From the LaRue County Herald News, May 8, 2002:
Two Injured In 2-car Accident on 210
Two people were injured in a two-car accident at the intersection of Campbellsville Road and KY 470 on May 1.
According to the sheriff's report, a 1994 Ford Thunderbird driven by Bennie Warren, 79, of Hodgenville was eastbound on KY 210 around 4:30 p.m.
The Warren vehicle was struck by a 1984 Chevrolet Celebrity driven by Faye Drury, 58, also of Hodgenville, driving south on KY 470.
A passenger in the Warren vehicle, Ruby Warren, 81, was transported to Hardin Memorial Hospital by LaRue EMS and was treated and released.

From the book; CENTRAL KENTUCKY MILITARY HEROES:
BENNIE G. H. WARREN b. February 19, 1923, Hibernia, Kentucky
Branch of service: Army Co. K 121st Infantry Regiment
Rank: PFC
Military Service Dates: March 2, 1943 - September 27, 1945
Bennie G. H. and Ruby Morris Warren were married on July 24, 1945.
Children: Hardin, B. D. Warren, Melba
Veteran's parents: Elijah and Liccie Skaggs Warren - Hodgenville, LaRue County
Military Occupation Specialty: Rifleman 745
Battles: Normandy, France, Rhineland
Decorations: Combat Infantry Badge, EAME Ribbon 2 Stars, Purple Heart
Wounded in Germany on November 21, 1944
Service outside of the U. S. December 1943 - March 11, 1945
Service School: ASTP Camp Swift, Texas
Civilian Occupation: Farmer & Ky Dept of Transportation Employee

