Katie Lamar JacksonBennie G. Adkins is a retired US Army Command Sergeant Major and recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in March 1966 during the Vietnam War. After retiring from the Army in 1978 at the Army's highest enlisted rank, Adkins earned abachelor's and two master's degrees from Troy State University, then went on to run his own accounting company and teach classes at Southern Union Junior College and Auburn University. He and his wife live in Opelika, Alabama.

Katie Lamar Jackson is a writer, editor, and photographer with more than thirty years of experience as a journalist, author, communicator, public relations expert, and marketing specialist. Since retiring as editor and director of Auburn University's agricultural communications and marketing division in 2012, she has been teaching part-time in Auburn's School of Communications and Journalism and working as a full-time freelance writer, authoring books and magazine articles on a wide array of subjects. Jackson lives in Opelika, Alabama. Read More Read Less