316 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e2b733e8000a10a8422afd1554454ec7.jpg 1e2e1903b28d16cd36d6a73b1d118e92 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection Field House Dome 1970s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_000014 Title A name given to the resource Field House. View from Campus Drive Description An account of the resource Field House dome from Campus Drive, ca. 1970. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) 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Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection Field House Dome 1970s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_000020 Title A name given to the resource Field House. View of dome in the snow Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Van der Lende, Craig Description An account of the resource Field House dome taken from across a snow covered field, ca. 1975. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) 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Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection Field House Dome 1960s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_000013 Title A name given to the resource Field House. Workers standing on dome during construction Description An account of the resource View from floor of Field House, looking up at workers standing on the frame of the dome, during construction, ca. 1968. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) 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Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection Field House Dome 1960s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_000015 Title A name given to the resource Field House. Workers standing on dome during construction Description An account of the resource View from floor of Field House, looking up at workers standing on the frame of the dome, during construction, ca. 1968. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Construction Facilities Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives color photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/494607ba3913223d9e500b78fb0c5e24.jpg 4ba14973e0d6648edd68f868be2f59fd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1990s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_000372 Title A name given to the resource Fieldhouse Description An account of the resource Fieldhouse on the Allendale campus. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State College Michigan Allendale (Mich.) 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Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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Universities and colleges Facilities Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives color photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/241fc91e7500da004b1adc15410e74b9.jpg 8947f6c4068b3555a4875d0d2c496dd6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection Fieldhouse 1970s Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1970s Title A name given to the resource Fieldhouse Dome. Female student walking outside Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_001670 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Description An account of the resource Female student in the forgound walking past the Fieldhouse on campus. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Students Facilities Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In copyright - Non-commercial use permitted.</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives black and white photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c876b7661e01ed9b33b8dbceae17d2cc.jpg da73cfdbe31fd07ce30e7b2e136736e1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection Fieldhouse 1970s Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1970s Title A name given to the resource Fieldhouse. Audience seated inside the Fieldhouse Dome Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_001647 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Description An account of the resource Interior view of a seated audience in the Fieldhouse Dome. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Facilities Students Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In copyright - Non-commercial use permitted.</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0172a3062d99f398fe9d50ff85b609b2.mp4 47193585c128ed708a6a9b8adb3709a1 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c054b3817ef2220ab3d9fb19c8bc0a84.pdf c488c9f2b653536c0f2819fdfed5c4f0 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: Vietnam Interviewee: Mike Fields Length of Interview: 01:03:44 Background:             He was born of 1939 in Seattle, Washington. He was only there a month or so before he mom moved back to southern California to be with his dad. They lived in different cities around Los Angeles until he was 7 years old, and then they moved to Oregon. His father worked at a defense plant, building planes. After he moved to Oregon, his father worked as a mechanic. He would attend high school then. Back then you were subject to the draft when you turned 18 and he didn’t want to be in the Army and march everywhere, nor did he want to be in the Navy and get sea sick. And he always liked planes. He thought they had they had the best looking uniform, except for the Marine Corps blues. He decided to join the Air Force because he grew up in a small farming community and there were really no other talents to learn besides farming and he didn’t really want to do that. So the military looked like a good option. Originally he intended to make it a career. He would enlist in 1957, right after high school, but there was a waiting list. He would be officially inducted on July 17th. He would be sent to Lackland Air Force Base, in Texas. It is now the only Air Force Basic Training Camp open today. They used to have two more, one in California and one in New York, but now they have consolidated everything. Training (3:40)       The training consisted of some classroom time. An hour was spent on military courtesies and how to recognize the different ranks and the different services. There was also drilling. They also had 3 days of survival training, where at the end they would have to qualify to receive their weapon. You have to qualify once a year to make sure that you keep up with it. He thinks everyone has problems adjusting to basic training. It’s a very big culture shock. After the first week or so though there were no problems. Discipline and obeying orders was a huge part of their training. They had to call anyone above their own rand sir, which was normally reserved for the commissioned officers. �              If it was above 90 degrees, all outside training was suspended. So they spent the afternoon training inside one day, and they practiced saluting. Training lasted 12 weeks. After that he ended up going to Airborne Radio Repair School, which was located at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. The facility there was much more relaxed. The buildings were very old and they had to use coal for heating. Each person had to have their fair share of firing duty. They all had to march to class in formation, they had to address all their instructors as sir even though some of them were civilians and some of them were females. They taught them about 6 weeks of basic electronic theory. After learning about it, they would have to put back together some things that their instructors had taken apart. They had about 6 or 7 different sets to fix. They radios that the crew used and some of the navigation stuff that was used as well. He would pass doing well enough. While he was there he would have a Class A liberty pass. You carry it with you and whenever you’re not on duty you can leave the post. There were dances or movies they could do for fun. They were neighbors with the people of that community and they tried to treat them with respect. Anyone who caused trouble was dealt with harshly. There’s always guys going off and getting drunk. Since Scott was federally owned property things cannot be dealt with there by the local police. There was one time when this guy was being chased by the cops, for what, he doesn’t know. And he drove through the main gate and the guard at the gate stopped the cop, because he was not allowed in there. After he completed the radio training he was sent to Portland, Oregon for his first assignment. Active Duty (9:40)        He would live 90 miles from home. He would be assigned to the 460th Fighter Interceptor Group at the Air Defense Command. Today, ADC doesn’t exist as it was taken over by Strategic Air Command because they tend to run both tactical and intercept missions. Originally, when he got there they had Korean vintage F-89’s, Scorpions. A good aircraft but not a loved one. Usually if you lost one engine, you went down. Shortly after he got there they transitioned to F-102’s which were top-of-the-line at the time. They were the first plane that could go faster than the speed of sound at level flight. He would work as an aircraft radio repairman. They had more non-coms than ordinary enlisted men. There were so many WWII and Korean veterans there, killing time until retirement, that there was no room for advancement. So he was cross-trained to be an administrative clerk, which was the only place you could earn rank because there was no retention. �                  He had to give up the stripes to become a clerk, but he got his stripes back on minimum time and grade. He would spend about a year as a radio repairman. While working in that position he would check the planes before they went out and checked them when they came back. In between then, you studied what the Air Force called technical orders, or TO’s, and they were all manuals about the aircraft. You just make yourself as familiar with the planes as you could. And when you got gone with them, you would look through the TO’s of the equipment. Every piece of equipment had its own TO, right down to the spare tire on the jeep. You would get tested periodically for your skill levels. The Air Force has skill levels at 1,3,5,7, and 9. And you can only go to a certain rank at each skill level. Once you’ve achieved that level, you start practicing for the next level. Each year you are tested at that skill level. He believes that is smart. It makes sure people haven’t been goofing off and losing their skills, forgetting things. When he was there, the Cold War was going on. He had two instances of where he thought a war with Russia might break out. The first one was when he was sent to Labrador. And while he was up there, they had the Berlin Wall crisis. They had all of the military services on alert. A lot of reserves had been called into action in Europe. The second time he was transferred to K.I. Sawyer Base, near Marquette, Michigan. And while he was up there, the Cuban Missile Crisis at the time. His brother was in the Navy at the time, assigned to an old WWII liberty ship in the Philippines. They made a record of going from the Philippines, through the Panama Canal and up to Cuba, with a load of ready Marines. Living Portland, it sort of felt like a regular job, but they also had regular tests, tactical evaluations and operation readiness evaluations. During these, a siren would go off in the early morning hours, and the base would be run exactly as if you were in war, for a couple of days at least. Normally, when the siren goes off, you grab your nearest clothes and get to your station. Then as soon as things calm down, the non-commissioned officer will go around and send people to the barracks to change their clothes and then to the mess hall, to get something to eat. And then they would come back, and resume normal duties. When he became a clerk, during simulated wartime conditions, non-essential personnel are put on other duties. So he was placed on a turnaround crew. When the F-102’s came in, you would have to basically prepare them for another mission. And this is stuff you’re not initially trained for. And the chief officer usually wasn’t there. Instead there would be one of the crew who was there who told you what to do. While he was working as a clerk, he worked for the chief of maintenance. His office was in the hanger and he was in charge of maintenance of all the aircraft there. They had maintenance orders, maintenance directives to type up all the time. Letters needed to be typed. Fortunately, he had two semester of typing in high school. He would live on base at that time, but would go off base with his liberty pass. (18:30) Eventually, he would get transferred to Labrador. These would be a routine transfer that occurred every couple of years. �Labrador (18:50)  He wanted to go to Germany or Japan, but everybody did. He got lucky.  They worst part about being in Labrador was that he was supposed to serve a year of duty and he was sent back a month early. 3 weeks before Bob Hope came up.  They were on a mountain top, 10 miles from the main base. He worked at a radar sight.  They had a “bus”, a 2-ton truck with a house built on the back of it, to take people to and from the radar sight.  There, they made him the squadron mail clerk, and he was also the courier. He would have a truck to use to go and get mail. He was not allowed to let anyone ride in the cab with him, but he could bring people in the back.  The weather there is very much like the U.P. The lakes were great fishing, according to some.  There were about 300-400 people working at the radar station. They had their own storage, mess hall, and everything.  