From the Herald News, June 2, 2004:
By RON BENNINGFIELDCorrespondent
Bennie Warren and Ronell Howell, World War II army veterans, received Patriot Medallion of Honor medals in a surprise ceremony May 23 at Corinth Baptist Church where they are members.
Ben Boix, a retired army command sergeant major associated with the Noncommissioned Officers Association, presented the medals which are given to honor all WWII vets.
"We're losing these veterans at the rate of over 1,000 per day, and we need to honor them now, while they're still with us," said Boix.
Warren was a 20-year-old private first class when he saw combat in France and was wounded in Belgium. Assigned to the Third Army's Eighth Division, 121st Regiment, he was a scout, working several yards in front of his platoon, seeking out the enemy.
On one occasion, as they slipped behind enemy lines, he and his fellow soldiers found themselves surrounded by Germans in an apple orchard. For six days the GI's fought to survive.
"We had only the food we had brought with us, but luckily we found a house that had some water and we made do until help came," Warren recalled.
On another patrol he was scouting a few yards ahead of the rest of his men when he saw movement in a hedge to his left.
"I guess I scared one of them when I walked right up on him," Warren surmised. "I didn't know there was a German within a mile."
Not being able to see into the hedge, he opted to lob a grenade instead of firing his Thompson sub-machine gun.
"I pulled the pin and held it in my hand 'til it popped, then tossed it," he said. The explosion killed a couple of German soldiers but another 21 Germans in the hedge surrendered to him and the advancing platoon.
His injury occurred when his men were in a Belgium forest when German artillery opened up on them.
"I remember that there was a skift of snow on. We cut some pine trees and lay among them for protection," he said. One artillery round exploded near him, driving pieces of shrapnel into his right foot, leaving permanent damage and ending his combat.
Captured nine Germans
Ronell Howell was in the Ninth Armored Division that fought in the Battle of the Bulge. As a platoon sergeant, he was in charge of a 25-man mortar platoon.
He captured nine German soldiers as a result of having to answer the call of nature.
"I went behind this little building to relieve myself and happened to look under the door that was closed but whose bottom was a couple inches off the floor," said Howell. "I saw a German soldier's pant leg."
Howell yelled for one of his soldiers to get his rifle because there were Germans in the shed.
About five seconds later, the door opened and out stepped eight men and one woman with their arms up, all German soldiers.
"One of them was a captain who spoke English as well as I did," said Howell. The captain understood Howell's asking for his weapon and knew their best choice was to give up. "We were on one side of Berlin and the Russians were on the other," said Howell. "The Germans had rather give themselves up to us than the Russians.~~
Though he spent five years and two months in the army, a lot of it in combat, he was never wounded. But he remembers one especially close call.
"I was sitting on a half-track right next to a stretcher bearer," he said. Out of nowhere a sniper fired a round at him that bore through the stretcher bearer and passed just below his rear end.
"That makes you start
thinking seriously about a lot of things when a bullet comes whizzing by that close," he acknowledged.
Then and now
Howell feels there's hardly any comparison between the war in Iraq and the war he fought.
"The Iraqis have a lot of determination carrying them forward but that's about it. The Germans were more disciplined, better fighters. They knew how to get the job done and that's not my opinion of the Iraqis."
Warren believes the biggest difference in the two wars is that the Germans wore uniforms that marked them as adversaries.
"Our soldiers go into a city in Iraq and all the people are wearing the same type of clothes; some of them want to kill you and others don't, said Bennie Warren. "I feel so sorry for our boys because unless they're fired on, they can't tell enemy from friend."
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From the Elizabethtown News Enterprise, July 9, 2004:
By JOHN FRIEDLEIN
Bennie Warren didn't notice the machine gun barrel sticking out of the hedge. In fact, he stepped right over it. Then the Nazi jerked his gun, and Warren saw it.
"I dared not run because I wouldn't have made it," he said.
The scout stood at least 400 feet from his buddies in the French field. So he blasted the nest with a hand grenade, spooking more than 20 enemy troops into surrender.
Warren, of Hodgenville, is one of the first local veterans of possibly hundreds to receive a Patriot Medallion from an Elizabethtown couple on a crusade to honor them before they're gone.
"These guys came back and never asked for any recognition," said Lela Boix, who, along with her husband, Ben, have decided to raise money to buy medals for the vets. She points out that they are dying nationwide at a rate of about 1,200 a day. Many of them are in their 80s.
Lela Boix has compiled a list of more than 400 names so far, getting most of them from U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis' office.
"I'm finding out there are a lot more vets than I originally anticipated," she said.
The Non-Commissioned Officers Association mints the medals. Despite the name, anyone who served in the war can receive one, which cost $37 each.
Boix will present the medallions to Hardin County veterans at their church, club or nursing home. Others may receive the medals during a larger ceremony at a meeting hall.
Boix plans to hand them out until the end of the year.
Ben Boix gave Warren and fellow vet Ronell Howell medals during a May 23 ceremony at Corinth Baptist Church in Buffalo.
Warren, 81, said it's nice the couple is passing out the medals and he appreciates getting his, 60 years after he was wounded in a snowy pine thicket. On that patrol, Warren had pushed 30 miles into Germany when an artillery shell exploded in a nearby treetop, driving shrapnel into his foot.
Vets aren't always quick to discuss such memories.
"I try to forget all that stuff," Warren said. "But it'll come to you once and a while."
World War II soldiers had to act in extreme conditions.
''We might not have been here if we hadn't," Warren said.

OBITUARY: Bennie Green Hardin Warren, age 87, of Hodgenville, passed away, Saturday, June 19, 2010, at the Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown.He was an Army veteran of WWII having received the ?Purple Heart?, a lifetime farmer and a member of the Corinth Baptist Church where he served as song leader for many years.He was preceded in death by his parents, Elijah and Liccie Skaggs Warren, eight sisters, Rosettie Skaggs, Mary Fisher, Liza Jane Warren, Lena Skaggs, Sally Grimes, Edna Grimes, Dora Hall, and Gracie Warren; two brothers, Jeptha Warren and Leslie Warren; and a son-in-law, Tommy Bennett.Mr. Warren is survived by his wife, of nearly 67 years, Ruby Morris Warren; a daughter, Melba Bennett of Buffalo; two sons, Bennie D. (Mary Lynn) Warren of Hodgenville and Hardin (Karen) Warren of Magnolia; five grandchildren, Fabian (Michelle) Bennett, Benjamin ?Bow? (Jamie) Warren, Tonya (Danny) Snodgrass, Cody (Adryanne) Warren and Tara Warren; and eight great-grandchildren, Samuel Bennett, Isaiah Bennett, Noah Bennett, Josiah Bennett, Daniel Snodgrass, Titus Snodgrass, Ava Warren, and Kaylee Warren.Funeral Services will be held 2 PM Tuesday, June 22, 2010, at the Corinth Baptist Church, Rev. Tim Maggard officiating. Burial will follow in the Church Cemetery.