck and his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1953.