It would be the same as working on the base except for the time of duty. On the base, you had to serve 18 months while at the radar station you only had to serve a year.  They had easy access to the base, but had to make sure they could be back in time to attend to their duties.  They even had their own radio station up there. He was a volunteer DJ up there. The Canadian government would not let them put up an antenna. But they found another way to get their station not only out to eastern Canada, but also up to Greenland.  They played a little bit of everything on the station.  The base primarily a fighter base. They did have refueling aircraft there. They also had modified B-29’s.  Occasionally, it would be a place for planes to stop by in transit to and from the Atlantic, but more often those went to New Finland. Politically, Labrador is part of Newfoundland.  There were some natives there who worked for them. Apparently they paid better than the Canadian Air Force.  There was a village not too far from where they were at called Happy Valley.  There was a bar there, where occasionally some of the boys would get liquored. One time, one decided that he wanted to take on a few Mounties. Minimum requirements for Mounties at the time were 6’6” and 250 lbs. And this guy was pretty average. It really shows courage out of the bottle.  At the time of the Berlin Wall Crisis, they were going about their normal duties. The base was being used as a midway stop for all military aircraft.  Later on, he was working there and someone, they don’t know who it was, only that they were military, blew up a couple of radio towers in the desert in Utah. It caused so much of a panic that they were given their weapons with live ammunition; the first time since basic training they had live ammo.  Come to find out, it was the work of the IRA, in 1960 when they were still really active.  The second line of defense looked for soviet aircraft. He never heard anything if there were any aircraft because it was a strictly a need to know basis.  Back when he was in Portland, the ADC and the Canadian Air Defense got together and created NORAD. They would have one of their fighters go out to the Bering Sea and �  turn off their identification. The point of the exercise was to see how far he got before they could identify it. He got a bit into Alaska, but never made it to Canada. While in Labrador, if they had any unidentified bogeys they would send fighters up to try and identify the craft as well. He would then be transferred to K.I. Sawyer K.I. Sawyer (28:25)                 It’s near Marquette, Michigan. That part of the U.P. is populated with people from Finland, or at least their descendants. They were good people, but when you got in town and they did not like military people. You would have to wait 20-30 minutes before getting a glass of water. He doesn’t really understand the hostility other than other branches of the service, who don’t try to get along with the locals. There again, when they were up there they got to go off base and visit the cities. While he was there, they had $2 pay days. This is where they would try to give out as much pay as they could in $2 bills. This is supposed to bring attention to the locals just how much military is there. No other action was taken. And of course, everybody gets the day off. It didn’t do any good. The only good he can think of with the locals was when they said they were going to close K.I. Sawyer. Suddenly they were very “buddy-buddy” He served with all kinds of people from all different walks of life. He didn’t feel like there were any cultural or racial tensions while he was on base. He saw tension within ethnic groups, but never between ethnic groups. Of the 70 men that he trained with about half were African American. They were good guys. Some of them were from the streets and needed some polishing, but they were good guys. They were a little defensive, but if he had lived their life, he probably would have been too. As long as you could pass the physical, the Air Force would take pretty much anybody. He did know a man who was inducted in Portland and he got down to Lackland and when they had him do all of the testing, they had to send him home because he was slightly retarded. A wonderful person who wanted to help and contribute. Morale was pretty good most of the time on the bases that he served. The Air Force tried to make it that way as much as they could. First of all the food was great. He was in 6 years and 4 months and he only had 2 meals where they were iffy. They had steak every Sunday dinner, served on china. Every Friday some kind of seafood. They had lobster tails once in a while. The Air Force keeps morale up with goodies, like good food and pride in their professionalism. If you don’t keep up with the professional standards, you will be involuntarily cross-trained or you will be reclassified to a civilian. Depending on what you did decided if you were discharged with honor, dishonorably or less than honorably conditions. The Air Force tends to be lenient with people in that regard. �               When he was at KI Sawyer, he was on the Standardization Board. It was his job to make sure crews maintained efficiency at their jobs. A lot of it was top secret, so he can’t say a whole lot about it, but these were full crews with gunner, teaching gunners and tanker crews. Then he was pulled out of there and moved to the alert facility and things there were very relaxed, unless the alarm goes off. When they have nuclear weapons on a plane, they are not allowed to board alone; they have to have someone else with them. It’s called a two-man policy. Well, one day something had happened and everybody was in a scramble and one man tried to board a plane by himself. He was stopped by a security guard and would later complain to his boss that he was stopped. But the boss didn’t do anything for the man, saying that the man did what he was trained to do, and if he hadn’t he would be on his way out of the Air Force. (39:30) That young lieutenant learned a lesson that day. He honestly thought he was doing the right thing, but he learned. He was up there for when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened. But he was stuck underground from when Kennedy made his speech until December 22, so he didn’t get to see a whole lot of what was happening in the world. They had a lot to do; otherwise the men on duty would go bonkers. So they were kept pretty busy. The intensity level was pretty much the same and they were already ready. He remembers Kennedy saying that they were to respect Khrushchev as a peace seeker. He would be in the Air Force for another year after this happened. He considered reenlisting, but he was getting really bored. The only thing they offered him was a position as a general’s orderly. It’s not a bad duty, but he just didn’t want to do that. He had no idea what he wanted to do, even when he got that. It was probably the dumbest thing he ever did, leaving the Air Force. But if he had not gotten out then he probably would never have met his wife. So, he believes things happen for a reason. Post Duty (45:45)        After he got out of the Air Force, he went and lived with his mother in Illinois and got a job at a bookstore down there. He became engaged to a girl who lived in Grand Rapids and moved up here to live near here. The engagement, however, did not work out. He stayed in Grand Rapids anyway and worked as a bookkeeper for an oil company. Then he worked as an aircraft instrument calibrator for a company that is now closed. He would spend most of his adult life doing electrical work, mostly with vending machines. For the last 3 or 4 years he worked as a PC Engineer. The Air Force gave him a lot of self-confidence. He learned that he could do a lot more than he thought he could do. He found out in Lackland that his IQ was 125. �            He believes that people should join the armed forces to give themselves a sense of worth and self-confidence. He also believes that they should do away with the requirement of a high school diploma to get kids off the street and something to do. He believes it will give them a purpose. One time in basic training, one man went AWOL. Then next day, they found out he was AWOL in the Marine Corps. So he would be in double trouble when they catch him. He extended his enlistment by 4 months so he could go to Europe, England for a temporary duty there. He enjoyed thoroughly. He still did clerical work while he was there for USAFE, United States Air Force Europe. He got into Cambridge quite frequently, but he got into London once. He got to a theater and saw the opening of James Bond: From Russia with Love. The English were very friendly to him and he really enjoyed his time over there. While he was over there, there was a problem with men taking women into their tents to have “personal time”. They were not allowed to be in the tents. So that personal time was spent in the neighboring fields instead. But, if the girl didn’t say “yes” then you would be forced to marry her. (58:30) He would also have his first experience with traffic circles, or roundabouts over there. Their electrical system there is all underground from the years of the blitz. Even though there were no more blitzes, it’s useful because they don’t have the outages like we do here. It’s very expensive to own a car over there, so they make them last. He really wanted to spend some time touring Ireland and Scotland, but he didn’t have the time. When he was in Portland, he used to ride up with some of the men driving the WWII transports. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. 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Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng 1979s https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e9889f7e49ba7000a05a2ab4d339f9ad.mp4 2eca68f3cd043e7a883f73b16db30141 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7fa2312c87f610e2497ea82d10d88db8.pdf 1da96a0e9e1b15f94c9729283d7f9ecf PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: Vietnam Interviewee’s Name: Larry Fieser Length of Interview: 1:12:07 Interviewed by: James Smither Transcribed by: Sam Noonan Interviewer: “We’re talking today with Larry Fieser of Webster Groves, Missouri, interviewer is James Smither of the Grand Valley State University veteran’s history project. Okay, now Larry start us off with some background on yourself, and to begin with where and when were you born?” Yeah, I was born in St. Louis, 1950, basically I was born the day my mother’s father died. Which, for what that’s worth… Interviewer: “Now did you grow up there, or did you move around?” Yeah, I stayed there my whole life, stayed in the same house, [address.] Interviewer: “And what did your family do for a living when you were a kid?” My father was an auto mechanic, and my mother was a homemaker, went to Catholic school in the area. Interviewer: “Did you have relatives who were in the service before you?” Yeah, my father was a medic in World War 2 and he was in … and he received a medal for… purple heart and a bronze star, for duty there, and he had a brother that died at Anzio, Adolf – they used to tease him because Adolf and Herman, was my father’s name, goes back to the Hitler days. Interviewer: “Right, okay. Now did your father ever talk about his service?” Never talked about the service at all. The only thing I knew is that he had some pictures that he had of war experiences that my mother did not like, and she protested that he get rid of them, and he apparently never did. Since he’s passed now, we’ve found – my sister discovered, that he still [had] the pictures. Interviewer: “Alright. Let’s see now, did you finish high school?” �Yeah, I went to a Catholic high school, Bishop DuBourg in St. Louis, and then I went into going to Merrimack during drafting [times.] Interviewer: “What is Merrimack?” (2:16) Merrimack Community College. I did get about – I guess I’ve got maybe, well I was taking an engineering curriculum. I was doing alright, I just didn’t understand when I was gonna get to drive the train, so anyway I kinda got frustrated with all the stuff going with the Vietnam War and everything, and I figured I wasn’t that interested at the time, and I was kind of distracted with the war news, reports, and I just decided, you know, ‘let’s get it over with, then I’ll come back and live my life.’ Interviewer: “Okay, so school wasn’t really for you at that point in time and you knew if you leave that Uncle Sam will come calling anyway.” Right. I felt like it was inevitable, so I just volunteered for the draft. Interviewer: “Alright. Now for people who don’t know what that is, what’s the difference between volunteering for the draft and simply enlisting in a conventional sense?” Well, I believe there was some age restriction on when they could take you, you could get a student deferment and probably stay in school – which a lot of people did. I never bothered to put in for the deferment, so basically I just decided to – I went down to the draft board and said ‘go ahead and… I’m ready to go.’ Interviewer: “Okay. So rather than wait for them to eventually send you the notice, what you figure will happen – you just go ahead and sign up and get it over with.” Right, exactly and I – the prior year after that they went to the lottery and I think my number would’ve been [second.] Interviewer: “Yeah, okay, so you decided – so when is it that you decided to enter the service?” Well it was pretty much toward the end of ’68, I was working at Sears and you know, I just didn’t really have any future ambitions at the time because I had this cloud of Vietnam hanging over my head, and I’d seen guys that were – I was aware of what was going on. So I just decided, it’s either now or never, you know I [couldn’t] live in limbo. Interviewer: “Right. Okay, so do you report to St. Louis first for processing or..?” �Yeah, it was in Webster area, Webster Groves, we just went down there and told them – I guess I signed something — Interviewer: “Well once you sign up though, when you’re gonna head off for training, do they process you before sending you to where you go for basic, or did you have a physical someplace?” We went somewhere, I’m not sure exactly.. downtown St. Louis I think? And then I remember doing some test, I know they had some test that you had to go through, I know there was a colorblind test you had to take and a friend of mine was there from school, and I helped him to pass the colorblind test because he said, ‘well they had a party for me, you know I can’t go back,’ and I said ‘well I’m not colorblind’ and so anyway I helped him pass the colorblind test so he went in, eventually I found out that he went over for eight months and toward the end of his enlistment. (5:26) Interviewer: “Alright. Now, so did you notice anybody trying to sort of scam the system or – cause you have the physical, in some places people try to find interesting ways to…” Well I had some friends that actually had, they had relatives that were doctors that would certify that they were 4F (Disabled and Unfit for Military Service), or had flat feet, or whatever. You know, there were some ways to get around that. Interviewer: “Alright, so you’re aware of that kind of thing. So where did they send you now, —” Then I went to Fort Leonard Wood, that would’ve been in February, actually a friend of mine went in in January and didn’t tell me he went in, so that was pretty much my … to go in the service, cause I was like ‘why didn’t you tell me you were going?’ you know, and then so when I realized he went, then I said ‘well I might as well go too,’ so he was in a month earlier than me but we were at basic the same time but we never met, we were in different areas. Interviewer: “Yeah. Different companies, different stages of the training. Okay, so you go to Fort Leonard Wood, now what – what do you actually do in basic training?” (6:35) Well basically you just kind of go through a grueling physical, mostly physical and mental – I remember the first time I went up the stairs they called us to formation, I came down and I didn’t have my hat, and I turned around to go back up to get my hat and the drill sergeant goes, ‘where you going?’ I said I forgot my hat, and he walloped me across the face and said ‘you won’t forget it again, will you?’ and I never forgot my hat again. �Interviewer: “Alright, how hard was it for you to adjust to life in the Army?” It wasn’t really that hard in basic because I pretty much made my mind up that I didn’t have any other choice, so I was just gonna do what I had to do. You have to conform, we did have a couple other people that wouldn’t conform and they would say don’t bother going to the … they’d call them out and then they’d let the peer pressure determine… you know you wanna run another mile cause of this guy? Or you wanna fix it, so pretty much they used peer pressure to instill that it’s better for all of us to be on the same page. Interviewer: “Okay, so you learned to follow orders, you do a lot of physical training, do you get any weapons training at that point?” We got some weapon training and they had some live-fire simulations, in fact I learned later that a fellow I went to high school with got killed in the live training – but I didn’t know about that until recently. But yeah, not much – I didn’t really feel like I got an adequate amount of combat training. Interviewer: “Right, well that wasn’t really combat training per say, so much as orientation for the Army, if you needed advanced individual training you’d get more than that if you were going that way, now what time of year was it that you were in basic?” (8:55) It would’ve been like February to April. Interviewer: “Okay, so what was the weather like out there?” Well, we had one day we got in formation, we called it Little Korea, but we got in formation, it was snowing, three or four in the morning, by the end of the day it was like seventy degrees, and we were taking our, taking everything off, we were sweating, it was miserable. Interviewer: “Alright, okay. So how long did basic last?” Eight weeks. Interviewer: “Now, what happens to you next?” Then I was transferred for M.O.S., which was – is a medic, was my M.O.S., down to Fort Sam Houston, and that was a ten-week advanced training. Interviewer: “How did you get that M.O.S., did you request it or was it just assigned to you —“ �I didn’t request it, I assumed aptitude tests, a lot of the other tests, I even think maybe they researched prior history of military from maybe my father being a medic, and maybe that had something to do with it, but I really don’t know how I was designed to be [a medic.] Interviewer: “So you didn’t, you didn’t mark that off on a list someplace, they just put you there?” Right. Interviewer: “Alright. And then did your father have a response when he found out you were going to be a medic?” No. Interviewer: “Okay. Alright, so you got that assignment, you go to Fort Sam Houston in Texas now, describe the training program there.” (10:25) Well, we had a ten-week training and about half of it was for combat training, and [a lot of it was about] anatomics, you know, stuff that you had to learn, and then about the other five weeks would’ve been clinical, like if you were in a hospital. So it was pretty much half and half, we gave each other injections, you know we were pincushions and some people told me we were going to use oranges to practice, but I never saw an orange. Interviewer: “Okay. Alright, and what kinds of people were training you for this?” I’m not really sure, I’m imagining they were nurse-qualified or doctor-qualified. Interviewer: “But did any of them actually talk about having been in Vietnam, or was that—” No. I don’t remember any discussion of anybody with any type of military experience as far as that. Interviewer: “Okay, alright. And how long did that training session go?” It was a ten-week training. Interviewer: “Okay. Once you complete that, do you get assigned someplace in the States, or do you go to Vietnam, or what happens next?” Well, that’s the thing – I was assigned to an infantry unit, at the time I felt like – at least I wasn’t infantry, I’m a medic, but I don’t know what the percentage of people were, I do know there were �a couple people who had allocations for physical therapy, and I think one of them was a big football player from some college that maybe had some influence to get their son to that type of training. But I think most of them probably went to Vietnam, I would assume – I don’t know how they distinguished— (12:27) Interviewer: “Well, was that where you were sent after training?” Actually they gave me a thirty-day leave, and I went home for thirty days and watched a man land on the moon, and (laughter) got ready to go over to Vietnam. Interviewer: “Okay, and how much did you know about Vietnam at that point?” I didn’t know hardly anything, I mean I’d seen protesting the war, I’d seen, you know the pictures everybody saw. But pretty much I had, I mean I had a brother-in-law that had been there in ’65 but we never really talked about that. Interviewer: “Okay, so you really didn’t have much of any idea of what you were getting into at that point.” No, no. Interviewer: “Okay. So what’s the process for getting you to Vietnam?” Well, I flew out to Oakland and today, fifty years ago, got on a jet plane and headed over to Vietnam. Interviewer: “Alright, and was it a chartered commercial jet or military plane or—” I’m not sure the name of the plane, I’d never heard of the name before, it wasn’t like the old TWA and stuff. But yeah, we landed in Hawaii, Guam, and then to Vietnam. Interviewer: “Okay. And where did you land in Vietnam?” Bien Hoa. I think that was down south— Interviewer: “Yeah that’s outside of Saigon. Okay. And did you land in the day, or at night?” I believe it was during the day. Interviewer: “And what’s your first impression of Vietnam when you get there?” �Hot. (laughter) Hot, and there was kind of a smell, kind of an odor different than fresh air. Interviewer: “Yeah. Two most common responses, the heat and the smell. Okay, when you get off the plane what do they do with you?” (14:31) Well, we loaded up onto a truck I guess, a deuce-and-a-half? (CCKW 6x6) I’m not sure the size of the truck, and we just started driving north, and I just – I don’t know long it took for us to get up there but we just keep going and going and going.. [I was thinking] well North Vietnam, we’re gonna end somewhere! Interviewer: “Now did you have a unit assignment at this time?” I’m not sure. I don’t remember ever hearing any unit, I think they took me in, got to Camp Evans, and then the next thing within the day or so I guess we’re out in A Shau Valley. Interviewer: “Alright, okay – so yes, we’re at the very end of June here – did you get any kind of Vietnam orientation course or anything? Or just straight out in—” No, straight out. Interviewer: “Okay. Now you go to Camp Evans, and Camp Evans – now you’re up in the far northern section of South Vietnam, … and Camp Evans is one of the big bases for the 101st Airborne.” Right. Interviewer: “Okay. And now, what unit within the 101st are you assigned to?” It was the First of the 506. Interviewer: “Okay. Alright, and as a medic are you officially part of an individual right line company, or are you headquarters or what are you?” Well physically the medics all stayed in their own barracks and the units would stay in their barracks, I was assigned to Alpha company – they flew me out right away, I mean it was within a day or two from being in Vietnam I was in the A Shau Valley, there was a medic there, Doc Jones, that they introduced me to. He’d been there for a while, I think he’d been in the country maybe seven months. They called incoming, I didn’t know what that – first they were playing cards, everybody’s having a good time. Then the next thing they say incoming, hit the trench and everybody runs out, we jump in this trench in the floor of the A Shau Valley, and mortars are coming in. And apparently this was a daily thing, and I turned to my right and looked down in the trench after the mortar hit, and I couldn’t hear anything. People’s mouths were moving, I’m �not hearing anything, and I saw Doc Jones in a – like a fetal position in the trench, and I’m going ‘oh my god this guy’s been here seven months?’ And I kinda resolved, hey I’m gonna die, let’s make the best of it, you know? Do what you can. (17:13) Interviewer: “Okay, now after that attack did Jones or anybody else try to show you the ropes at all or tell you what to do?” No, no. Probably within, I’d say within the next day we were going on my first C.A. into an area… well I didn’t… a jungle. Interviewer: “So C.A. being combat assault?” Yeah, yeah. Combat assault. The … apparently set it up, we entered on this hill, I jumped out – we jumped out, we started heading down the ridgeline, they called back – the gunships were sailing, we see friendlies moving, we see enemies or someone moving along the ridgeline, they called back to the battalion, they asked them they said ‘is there any friendlies in the area?’ They said ‘no, there’s no friendlies.’ So my first experience was to be shot by a Cobra gunship. We had four guys died, I medevaced a few, I didn’t – I mean that’s probably the worst experience, and you never want to hear that sound. Interviewer: “Yeah, that’s a sort of welcome to Vietnam.” Yeah. Interviewer: “So basically you’re on your own and you have to figure out what to do?” Yeah pretty much, it was on the job, I mean I didn’t know what was going on to begin with and probably nobody else did, I don’t know how many people ever got shot by our own gunships, but— Interviewer: “It happened.” Yeah, and anyway we had a guy – had a tripod, guy had a head wound and I put him on the tripod, medevaced him out, couple other ones needed baskets, pretty much just scrambling and… Interviewer: “Okay, yeah. So how much did your actual medic training help you at this point?” I don’t – at that point I think it had more to with just instinct. You can’t, I don’t think the training even – I mean it was there, but the underlying need was just to be able to react. And the �spontaneity, and I still feel that way a lot, is – sometimes I’m in situations where just, I have to do something and I can’t explain it but.. you know. (19:47) Interviewer: “Okay, so after that first incident do you start to get to know the men in the company a little bit, or not really?” Actually I didn’t get to really know them, I didn’t know – it was more or less just a job at the time, I didn’t have any feelings – I was pretty much numb from the event. Interviewer: “Now were you basically sort of a company-level medic, or you’re—” Yes, I was with Alpha company, it was a company— Interviewer: “So would you normally be with a company command post wherever that went or did you go among the platoons, or?” No, I would be assigned to the company, I came in after Hamburger Hill so most of the units I was with were half the size of a normal platoon, so we – we did get to know each other then, because there was less people to know cause it was a smaller unit, and most of them would tell me their stories of Hamburger Hill and I would do – you