Lawrence Sager was known by his family and friends in Herington, Kansas, as "Peewee", and as "Shorty" at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he worked for many years at the airbase as an airframe foreman. During World War II, Sager was a Staff Sergeant working on aircraft hydraulic systems, and saw action in Northern France and the Rhineland Theaters. He was proud to be called a "Tin Bender". His brother, Charles Joseph Sager, served in the South Pacific during World War II, with the US Army Signal Corps.