Hoekema, Doug E., “Hoekzema, Doug (Interview outline and video), 2007,” Digital Collections, accessed December 6, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29004.
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Hoekzema, Doug (Interview outline and video), 2007
Doug Hoekzema served in the US Navy between 1953 and 1955. He served on a destroyer in the Pacific, and his ship patrolled the Korean coastline shortly after the armistice there. The ship then toured the world, and Hoekzema got reassigned to shore duty after that, possibly due to the intervention of his congressman, Gerald Ford.