know, I talk a lot now but I didn’t talk for probably about six months in Vietnam. I listened. Interviewer: “Alright. So now that you’re there and after that initial incident, what kind of things are you doing over the coming weeks?” Well I did general care for the troops in the field, we’d have rashes, we’d have infections, I’d carried an aid bag, I had … I would experiment… I would use arithromycin or tetracycline or penicillin, whatever didn’t work I’d try it a few days, if that didn’t work we’d try something else. There was all kinds of different unknowns at the time, so it was more trial and error and as a medic I wasn’t trained for that either, but you know I just deciphered, this is the course of action to take in certain cases. [It was] pretty much like I said, instinctual. Interviewer: “Okay, now were you dealing more with kind of tropical disease stuff and—” Yeah, we had I think cellulitis was pretty prevalent, they’d get a bruise on their arm and it would actually develop into the joint where they couldn’t move their joints, it’d swell up and there was like a core in there and you couldn’t – it was painful, they said, but you couldn’t get any progress unless you had antibiotics. And then you had to kinda debride the area that would form, try to debride that and gradually squeeze out the – I mean it’s pretty gross, but anyway I just had to learn to do that and the only way to do that was to follow a certain course [of action] that worked, you just kind of learned those things. �Interviewer: “So I mean did you observe other medics doing that or had you had some—” Yeah, we talked – medics would talk to each other, about experiences with certain things. We’d share information, we stayed in the same quarters as opposed to being with the unit we were with, and then a lot of that was – you know the medics benefitted from their knowledge that they could share and take back, but the troops didn’t really have the kind of relationship they would have with say, other troops that they’re with every day in the field. So it was kind of a different relationship. (23:28) Interviewer: “So how much time were you spending in the field as opposed to on a base camp?” Oh, probably my first six months I was probably in the field, I would say all but maybe a week or two when we’d get a stand-down or something. Interviewer: “Alright, now when you’re out in the field you are right there with the men, I mean you’re close quarters with them.” Yeah, they would see us in and we’d travel in a line, we never worked together – we’d keep separation from having multiple injuries if we were hit by a RPG or some kind of attack, so we’d try to spread out and that would limit the injuries and damage. So you really weren’t right there next to each other like you’d normally be. Interviewer: “And you wouldn’t be casually chatting as you’re walking through the jungle either, and at night if you set up a perimeter or whatever, you’re camping out there, are you again kind of all spread out over that area?” Yeah, mostly in the field we didn’t set up perimeters. We would walk a trail on the high ground usually, then we would get off the trail and set up an ambush from the area below the trail. It was pretty steep, and I learned to find a way to not slide down the hill at night was to put your two feet between a tree and then if your feet would – if you would slide, you would (laughter) you know, wake yourself up. And so there was little tricks you learn, you kind of sleep with one ear open, you learn the difference between an animal movement and a human movement, just – just things from living on the ground in the woods you know, jungle. Interviewer: “Okay. And how were you supplied or supported when you were out there?” Well we normally – we were out maybe, I would say a week at a time, so we normally had enough supplies to get us that far, sometime they’d drop supplies in and we’d stay out, other times they’d pick us up, we’d extract from one area, drop us in another, and – but normally, they would resupply us pretty good actually. �Interviewer: “Okay. So you go, initially you start in the A Shau Valley, that’s the area where the Hamburger Hill fight had taken [place,] were things a lot quieter by the time you got there? Was there much fighting going on?” (26:04) It – it had a certain quietness in the field as opposed to a firebase or anything else because mostly there wasn’t anybody else out there but you and if there was, it wasn’t [like] you were gonna engage something. So you didn’t, you didn’t really think you – it wasn’t like a conventional thing where they’re coming over the hill you know, ‘run for the hills’ or something. Interviewer: “But there, was there much enemy activity at that point?” There was. But it was usually like, they would have like three or four people – they’d never engage us on a massive level, like a regiment or a division or any large numbers – and it was usually like a three or four-man group. They would come in, try to create a little havoc, and then disappear into the jungle. So we were really kind of like troubleshooting, but it wasn’t really like the battles you would think of in a normal war. Interviewer: “Now, were they using booby traps or things like that?” There were booby traps, we learned how to walk without, you know, tripping the wires – we didn’t look for them. Normally too, [Vietnamese soldiers] would not travel the trails usually. We would travel the trails, therefore they knew where to set the booby traps. Interviewer: “Right, okay – cause some units in the 101st stayed off of trails, and they would operate – that was the only way to get through somewhere. But that seems to vary from company to company and commander to commander, but when you were with them using the trails was just standard?” Yeah, we would – we would go on the trails, some of them we’d cut, most of the time we’d cut our own trails. And there was less chance of a booby trap cause there’s no trail. Interviewer: “Right. So when you’re talking about using trails, some of those trails were your trails and not just old ones that were already there?” Yeah. (28:19) Interviewer: “And you said you were with Alpha company for about nine months, it that right?” Well, I would probably say more like about eight months. �Interviewer: “Okay. Now, you’re there, you get there, it’s summer – at least summer over here at that point, kind of July or whatever – now does the season change over the course of that time?” Yeah, it seemed like the monsoons – kind of at that time, kinda kicked in around I would say November-December, and then it would run through probably I would say ‘til February-March. And then we’d try to reenter the area that we were in before the monsoons. Interviewer: “Okay. So when the monsoons come in, you guys clear out and go somewhere else?” Yeah, being air-mobile the only way to survive was to have choppers in and out and that was our biggest problem was the weather cause we had to leave, we couldn’t stay in there without any support – supply support. Interviewer: “Okay, so when you pull out of the A Shau, do you just go back to Evans or you go somewhere else?” Well we went to the lowlands, it was just kinda outside of Evans, we did set up ambushes there, we had – there were people that would come in and – Viet Cong would come in from the mountains, across the lowlands into Phu Bai, they had girlfriends in there and they would resupply them and they’d go back out, so we would set up ambushes and we did have a few ambushes where we found love letters, and things from their visit to Phu Bai, so it was pretty much where your enemy was really all around you. You didn’t know where their support was coming from. Interviewer: “Alright, now would you still be in the field or on firebases in that area or would you spend a lot of time at Evans?” We spent a little time at Evans but really we were pretty much in the lowlands until we got back into the – into the better weather, and then we’d go right back out into the— Interviewer: “Back up into the hills and the mountains, yeah.” The hills, yeah. We’d try to get back into the A Shau again. Into the – got off the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which.. we were in Laos, once. Even though it’s not our record. Interviewer: “Right, okay. So we’re kind of following here, the course of your career. So when do you think you left the A Shau Valley, would that have been November, or October?” (30:54) �Yeah I’m thinking probably November. Because we went to Firebase Rakkasan, I spent Christmas there in ’69, and Bob Hope was supposed to have a show – they couldn’t get us out cause the weather was so bad, so I know that was a pretty good monsoon, starting probably with the clouds and, you know. But I remember in November we would look and the sky would be beautiful, we said ‘it’s not going to rain today’ and four o’clock here come the clouds in, and boom it’d rain. And that was the beginning of the monsoons, cause you know, you get – daytime would be great until about four or five and then after that it was like [rain] all day long. Interviewer: “Alright. So how do you deal with that much rain?” Well we lived on the ground, so it wasn’t easy, we were wet most of the time. Up in the mountains sometimes it was – it felt pretty cold. And we’d use C4, we’d light C4 – you could take it off the back of a claymore mine and we would light that, and it would burn, kinda dry our clothes out a little bit. We used it for cooking and other things too, but yeah it was cold up in the mountains. Interviewer: “Now as a medic did you have supplies that you had to keep dry?” Yeah, I had an aid bag and I usually did have most of them wrapped in plastic, just in case. But being in the mountains wasn’t as bad as probably being down south in the swamps and areas like that, it was just cold, it wasn’t – it was wet [because of] laying on the ground. (32:33) Interviewer: “Alright, now in the time you spent with Alpha company and they were in the field, are there particular events or things you did that kinda stand out in your memory?” When we were in the field, we really didn’t – there really wasn’t much to do, we were pretty much just going day-to-do, and it was just so physical there really wasn’t any opportunity to relax. You sleep when you can, cause during the ambushes at night you’re really not getting very much sleep. So it was pretty much you know, you just think of the next day, think of the step, and just keep on going. Interviewer: “Okay, so how much contact do you think you had with the North Vietnamese?” We’ve had – we had a few firefights, like I said though they were limited, they were like maybe four people at a time. I would say most of what we met were maybe four. And we did have firefights, they would have a search and destroy where they would have a B-52 strike, they would ask us to come in to – to you know, explore the damage and think we did something, and they would be waiting for us. Because, I guess they figured lightning doesn’t strike twice or maybe it’s a psychological… way to, you know for them to fight the war. There was a lot of psychological— �Interviewer: “Of course, and if they observe the Americans had certain patterns, if they’re gonna send people in to investigate after a B-52 they know you’re coming.” Right. Right, and they wanted to demoralize us by thinking, ‘oh, their B-52 strikes don’t faze us a bit,’ so therefore we would go like, ‘what? I don’t want to go search and destroy!’ (laughter) (34:26) Interviewer: “Now when you did that, did you find evidence that the B-52s had been successful?” There were – there was a lot of physical damage, I can’t say that I actually witnessed, or saw a lot of human casualties. Interviewer: “Or were there like wrecked bunker complexes or things like that?” Yeah, we didn’t see much, and it was devastated if there were, it was buried. Interviewer: “Okay, and when you did get out of the field, what did you do?” Well, I didn’t get out of the field ‘til about eight months after I’d been there— Interviewer: “Wouldn’t there be an occasional day when you’d be someplace else?” Oh, we would have – occasionally they’d give us a week to go to Eagle Beach or in-country R&R. And I believe we had two of them that I remember, where we had a week to just blow off steam. Interviewer: “Okay, so would that be in a secure area where you’re not..?” Yeah, it was pretty secure, Eagle Beach, in fact they made us turn in our weapons and so there was no chance somebody else was gonna, you know we weren’t gonna have any problem, and then you know we’d have some drinks, we’d watch a movie, they had a band, you know just things kinda where we could all get together and actually kind of relax a little bit, get away from it. (36:01) Interviewer: “Eventually your assignment changes, so once you kinda complete that time that you spent with Alpha did you have an R&R or what came next?” Yeah, I went on R&R and it was almost eight months into my tour, and I was thinking, well, you know medics normally get out of the field about eight months, and they’ll put ‘em in the rear. So I had waited as long as I could to take my R&R. But anyway I took my R&R, I came back from �Thailand and the – the night I came back I was monitoring the horn they called it, the radio. And we were getting loss of signal from Alpha at my old company in the field, and I was notified that they apparently got attacked and they were hit. The next day a lieutenant – or lieutenant colonel picked me up in a Loach helicopter, which is what most of the upper officers used, and we flew out to the site and I got some information about a few of my buddies that’d got killed, they wanted me to identify a few of them before they took ‘em. The medic that had replaced me was one of the casualties. And so after that I went back to Camp Evans, I wasn’t assigned yet cause Charlie Company was – I was a battalion medic at the time, when I came back, so I was going to go out with Charlie company so I went from Alpha to Charlie after my R&R, so they sent me to Firebase Granite a week later after my unit had gotten into the conflict. And then the night I went out there they got attacked. They broke in – they broke, sappers got into the mortar pit, pretty much pulled the perimeter back behind the mortar crew so the perimeter was infiltrated. They woke me up and said, you know, ‘they’re down there Doc, that’s where they hit.’ Darkest day, night I’ve ever seen. I had a guy on a point up on a hill said, he said ‘go down there in the mortar pit,’ and so I crawled down the mortar pit, I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face, I think I lost my rifle cause I never found it. I crawled down there with my aid bag, found a guy blown into the ammo – the mortar bunker, guy must’ve weighed close to three hundred pounds, I mean I couldn’t get him out, I pulled, I pulled, I could hear him wheezing. I just, I didn’t know what – I just kept thinking I gotta find out if there’s others out there that I can help because I can’t, I can’t stay. This guy looked pretty bad, and so I crawled through the mortar pit and I saw a sapper jump up out of a foxhole about ten feet from me. And he didn’t have any weapons, cause he was a sapper, which – they used dynamite or whatever. And I’ll never forget the look on – he just ran toward the south end and into the woods, and I was there with no weapon, he had no weapon, it was… (39:57) Interviewer: “Well it was still pretty dark, wasn’t it?” It was very dark, I could barely make it out. But I did see the movement, and so I turned to go back through the mortar pit and there was a mortar tube with a decapitated G.I.’s head on the tube. And that, that’s what got me. And that… that was the worst. But this the kind of warfare we were in, it was psychological more than [anything.] Interviewer: “So basically the sappers broke in, they killed some people, and did they blow things up? Did they toss … charges?” They basically just wanted to disrupt the perimeter and then they had an NVA regiment out there, it was – if things worked the way they wanted, [they would] overrun the base. They did shoot rocket-propelled grenades and everything in from the low – it was actually a lower end of the firebase, so it was more susceptible to attack and I was originally up on the upper end with the artillery so I had to come all the way down around there. �Interviewer: “Now were there other American G.I.s in there chasing the enemy out or did you have no idea what anyone else was doing?” Yeah. I did not know, I read other articles of other medics that were on the base at the time, and I think a same medic had already been there earlier when that – the guy in the mortar pit was injured. And he – his description of it was he got blasted into the – he was there before that happened, and he got blasted into the pit, so we probably crossed tracks as medics in the same area. Interviewer: “But basically the enemy, so they broke in but then the regiment didn’t attack?” No. No, apparently we pulled the perimeter back and apparently it was secure, I mean we did get gun support, we did get artillery support from other areas, so they must’ve made a decision that, ‘we’d created enough problems.’ And in their regard, they would rather just disrupt and wound than to really overrun a base cause, you know, they can come back and do it tomorrow. They know where we’re gonna be. (42:35) Interviewer: “Yeah, so you kinda have, you come back from R&R and things are a whole lot different than you thought they were going to be. Now having now joined [Charlie Company,] basically do you stay with them for the rest of the tour or?” Yeah, I stayed with Charlie Company and we had commanding officer Zippo so basically Charlie company was designated as the battalion company, that’s who I was assigned to which was a battalion commander’s company, which is Charlie Company. And so we humped around, I guess I probably humped around for another, I guess another month, another month and a half with Zippo – which he’d been there for three tours, he was more gung-ho than most, and he basically said, you know don’t – we’re still at war. Interviewer: “Now, did he know his job?” Right. Interviewer: “Okay. So he would push you, but he wasn’t doing things that were stupid?” No. And he said in the field, you can do what you want in the field, but when you get back in the rear you’re shaving, you’re gonna look like soldiers you’re gonna act like soldiers. So he had a different philosophy than most of the companies I’d been with, especially Alpha but – totally different approach to fighting, he didn’t care if it was right or wrong he said it’s what we do. He said, ‘what are you gonna do if you see ‘em? You kill them.’ You know? �Interviewer: “Mhm. Alright, now while you were with that company after the attack on Granite, did you get into much by way of firefights or was it still the same kind of patrolling?” (44:20) No, most of the firefights were earlier in my tour, after that we didn’t experience firefights, it seemed like it did change to where it was more attacks on the firebase, it was more – they had really, I think they really sent more troops, more organized regiments than the original fighting where it was more hit-and-run. And that’s when it started getting more where they zeroed in on – they knew where we were, they zeroed in and decided since we had already declared that we were ending the war, that – you know, there was no reason for them to not take advantage of it, and so they attacked – they were more aggressive, they attacked on more of a massive scale. Interviewer: “But if you’re out in the – now in the Ripcord campaign itself, the companies of 2506 and some of the other ones that were sent in to support them as they were patrolling the area right around that firebase, they were getting into more and more trouble at times, and coming under attack. So where was your company operating?” Well basically I think Charlie – I went, I was going to the rear after that, and basically Charlie company from what I understand went to Firebase Bastogne, and they pretty much pulled them out of the area, Charlie company. So the only company left in the 1st Battalion was Delta, at that time. Interviewer: “And they got tossed into Ripcord at the very end, and they had more trouble back in May, as well so that’s their own story, so when did you go from being in the field with Charlie company to being back at Evans?” I would say probably around my birthday, I think I remember, probably around the end of April. Interviewer: “Okay, alright. So now you’re pretty much based at Camp Evans, how was life in Camp Evans different from life in the field?” Well, it was different – it was more, you know, you’d treat people in the rear more than wounded veterans, it was … stuff, just, you know, everyday stuff. Cuts, scrapes, not combat wounds. Interviewer: “But you’re still getting the infections and—” Yeah we’re still at activity, we’d go into the village, give vaccines to people in town, you know, Vietnamese people. We did certain medical things, but it was not really combat-related, more or less. (47:10) �Interviewer: “So these trips into the villages, they’re called MEDCAPS, (Medical Civic Action Programs) is that right?” Yeah. Interviewer: “Alright, so what would happen or how would those work?” Well we would go into the village and they – they coordinated with, I guess the village people, saying ‘we have vaccines for this,’ things that will help your, you know, children and stuff. And so we did have a program where we went in and you know, kind of worked with the citizens of Vietnam. Interviewer: “Would you have an interpreter with you, or?” I’m not sure – I believe some of them spoke English, and it was mostly children so they would direct them to what they needed to do, and I think they pretty much, they all spoke English I think. Interviewer: “And how did the – what kind of relationship was there between these Vietnamese civilians and you guys, I mean how did they treat you or view you?” Well they viewed us as helpful, they thought it was necessary that the Americans are benefitting their life at the time, and they – it wasn’t political, I don’t think there was any reason for them to think that we were their enemy, they didn’t – I didn’t perceive that. Interviewer: “So they were just sort of happy that you were doing that?” Right. They were happy and I was happy too, so— Interviewer: “Yeah, and did you have Vietnamese who worked on the base?” I didn’t work with any per se, but there were ARVNs – Zippo, who I humped with for a couple months, he spoke fluent Vietnamese and he had three tours in Vietnam, so he did understand the language. Interviewer: “Okay, and – now there are certain stereotypes about Vietnam and what went on there that I ask about just to see what you have to say about them, one of them is the assumption that there’s a lot of drug use. I mean, particularly in the base camps, did you see any of that or..?” (49:22) �In the field I didn’t see it, but as time changed in Vietnam I noticed like, when I went there we were more serious about survival, about staying alive, newer troops coming in to Vietnam were more drug-prone because I think they were doing drugs back here before they came over. So there was kind of like a change of people who just didn’t do it, the people who – well, why not? And when you’re seasoned in combat, your whole approach is you need to be aware of everything. And that did not play well in the field at all. I don’t – I don’t know of any heroin or anything, I know there was drugs around from the French – had left these pharmacies, and I was told that even some of the Americans didn’t know what some of these drugs were. And there was some experimentation in the rear on certain drugs, and we did have some casualties from certain drugs, they just didn’t wake up the next morning. So there – I can’t say there wasn’t in the rear, that would be considering Camp Evans, but on firebases and in the field, I didn’t see it with the troops I was with. Interviewer: “Okay, and the other area that comes up a lot is sort of race relations and racial tensions, and again you have stories about gangs of black soldiers together on the bases and all of this kind of stuff, did you see any evidence of—” That kind of changed a little bit too, because when I was first there you didn’t hear as much of this black power thing that was going on with the social change that was going on at home. Some of my best friends over there were African-American, the guy from Hamburger Hill that was from east St. Louis, which was near my house, he’s the one that showed me how to read a map and was teaching me all these things he learned from Hamburger Hill and it didn’t seem like it was – in his frame, he didn’t seem that way. But there was always the underlying feeling that they did feel like maybe they were more powerful together, but as far as me being a medic they didn’t look at me by color, and I didn’t look at them by color. To me it’s, everybody’s blood’s the same. (52:16) Interviewer: “Alright, so now you’re kind of – you were on Camp Evans then in July of 1970, and that’s when the Ripcord campaign itself was coming to a climax, the firebase was under siege and eventually it’s evacuated. But it’s not your unit that’s there, so how much of that were you even aware of while it was going on?” Well, it – in fact, I wasn’t aware too much until I mean, I think it was in July when it all started. And we would get little tidbits of information that’s going on out there, and it seemed like – you know, week after week it seemed to become more horrific. All of a sudden, ‘oh, they had this happen,’ then they had this happen, and then I was like, within a week or so of going home and that’s when I learned that Ranger was killed. And a medic that I knew had gotten killed, and that they used CS gas and every time I’d get information it kinda filtered down, I don’t know who was relaying it but you did have a rumor mill of sorts that everybody seemed to know what was going on. Interviewer: “Now explain who Ranger was.” �Ranger was, he was a commanding officer of Delta, first of the 506, and he’d come out to the field when I was with Zippo and he came out for about a week in the field with us. And they – Zippo was trying to mentor him to know that he was gonna take command somewhere, somehow, at some time. Ranger was very intelligent, he didn’t have the experience that Zippo had from three tours and he didn’t speak Vietnamese as far as I know, but Zippo was trying to mentor him – Zippo also felt that he wasn’t ready to take command and he did question a lot – cause Zippo realized you have to fight back to the superior support or you’re not gonna get it, and if you’re – if you say, ‘oh, they’re not giving me what I want,’ you gotta find a way to get it. He didn’t feel Ranger had the ability or the seasoning, or the relationship to tell the higher ups that this is mandatory, this is not up to you. Interviewer: “Now what about cases where the orders you’re getting bad, if you’re ordered to do something you know is stupid, would Zippo push back with that?” Oh Zippo pushed back, Zippo would do what he wanted to do. And Zippo was kind of like a maverick, he made up his mind a long time ago – he almost had like a sense of, like he hated authority – unless it was him! (laughter) He would talk back to these guys, ‘I’m here, you’re not, I need this support.’ And he ruffled people’s feathers, yeah. Interviewer: “Maybe while he was a captain.” Oh yeah. (55:40) Interviewer: “But you knew him from them, … workman is killed at the end of the Ripcord campaign and all of that and the company gets shot up pretty bad in the process, so there’s little bits and pieces of things that you’re aware of going [on,] and then right after that your tour is up.” Right. So then the long flight home with all these images of Ripcord in my mind, I mean it just played over and over, long flight. The guilt of not – ‘why me, why am I going home and you’re not?’ It all came over me and then you know, twenty-four hours later you’re home eating with your family, after a year living like an animal. Interviewer: “So where did you land in the States, where did you arrive first?” Came in Fort Lewis, Washington. Interviewer: “Okay, and how – what did they do with you once you arrived there, what’s the process?” �I think we processed – they gave us, I think we got uniforms cause the ones we had we, we didn’t have any Class A’s anymore. So we got fitted for uniforms, our boots got resupplied with our gear, and then basically we just flew right home. There was no debriefing, there was no discussion, there was no… Interviewer: “Right, yeah – did you have any trouble with the protestors on the way home or was it quiet?” I didn’t have any that I knew about, I really didn’t know there was much change until I was eating dinner with my family, then I realized that – I kept thinking, ‘they’ve all changed’ but I realize it was me, because my vocabulary shrunk to about twelve words and half of them were obscene, so…. (laughter) Interviewer: “So you had to kind of learn to correct yourself, did you have other ways in which your behavior had changed, or was there stuff you had to readjust [to?]” Yeah, you almost feel like if you say something once, they should respond, or something should happen. But when you say it twice, and three times, and you get no response, then you gotta find another way to communicate. And my communication skills were not – were very limited to say the least. Interviewer: “Now in your case, you’re back and you’re just home on leave, you still have time left on your enlistment?” (58:25) Right. So I went home, I believe I was home for thirty days, I think it was another thirty day leave, and then I went – I was sent back to Fort Sam Houston where I had my individual medic training, and they pretty much saw my record of combat and they perceived me to be – that I should inspire these other men to live up to certain expectations or something. Interviewer: “So what did they have you do?” Well, basically they invented a job for me to be a secretary – cause I knew some typing, I did typing in high school, to type reports, they pretty much fabricated a job for me cause they were trying to be nice, I guess. And make coffee for the first sergeant, and you know. So I pretty much just hung out with the guys at the motor pool cause they were more interesting. Interviewer: “So you didn’t really have a whole lot to do?” No. I just ghosted pretty much, we had to go on a couple bivouacs and then they’re asking me to, you know, ‘show these guys what you do!’ I said this is a joke, I said this is camping, I did this in the Boy Scouts, you know. And so I was just kinda disinterested. �Interviewer: “So you weren’t really going out of your way to impart your knowledge or whatever.” No, I just wanted to stay out of trouble and get out, that’s all. Interviewer: “So how long did you stay there?” It would’ve been about five months, I got out a month early to go on a G.I. bill back to college. Interviewer: “Now did the Army make any effort to get you to stay?” No they really didn’t, they gave me a bunch of fillings in my mouth, that was pretty much all I got (laughter) before I was discharged, you know, after not brushing your teeth and being in the field I had a few cavities, but outside of that they really didn’t pursue trying to keep me in. Interviewer: “So you get out, where do you go to school?” I went to Merrimack Community College, and I – I had a few credits already from before, and so I just tried to resume that. Mainly I just did it to get out early, and then I went on to – got a job at the V.A. working on a psychiatric ward, I worked there for about six years. I was a male ward secretary, the first male ward secretary they had – and we would, you know, work with the nurse and the doctor and a social worker and a psychologist, most of the guys were institutionalized World War 2 guys, and the medical thing had always been to take care of them, rather than try to put ‘em back out in society. Most of the Vietnam vets that came through wouldn’t stay more than a week and they’d say no, they were just resistant to being around seriously mentally ill people, you know. And at the time I’m assuming they didn’t have what – knew what PTSD was. (1:01:59) Interviewer: “Right. So did you have a lot of contact with the patients at that place, or?” Yeah I did, I started a team approach where I would – I put a sheet on the bulletin board in the hall, and I— [Recording cuts out.] Interviewer: “Alright, now you were explaining that you were working as a ward secretary for these medical patients for the V.A., and you were talking about creating teams – so explain that.” Yeah, I created the team approach where I realized a lot these patients hadn’t seen the doctor in like five years, they’d just wander around and you know, have problems. So I put a bulletin up there, it said ‘if you wish to see the team, sign your name’ and Wallace Connors, a patient that had been there for twenty-something years, signed his name on there and the doctor even says, ‘well what does Wallace want?” I don’t know, why don’t you ask him? So Wallace comes in there and the team’s there, the psychologist, social worker, nurse, everybody’s there, and doctor asks Wallace what’s going on, he goes, ‘I just wanted to see if there was still somebody here! I just wanted to know if there is a team.’ Because nobody goes to them, they have to come to you. So it worked out, and I think they still use the team concept at the V.A. in some areas now, cause you’re using all your disciplines in a different manner and even if you can’t cure, you can still help. �Interviewer: “Yeah, well you can find ways to treat people and make their lives better sure, alright. And what kind of conditions did these guys have?” (1:03:47) Well there were some that were lobotomized, one guy had syphilis that had destroyed his brain, he’d never been on an escalator before – we took him to a shopping center and he couldn’t go up the escalator cause he’d never seen one and he was scared to death. Lot of them were schizophrenics, but they had no social contact outside – they would have people visit them and then their condition would worsen. Their family members would come, they’d get worse. So it wasn’t really a – they weren’t working within the community in the bigger spectrum. They were institutionalized, basically, and that was the treatment plan, I guess back years ago. Now it’s totally changed. Interviewer: “Right, now you said you did that for six years, and then what led you to move on from there?” Well, basically it got to be pretty emotionally draining – you go to work and then you’re… same conditions, same person, you don’t see them changing, that’s what they’re gonna be for twenty years, you know. So you don’t really see, and – I didn’t really feel like I was getting the gratification of, ‘I’m helping.’ And so I pretty much just lost interest, plus emotionally like I said it was just – I think if somebody worked in that profession, six months there, move them somewhere for six months and give them a little break, because day after day you get too invested. Interviewer: “So what did you do after that?” Well, I bought a house, got married, had a child – bought a house, and the guy that did my homeowner’s insurance told me, ‘you talk a lot, you might be a good insurance guy’ so I went on to sell insurance for about twenty years, I worked with Farmer’s for ten years, I was with Prudential, Metropolitan, and a brokerage for about five years. And then again I kinda got bored and you know, I just said I just want to physically do a job without having to have, you know the mental responsibilities. I just - you know, lemme work, lemme go home and forget about work. So then I worked for Target for twenty-one years in the stockroom, and the physical work I loved. The physical work helped me mentally, I almost pushed myself to the level of ‘yeah, I like working,’ you know? But it never ends, you still have the mental relationship thing so you know, you never really – I’ve found that you never really get rid of that mental, emotional part. (1:07:00) Interviewer: “Yeah. And have you ever been diagnosed with PTSD or figure you got pieces of it or—” Yeah, I went to the V.A. in 2013 and I saw a psychologist and she was like nine months pregnant and I said, ‘I don’t know but I think I have ADHD, ADD, I don’t know what I got.’ And she asked me, she said, ‘you really don’t care about anybody, do you?’ And I said, ‘right now I don’t care about you!’ (laughter) And she said, ‘there’s nothing wrong with you,’ so I went another two years without doing anything and then I finally realized I do have a problem, my second wife I mean, she told me – she had to live with me, and I probably wouldn’t be here without her, but I did finally get some help. I went into a group program and at that the time I still had never put in a … I put in ten percent for my hearing from when I – I believe I lost it when �Doc Jones was in the trench and a mortar hit, but they denied that. But I went to a class, stress management class and that was helping me learn different ways and I’d be with other guys that had similar problems, and it did help. And I did some meditation, tried to wrap my head around it, and a doctor told me says, ‘you need to visit people that are like you, you need to go to reunions, you need to tell your story.’ And so I’ve been working on that – then I broke my ribs, I fell and broke my ribs and then I was – for six weeks, I couldn’t do anything. Went to the doctor for my normal checkup, they said I had diabetes. Well I had already realized I had Agent Orange but it wasn’t on the list, nothing I had was on the list you know, the itching in my legs, the breaking out in hives, I mean all that Agent Orange stuff wasn’t even on the radar, far as the V.A. So once I got that I said ‘yeah good, I’m gonna file an Agent Orange claim.’ So they gave me ten percent for having diabetes, then they said well – I wasn’t on any medicine, I was trying to control it with diet and exercise, so then gradually I got to where I have to take medicine, so they bumped it up to thirty percent, still hadn’t put in any claim, I was in the group and talking and they said, ‘you haven’t put in for a PTSD?’ I said I feel validated with the Agent Orange! And they said, ‘well you should put in for the PTSD’ and I’m going like, ‘well…’ Everybody’s accepted me, and my family that mean anything, so I just figure, you know I’m just happy to be healthy as I am, so – but then I finally did realize, yeah I have [PTSD.] But I guess my knowledge and being a medic, and working at the V.A. – I guess I’m too proud, I don’t know what it was. But I didn’t feel like I wanted anything from anybody, I just wanted validation, knowledge and you know, a thank-you. (1:10:38) Interviewer: “And maybe a lot of what you can really gain, what they can do for you is what you’re getting out of being with the group. Alright, now on the positive side, do you think you learned anything from being in the service, or influenced you in a positive way?” Yeah, I think I learned that there are more important things than money, there’s more important things than your job, there are more important things in life and it’s not worth sweating the little stuff. And I’ve also gotten to where I’m finally realizing that I don’t – I don’t need to convince myself anymore. I mean, other people can say whatever they want, it doesn’t matter if I don’t feel it. I gotta start feeling, you know? And unless I believe I can - I still have something inside to feel, and I don’t wanna be numb anymore, I wanna express myself and know that I don’t have to defend myself. Interviewer: “Well you a good job of telling your story! And they’re certainly interesting ones, I’d just like to thank you very much for taking the time to share today.” ‘Preciate it. [END] � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FieserL2320V Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fieser, Lawrence Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-07 Title A name given to the resource Fieser, Lawrence (Interview transcript and video), 2019 Description An account of the resource Larry Fieser was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1950. He joined thr Army while studying engineering at Merrimack Community College. After basic training, he trained to become an Army medic and was assigned to accompany an infantry unit. He was then flown to Bien Hoa, Vietnam, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne at Camp Evans, and was deployed to A Shau Valley for combat assault missions. While on a period of Rest and Recovery in Thailand, Fieser’s unit was hit hard by enemy forces, killing a few of his friends, including the medic who replaced him during his absence. For the rest of his tour, Fieser remained with C “Charlie” Company where his interaction with Vietnamese civilians increased. When his tour was over, Fieser was flown into Fort Lewis, Washington, where he was resupplied with new gear and dress uniforms before being sent home. At home, he felt he had to readjust himself completely from the person he had been in Vietnam. People on the homefront were generally hostile towards veterans and the war effort, so he had to censor or reserve aspects of his speech and noted how American civilians were much less communicative than soldiers in the field. When he returned to Fort Sam Houston, Fieser became an unofficial secretary for the NCOs at the base for nearly five months, which he viewed as useless. Ultimately, he was no longer interested in continuing his military service and was soon discharged. From there, Fieser resumed attendance at Merrimack Community College and went to work in the Psychiatric Ward at a VA hospital, improving its efficiency and interaction with patients over his six-year tenure. His work at the VA was emotionally and psychologically draining, so he left, got married, bought a house, and began working as an insurance agent for twenty years with Farmers Insurance. However, he yet again became bored of this mundane work, so he left and began work at Target, enjoying the physical labor and lack of mental stress of working in a department store. Later, Fieser discovered he suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and pursued group therapy and meditation to quell the psychological strain. Reflecting upon his service, Fieser believed the Army taught him that there are more important things in life than material valuables and that he no longer needed to convince himself of validation or acceptance. