Bill Anders

Anders was born on October 17, 1933, in British Hong Kong, to U.S. Navy LT Arthur Anders and his wife Muriel (nee Adams) Anders. The Anders family practiced Catholicism. Following Anders\' birth, the family relocated from Hong Kong to Annapolis, Maryland where Anders\' father began teaching mathematics at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. After a time, the family returned to China where Anders and his mother would escape to the Philippines following the Japanese attack of Nanking. With his mother, Anders started his journey to the Philippine Islands by troop train to Canton. While there, he and his mother stayed in a hotel 200 yards from a river the Japanese were bombing, the same river they would soon after be forced to travel in their escape.\n', '

While in the United States, Anders was active in the Boy Scouts, achieving the organizations second-highest rank, Life Scout. As…