“The legend of my grandfather was quite well known among our family,” says Clay Bonnyman Evans. His grandfather was U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr., who grew up in Knoxville, died in the 1943 Battle of Tarawa and posthumously received the Medal of Honor. “But what's sort of interesting is that we didn't know much else,” Evans says. “There wasn't a lot of detail. Even my mother and her living sister couldn't tell me very much about his life… my mother told me he had been buried