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States—History, Military Veterans Video recordings World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives, American Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401. Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6bdac0c1959eee110292453c064d0104.jpg 77e8aa18d976e7dc03132b9ff5dc6e4d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_LS00363 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1937-03-11 Title A name given to the resource Fiesole bath Description An account of the resource Black and white lantern slide of Robert Merrill standing at the ruins of the Feisole bath. Subject The topic of the resource Lantern slides Fiesole (Italy) Ruins Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4eb4dfd73869bf0d6ff57b07f22d3405.jpg 98ccc6130dddc678dd91d4e9a83c910c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_FilmPacks_4_002 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1937-03-11 Title A name given to the resource Fiesole Roman Bath Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a Robert H. Merrill standing in front of the Fiesole Roman Bath. Subject The topic of the resource Archaeology Archaeological sites Fiesole (Italy) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/11dde64bc0650c0dccc84f51cf4c53bc.pdf 4e4fbc5bce2bdc0bcfb2ecee91f71bc7 PDF Text Text FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES of GREATER MUSKEGON LEOS. RO EN -P,,..,J,.,11 ,M11,k.·~011 Hott,, of },..,,,ah if'"vrrh,r �Commencing with the fifth annual report, your chairman is inaugurating a plan whereby the front cover of each annual report will be dedicated to a member who has performed outstanding service in behalf of the community. For its first selection, Leo S. Ro en was awarded this honor, because of his untiring efforts and devotion to promote the well being of Jewry. �cA Message from Your Chairman I 1m submittin • th annu,11 r port cf your ye.ir ending August 31, 1915 . nited J wi h h,1ritie for the fisc.d The succes of the 19 I 1- i 5 camp a i g n wherein I 02 people contributed • 19, 3 ,0.00 is .1 testimonial to your generosity. It in<li ate, that the Jewish people of ,reater 1u,kegon have in their he.uts the de. ire to aid an I encourage others, .rnd .1t the Jme time support its own lo ,11 in,titutions and programs to an c, r inc.reasing e. tent. Y u will n tc in the report that your Trustee allo ,1te<l .. 760.00 to the Mu'>kegon 80.1r<l of Jewish EdU(,1tion, which sum represent.. one-third of the cost of sending 62 children to un<l.1y 'cho I during the fast ye.u. This is on of the sounde t im c tments our community can m,1k . The first di, idend wa · recei, ed when we ,, itnes'e I the confirm.1tion e. ·crcises l.1 "t June. During the past year the fona View Jewish Cemetery Asso iation purchased 151 I ts for 11.800.00 from the it) of foskegon Hei •ht . Perpetll.ll care is gu.ir.rntc d e,Kh lot. Four thousand dollars w.t-; paid upon the exe~uti n of the contract, and th b.1lance is payable ,vithin four ye.us. The U.J.C. lo.med the l,000.00 to the As,oci:ition with the understanding that additional funds will he m,1de a, ail.1blc to meet the term. of the contract and that ,ls lot are sol<l, the sums loaned will he rcp,1id to nite<l Jewish 'harities. hore tlut you will t,1ke time to ,tudy thi rep rt ::o that you may be fully prepared to ,oice your opinion ,lt the ne. ·t n~ceting, at \,hich time new offiler and tru tees \\ ill be electe<l for the en,uing year. inlc:rel}' }'Ours, PA L 1. ~ 1 IE ER. Clhun11,111 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES SUMMARY REPORT OF CASH AND PLEDGES 1944 - 1945 Schedule A Amount pledged l 9-+-~· 19-i5 .. ........... .............. .. .............. ................. C1shonhand ept. l, 19::ii.. .. . .......................... 1,619.16 ollected on 19·11·1914 pledges.. . ............... ... .......... 145.00 TOTAL -········-····· ---------------- 19,360.00 l ,76.:.iA6 -·-··········---· Pledges ouhtanJing, chedule A2 ... ......... ................ 130.00 Monies .11located and paid Ii-led on chedule A 1............ 18,839.·17 Gt: I' RAL EXP1:N515 Occidental dinners .............. . ................................................ Printing expense ................... . 159.90 1-!3.52 18,969. 7 303.42 Cash on hand and in b.rnk Aug. 31, 19'15 ......................... . 1851.5 7 TOTAL ............................................................. . 21,124-.-46 Schedule A2 PLEDGE PAID ON ACCOU T Pledged Louis Lger ....... . am Lawson .. _... . PLEDGED A D tankr Baru ........ ....... ... . Jake Goldberg ...................... . Paid Due 25.00 25.00 10.00 10.00 15 .00 15.00 , 50.00 S 20.00 1,0.00 OT PAID .. ················ 50.00 50.00 100.00 Balance due on pledges as listed ahove .................................... . 130.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES ALLOCATIONS 1944 - 1945 Schedule Al Am erican Fund for Palestinian Insts . .... .. ........ .. . .... ..... . .... 100.00 Jewish Telegraphic Agency ....... . 100.UO American Jewic;h Conference...... 50 .00 Jewish Theological Seminary of Ainerica ................................... . 200.00 American Jewish Congress. 2 5.00 Joint Defense Appeal .•............... 400 .00 Belfaire Orphan Hom e......... 25 .00 Levi Memorial Hospital ............ l 00 .00 B'nai J::frith- Wider Scope . 350 .00 local Civic Prntector Work ....... . 22l.3S MH. Aaron Cohen, sal.uy settlement .............. ················- . ...... 1,000.00 Counc il of ]<:wish Welfare and Federa tion Funds ....... ........ .... 120.00 Donations- Tr:ms ients . ... .. ... .. 3R.OO Ex.p;.1tients Home of Denvl'r...... 35 .00 G:ft · -Men in Service ......... 112.62 Hadassah Hospital ..... _....... 1,000.00 IIehrew Theol ogical College of Chicago ............................. ...... 100.00 }khrcw Univ:: rsity, Jerusalem .... 250 .00 l-f ias .. ....... .. . .......................••.. 100.00 Histadrut Ivrit ......... . 3 7 .50 Hist1drut of Palestine 100.00 Incurable Jews ......................... . 100.00 Jewish Welfare Board ................ . 14 5.00 Jewish Consumptive Rdief O· ciet}' ......................................... . 200.00 J ewish Braille Institute ·••······-··· 35 .00 Jewish Institute of Religion ....... . 250.00 Mona View Jewish Cemetery As. sociation .................................... 2,000.0 0 Michigan Hillel Bldg. Fund ....... . 50.00 Nat'I farm School 60.00 Nat'l Jewish Children' s Home.... 50.00 Nat'I Jewish Hospital of Denver 125.00 Ra 11bi ls:iac Elehanan Yeshivah .. 150.00 Society for Relief of Yemenite Jew, ...................................... . 35.00 SunJ:l}' School Fund ................... . 760 00 ons of Israel Matzo Fund ....... . 100.00 Technological School pf Haifa ... . 7 ~.00 The Protestant .......................... . 100 .00 United Jewish Appeal... ............... 10,000.00 Uoite<l Jewish Laym.rn 's Com• mittee ........................................ 75.00 U.S .O ., Battle Creek ................... . 50 .00 Va:id Leumi 35 .00 TOTAL .................... ...........$18,8 39..l~ �PAID-UP CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS = Pledged Pledged Louis Aron 150.00 Morris Friend ..................... . 200.00 Tony Aron ................... l 'i0.00 Dr. M . 1. Friedenberg . ...... 100.00 Abe A ·hendorf ............ ...... 500.00 amuel Ashendorf ... ........... '\00.00 M. J. Goldberg ( pring Lake) ................ 100.00 Jake Baum .. ...................... 50.00 Al. Golden .......................... 50.00 Harry H. Berman .............. I 00.00 Maunce W. Golden.............. 200.00 Phil. Granik .... l 00.00 Ruben Berm.in ............. . . l 00.00 . Berman ........ ... .... 350.00 Louis M. Berman... .... ....... 200.00 Mrs. Rose Berman .............. I 00.00 Morris Be peloff .. . ............... 2 5. 00 Herman Br,l\·erman ............ 50 .00 athan M . Broutman ....... . 75 .00 igmund Cahn ................... . 25.00 Robert Cherin ..................... . 300.00 Harry Dr. ol Cohan ................... . 75 .00 L. Darm tadter .................... 50.00 Andrew Ep. tein .................. 150.00 .un Esses . ......................... 5.00 Harry Field .......................... 50.00 Bernard Fisher .................... I 00.00 Harry A. Fisher .................. 500.00 Jerome Fisher ...................... 100.00 Al. Frank .. 300.00 .. .................. Hyman Friedman ... . .. .... 25.00 Grossman' Dept. tore ... . '>00.00 Harold Grossman .. ...... ..... 250.00 Herman Grossman ........ ..... 325.00 Mrs. adie Grossman .......... 400.00 amuel Gro man ................ 25.00 Da,·id Gudelsky 1 50.00 Koma Gudel ky 25 .00 0-,car Gudelsky 50.00 L V. Heller (Milwaukee) 10.00 Mrs. Tillie Jacobs ........... . 10.00 Morris Kantor .................... . 100.00 J. M. Kaufman .... ........ . 600.00 Dr. Marie Keilen ............... . 25.00 amuel Klayf ................... . 150.00 Mrs. Sara Klein ................. . 150.00 Harold Kline 25 .00 Re\. Klitzner 10.0() Ahe Kallenberg (Grand Rapids) ........... . 100.00 �PAID-UP CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS = t PleJged Pledged Ben Komis ........... .. ....... . Ale · Krause 25.00 Robert Rosenberg ...... . 250.00 Paul J. chlossman (non •member) ....... . . ............. . 25 .00 Jack Lawson ........ ........... 200.00 Jesse Levin ................... . 10.00 Reuben Levy ........ ............ . 50.00 Hyman Lipman ................. . 500.00 amucl Lipman ................... . 500 .00 Harry Lahr .. Charle Locke ............ . 25 .00 Herman Mendelson .......... . 25.00 J. W . Metz .................... . '50.00 Joe Miller (Hart) ..... . 15 .00 Joe Ted ,1m adel ......... . eumer ... Orlikoff . ...................... Pontiac Frocks, Inc. ........ . 25 .00 250 .00 l 50.00 15 .00 Ma.x 50.00 1,000.00 chubb .................. __ . 50.00 Abe hmookler . ............ . 600.00 Max humaker ................. . 100.00 iegel .................. . 200.00 ilverman ................. . 600 .00 h erman ..................... . 150.00 amuel H . A. ol. 1 Ed. 1mcoe ............ . 100.00 Jo 1mon ....... . 100.00 Jacob Joe am . Ely inger ....................... . I 5.00 inger (Hart) ........... . l 00 .00 J. 1nger ..................... . 50.00 mith .............. ......... ... 100.00 h rles mith ... ................. 1 00.00 tein ................ . 100.00 teindler ... .. ............ 250.00 2 0 .00 Fred W am Price .. .... ........... ....... 250.00 Milton I adore Rodtn ... .......... ... .. 50.00 William tern ...................... 200 .00 FreJ Rodoff .. ............ .. .... 25.00 Joe . trifling ........ ........ .... 750 .00 L<.:o Ro ·e ............................. . 50.00 1. Tele Harold Rosen ............... . 300.00 Walters Leo . Ro en . . . ............. .... 1'50.00 Josiah Wiener .. ... am D. Ro en ha um . . ... . . 125 .00 Paul M. Wiener .. fax Ro ·enberg ................ . 350.00 Morton L. athan Price .. 20.00 Breecher ~ olf e 200.00 500.00 2,000 .00 22 5.00 �ARMED SER VICES ~ - H01VOR ROLL *** lr\'ing Achtenherg G. B. DeJong Harrr Ashcndorf Frank Disken I. A hendorf Eugene Fisher J. AshenJorf Max Ashendorf orman Fleishman Ardo M. Friend Ahc Bernun H.urison (Buddy) Friend Jack Berman Max 0. Berman Marcus Bess Phil Best Stanford Broutman Lawrence Gluck Dave Goldberg Herman Grossman Louis H. Grossman Lewis eymour Crnc Alfred Caplan Jerome Cherin Ben Cohen . Grossman Hilliard Gude! ky Justin Gudel ky Leon Gudclsky Eugene Hirsch George Hirsch o~cir Daniels IIe:-iry Darmstadter Le,; lie Davis Irving Hirsch am Jacobs Morton J.1cobs �ARMED SERVICES IIOIVOR ROLL *** Herman Kessler Douglas Rosen Lawrence Klein ·cymour Rosenherg Ben Klitzner ChJS. Rubinsky Arthur Kopoloff Louis Rubinsky E. H. Krause DJviJ Krupp Marvin .ifler Morris Levine Sam chumacher RaeJellc Irving E. Volf Liebo\'itz Harry Jack Lipman Hy. Singer iherman inger Irving Singer Phillip Miller Jay L. 