John and Taylor Creighton are the youngest and last of seven Grundy County, Tennessee, brothers who accumulated more than 100 years of military service among them.
The Creighton family hails from Grundy’s Tarlton community.
John “Sonny” Creighton, 90, volunteered at 18 to join the U.S Navy in 1948 because all the Creighton brothers served their country. It was already a family tradition in his earliest memories, he said. The brothers are the children of the late Morgan and Elizabeth Creighton, and the tradition started with their sons.
John Creighton served from 1948 to 1952, spending his time during the Korean War at sea aboard the USS Missouri, a battleship.
His younger brother, sitting next to him, was a career military man.