Getting the gold
Documentary about Grants veteran wins Emmy

World War II Veteran Judson Hemperley talks of his life experiences at his home in Grants on Wednesday. Upon returning from the war on the European front as a medic, his life had changed forever. “I wouldn’t trade my experiences for a million dollars,” he said to his mother. “I went out there and I didn’t take any lives, but I saved a lot of them.” — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Adron Gardner

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Jim Tiffin
Cibola County Bureau

GRANTS — Staff Sgt. Judson Hemperley watched his Army medical aid station doctor jump into a foxhole to avoid being shot by a strafing German airplane during World War II.

“He broke his ankle, and we shipped out the next day,” Hemperley said. His Army unit was in Marseilles, France, in 1942.

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