Gore, Jerry, “Gore, Jerry (Interview outline and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed December 6, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/28930.
Jerry Gore was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War in 1969. Having gone through Advanced Infantry Training, he served as a machine gunner and tunnel rat until he became too ill to fight. He states that he was in combat all the time, but chooses not to talk about it.