Free Republic

Morrie Martin attended the baseball conference at the World War II Museum in New Orleans in November 2007. He was there with other WWII veterans and former major leaguers such as Bob Feller, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, Lou Brissie and Jerry Coleman. He joined a panel discussion about the importance of the national pastime in the 1940s to a nation embroiled in world war. But when he got there, the unassuming Martin, who made the trip from his modest ranch-style home in Washington, Mo., was hesitant about his place. He confided to his family, "I don't belong on that stage....