'inger James Mintz Maryin kolkin Dan M. Moore N. H. Skolkin Irving 'tcin R. M. Orlikoff Robert Stein Al Parker SyJ. Polly Lewis Jack Leonard Price , .1than Talbot * Jerome Stern - teindler Killed in Action �PAUL J. SCHLOSSMAN Afo,k,:xon '1 011wa11d,ng Ph,lanthropirt A generous giver to all causes without regard to race, creed or color. His daily acts are an inspiration to all who work for the cause of humanity. �1Jn fflcmoriam AM EL A HE D RF 1880 - 1945 M RRI 1 877 We mourn the pa ing of our b lov d fnt'nd · and nt'1ghbor ; th irs were truly Jewi h hearts. BE PALOFF - 1945 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_Fifth_Annual_Report_1944 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource B'nai Israel Temple Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1944 Title A name given to the resource Fifth Annual Report Description An account of the resource Annual report that includes Includes a note by the chairman, and information on the money obtained by the temple, both the people who donated money and how the temple spent the money, an Armed Services Honor Roll and the names of recently deceased congregration members. Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Annual reports Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b52a924a76cd2719fb8905b37a636d33.pdf 1e2fa803101192e12c816ba5a779fa9a PDF Text Text FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES of GREATER MUSKEGON 1944- 1945 LEOS. ROSEN cp,esident M uskegon H ouse of Jewish Worship �UNITED Ameri can Fund for Pal estinian Insts . ......................................... . American J ewi sh Conference ..... . American J ewi sh Congress ......... . Belfaire Orph an H ome............... . C o mm en ci ng with the fifth annu al report, your ch airma n is in augura tin g a pl a n whereb y the fro nt cover o f eac h annua l repo rt will b e d ed icated to a m ember who h as pe rfo rm ed o utsta ndin g se rvi ce in b e h alf of the community. For its first se lectio n, Leo S. R ose n w as awarded this h onor, because o f his u ntiri ng effo rts a nd d evotio n to promo te the well being of Jewry. B'nai B"rith- Wider Scope ....... . Mrs. AJron Cohen, sa lary settl e• ment ··········································s Council of J ewi sh W elfare and Federati on Funds ................... . D onations- TrJn sien ts ............... . Ex.pati ents H ome of D enver.. ... . G :fts- Men in Service ................. . H adassah Hospital ....................... . H ebrew Theologica l Coll ege of Chi cago ................................... . H eb rew University, J eru sa lem ... . Hias ............................................. . H istadrut Jvrit .......................... .. Histadrut of Palestin e ............ ... . Incurabl e Jews ... ............. . Jewish W elfare Board ................. . Jewi sh Consumpti ve Relief So• ciety ......................... . J ewish Braille Institute ............... . J ewi sh Institute of Religi on ....... . �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES ALLOCATIONS 1944 - 194 5 ..., Schedule Al ,/ Jewish Tel egraphi c Agency ....... . 100.00 " American Jewish Conference...... 50.00 v Jewish Theo logical Seminary of America ................................... . 200 .oo v American Jewish Congress.......... 2 5.00 "' Joint D efense AppeaL. ............... . 400.00 V Belfaire Orphan H orne................ 25.00 "' Levi Memoria l H osp ital ............. . 100.00 V B'nai B'rith- Wid er Scope ........ 3 50.oo ✓ Local Civic Protector W ork....... . 221.35 ✓ Am erican Fund for Pa lestini an Jn '.;tS. .......................................... 100.00 Mona View Jewish Cemetery As· sociation ... ................................. 2,000.00 '-' Mrs. Aaron Cohen, sa lary settle• rnent ............. ............................. $ 1,000.00 ✓ Council of Jewish W elfare and Federa tion Funds ................... . 120.00 ✓ D onati ons-Transien ts ............... . 38.00 I Ex.pati ents H orne of D enver.. .. . 35 .00 v G:fts- Men in Service.................. 11 2.62 I I-lada ssa h Hospital ........................ 1,000.oo v H ebrew Theologica l College of Chicago ............................. . 100.00 ¥ H ebrew University, Jerusa lem ... . 250 .00 ,I Hias ............................................. . 100.00 v Hi s tad rut I vri t ........................... . 37 .50 V 1-listadrut of Palesti ne ............... . 100.00 ,/ Incurable Jews ........................... . 100.00 ...,.. Jewish Welfare Board ................. . 'Mt.: Jewish Consumptive Reli ef So• ciety ......................................... . 200.00 v J ewish Braille In st itute................ 35.00 V Jewish In stitute of Religion........ 250.00 V ~£ ' Michigan Hillel Bldg. Fund ....... . 50.00 Nafl Farm School ................... ... 60.00 " Nat' l Jewish Children's H orne ... . 50.00 V v Nat'! Jewish Hosp ital of D enver 125.00 Ra'.:ibi Isaac Elehanan Yeshivah .. 150.00 / V Society for Relief of Y emenite J ews ....................................... . 35.00 Sunday School Fund ................... . 760.00 "' Sons of Israe l- Matzo Fund .... . 100.00 v Technological School of H aifa ... . 75.00 r Th e Pro '.estant ........................... . 100.00 , United Jewi sh Appeal... ............... ' 10,000.00 v United Jewi sh Layman's Corn• mittee ....................................... . 75.00 ' U.S.O., Battle Creek ................... . 50.00 V V aad Leumi 35.00 ✓ TOTAL .............................. $ 18,839.47 j a ~ i,_/-v �PAID-UP CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS = ' · Pledged I Morris Friend ...................... 200.00 J• Dr. M. L. Friedenberg ....... . 100.00 J. Goldberg (Spring Lake) ............... . 100.00 Al. Golden .......................... S0.00 Maurice W. Golden .............. 200.00 Phil. Granik ....................... . 100.00 Grossman's Dept. Store ..... . 500.00 Harold Grossman 250.00 Herman Grossman ............. . 325.00 Mrs . Sadie Grossman .......... 400.00 Samuel Grossman ............... . 25.00 Pledged ~ Louis Aron ................... .......$ 1 S0.00 Tony Aron ......................... . 1S0.00 ' Abe Ashendorf ...... .............. S00.00 Samuel Ashendorf ............... . J Jake Baum .................. ........ H arry H . Berman ............... . 1 Ruben Berman ................... . Harry S. Berman ...... ............ ' Louis M . Berman ................. . v "- Mrs. Rose Berman --··· ········- Morris Bespeloff ................. . ' Herman Braverman ........... . Nathan M. Broutman ....... . '--., '-., Sigmund Cahn ................... . Robert Cherin ..................... . Dr. Sol Cohan .................... .. 500.00 S0.00 100.00 100.00 350.00 200.00 100.00 25 .00 50.00 75. 00 25. 00 300.00 75.00 L. Darmstadter ................... . 50. 00 Andrew Epstein ................. . 150.00 Sam Esses ............ ................ 5.00 Harry Field ......................... . 50.00 Bernard Fisher .. ............. ..... 100.00 Harry A. Fisher .......... .... .... 500.00 Jerome Fisher ..................... . 100.00 "-I AI. Frank ........................... . 300.00 " ' PAID-UP CC Hyman Friedman 25.00 ' M. David Gudelsky 150.00 Koma Gudelsky 2S.00 Oscar Gudelsky 50.00 L. V. H eller (Milwaukee ) .. 10.00 Mrs. Tillie Jacobs ................ 10.00 Morris Kantor .... ................. . 100.00 J. M . Kaufman ......... ....... .. 600.00 Dr. M arie Keilen ............... . 25.00 Samuel Klayf ..................... . 150.00 Mrs. Sara Klein ................. . 150.00 H arold Kline 25.00 Rev. Klitzner 10.00 Abe Kollenberg (Grand Rapid s) p Ben Komiss ......................... . Alex. Krause ....................... . Harry Lahr ......................... . Jack Lawson ....................... . Jesse Levin .......................... Reuben Levy ....................... . Hyman Lipman ................. . Samuel Lipman .................... Charles Locke ..................... . Herman Mendelson ........... . J. W . Metz ................... ...... . Joe Miller (Hart) ............. . Joe N adel ........................... . Ted Neumer ....................... . Sam Orlikoff ....................... . Pontiac Frocks, Inc. ........... . Nathan Price ....................... . Sam Pri ce ........................... . Isadore Rodin ..................... . Fred Rodoff ... .................... . Leo Rose ................... .......... . i Harold Rosen ................. .... . Leo S. Rosen ............. ...... .... . Sam D. Rosenbaum ........... . 100.00 Max Rosenberg .... ............... . - [i �-- ~s PAID-UP CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS = Pledged 200.00 100.00 l 100.00 50.00 200.00 100.00 500.00 250.00 325.00 400 .00 25.00 150.00 25. 00 50. 00 :e) .. 10.00 Ben Komiss .......................... 25.00 Alex. Krause ........................ 250.00 Harry Lahr .......................... 25.00 Jack Lawson ........................ 200.00 Jesse Levin .......................... 10.00 Reuben Levy ........................ 50.00 Hyman Lipman .................. 500.00 Samuel Lipman .................... 500.00 Charles Locke ...................... 25.00 Herman Mendelson ............ 25.00 J. W. Metz .......................... 50.00 Joe Miller (Hart) .............. 15 .00 Joe Nadel ............................ 25.00 Ted Neumer ........................ 250.00 Sam Orlikoff ........................ 600.00 25.00 150.00 150.00 25.00 10.00 100.00 3l .... I ft Robert Rosenberg ................ 50.00 Paul J. Schlossman (non.member) ....... .t.. ...... 1,000.00 Max Schubb ........................ 50.00 Abe Shmookler .................... 600.00 Max Shumaker .................... 100.00 Samuel Siegel ...................... 200.00 H. A . Silverman .................. 600.00 Sol. Silverman ...................... 150.00 Ed. Simcoe .......................... 100.00 Joe Simon ............................ 100.00 Jacob Singer ........................ 15.00 Joe Singer (Hart) .............. 100.00 Sam. J. Singer ...................... 50.00 150.00 Ely Smith ............................ 100.00 Pontiac Frocks, Inc. ........... . 15.00 Charles Smith ...................... 100.00 Nathan Price ........................ 250.00 Fred W. Stein ............. ...... 100.00 Sam Price ............................ 250.00 Milton Steindler .................. 25 0.00 Isadore Rodin ...................... 50.00 William Stern ...................... 200.00 Fred Rodoff ................... ..... 25. 00 Joe S. Strifling ...................... 75 0.00 Leo Rose .............................. 50.00 M. Teles ......................... .... 20.00 Harold Rosen ...................... 300.00 Walters & Breecher........... ... 200.00 Leo S. Rosen .................. ... ... 450 .00 Josiah Wiener .. .................. 500.00 Sam D . Rosenbaum .......... .. 125.00 Paul M . Wiener .................. 2,000.00 Max Rosenberg .................... 350.00 Morton L. Wolfe ................ 10.00 100.00 Pledged Pledged / 225 .00 ~ �ARM] ARMED SERVICES HONOR ROLL R *** Irving Achtenberg G . B. D eJong H erman K ess ler H arry Ashendorf Frank Disken Lawrence Klein I. Ashendorf Eugene Fi sher Ben Klitzner J . Ashendorf M ax Ashendorf Abe Berman Jack Berman M ax O . Berman Marcus Bess Phil Best Stanford Broutman Arthur Kopoloff Norman Fleishman E. H. Krause Ardo M . Fri end D avid Krupp H arrison (Bud dy) Fri end Lawrence Gluck D ave Goldberg H errnan Grossman Louis H . Grossman Alfred Caplan Jcrome Raedell e S. . Levy Volf Li ebovitz Jack Lipman Lewis S. Grossman Hilliard Gudelsky Seymour Cane Morris Levine Justin Gudelsky Leon Gudelsky Phillip Mill er James Mintz Dan M . Moore Cherin Ben Cohen Eugene Hirsch R. M . Orlikoff George Hirsch Osca r Dani els Irving Hirsch A l Parker H enry D armstadter Sam Jacobs Syd . Polly Leslie Davi s Morton Jacobs Leon ard Price * Jero m �, ~ -%% ~ , ARMED SERVICES ~ ::::~ - ~ HONOR ROLL *** H erman Kess ler Doug las Rosen Lawrence Klein Seymour Rosenberg Ben Klitzner Chas. Rubinsky Arthur Kopoloff Louis Rubinsky E. H . Krause D av id Krupp Marvin Saffer Friend Morri s Levine Sam Schumacher Raedelle S .. Levy Irving E. Silverman Volf Li ebovitz H arry Singer Jack Lipman H y. Singer Irving Singer Phillip Miller Jay L. Singer James Mintz M arvi n Skolkin D an M . Moore N . H . Skolkin Irving Stein R. M . Orlikoff Robert Stein Al Parker Syd. Poll y Lew is Jack Steindler Leonard Price Nathan T albot * Jerome Stern - Killed in Action , ~ ::::~ ~ �1'n SAMUEL ASHENDC 1880 - 1945 We m ourr friends PAUL J. SCHLOSSMAN M uskegon's Outstandin g Phila nthropid A generous giver to all causes without regard to race, creed or color. His daily acts are an inspiration to all who work for the cause of humanity. �1ln fflemoriam SAMUEL ASHENDORF MORRIS BESPALOFF r88o - r945 r877 - r945 We m o urn the passing of our beloved fri e nds a nd neighbors; theirs were truly Jewish h earts. �OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES 1944 - 1945 Officers PAUL M . WIENER, Chairman H. A. SILVERMAN, Vice -Chairman SAMUEL LIPMAN, T reamrer M . L. WOLFE, Secretary Trustees Advisory Coniniittee Abe Ashendorf L. M. Berman M. W. Golden H . A. Fisher J . M . Kaufm an Jack Lawson Leo S. Rosen Max Rosenberg S. G . Klayf J. S. Strifling P RESS OF MUSK EGON P RINT SHOP - � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_BI-UJCGM-AR_1944-1945 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1944/1945 Title A name given to the resource Fifth Annual Report: United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon Description An account of the resource Fifth Annual Report: United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, 1944-1945. Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives