1036 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d3957a97440a01f7ed8fcad325076a2c.mp3 7e0b7afe40231e326ccfeb169336ab73 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 Richard A. Rhem Collection Description An account of the resource Text and sound recordings of the sermons, prayers, services, and articles of Richard Rhem, pastor emeritus of Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan, where he served for 37 years. Starting in the mid 1980's, Rhem began to question some of the traditional Christian dogma that he had been espousing from the pulpit. That questioning was a first step in a long and interesting spiritual journey, one that he openly shared with his congregation. His journey is important, in part because it is reflective of the questioning, the yearnings, and the gradual revision of beliefs that many persons in this part of the century have experienced and continue to experience. It is important also because of the affirming and inclusive way his questioning was done and his thinking evolved. His sermons and other written and spoken materials together document the steps in his journey as it took a turn in 1985, yet continued to revolve around the framework and liturgies of the Christian calendar. Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Religion Interfaith worship Sermons Sound Recordings Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rhem, Richard A. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/514">Richard A. Rhem papers (KII-01)</a> 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 Kaufman Interfaith Institute Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KII-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 1981-2014 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 text/pdf Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Event Pentecost Scripture Text Exodus 3:2, Acts 2:17 Location The location of the interview Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI 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 KII-01_RA-0-19850526 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985-05-26 Title A name given to the resource Visions and Dreams: Reaching Toward Century Twenty-One Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Richard A. Rhem 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 Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Sermons Relation A related resource Richard A. Rhem - An Archive of Sermons, Prayers, Talks and Stories: http://richardrhem.org/ Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Description An account of the resource A sermon given by Richard A. Rhem (Dick) on May 26, 1985 entitled "Visions and Dreams: Reaching Toward Century Twenty-One", on the occasion of Pentecost, at Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI. Scripture references: Exodus 3:2, Acts 2:17. 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/c1efe82d36b9ffd69eff6268176282c7.pdf 3a68089e728e38d2f8d05079aa7f2a7f PDF Text Text '!'lit.: WAStuNtil'UN POST By Thomas O'Toolc Soon after Dutch resistance fighter Teengs Gerritsen was put in the concentration camp at Natzweil~r by the Gestapo in 1943, he fell ill with pneumonia and was placed in a hospital with five members of the French Maquis who had just been caught by the SS. "One of them was already dead and two of the others had bullets in their lungs but they began to softly sing the 'Marseillaise' together," Gerritsen recalled recently at Washington's Army and Navy Club. "When the Gestapo guards heard them, they filled hypodermic needles with gasoline and injected and murdered · each one of the Frenchmen on the spot. I never got the injection and to' this day I don't know why. I would have liked to have met that Gestapo fellow after the war and ask him why he didn't inject me." Another time, Gerritsen said he hid himself in a toolshed when the concentration camp commandant ordered the prisoners to appear at roll call on Christmas Day. Gerritsen remembers that the commandant was drunk and picked out six prisoners to be hanged that night. "One of them was the man standing in my place," Gerritsen said. "They never noticed that I was missing and that is why I am alive today." Gerritsen, a legend in The Netherlands because of such stories, came to the United States to help. celebrate the 200th anniversary of Dutch-American friendship and to honor the members of the Dutch resistance and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services who lost their lives in Holland during World War II. Gerritsen wasn't the only Dutch resistance fighter to make the trip. Men with names like van den Heuvel, Hofmeester, Hergarden, Zeegers, ( Peijnenburg and van Lamichot also came and told their storiei1. Among the many listeners were Prince Bernhard, Dutch Amhasi1ador J.H. Lubbers and Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Casey, who had been liaison chief between the OSS in London and the Dutch resistance during the war. Dutch resistance was stronger than most of the rest of occupied Europe. Three inonths after the war began, Queen Wilhelmina, from exile in London, ordered the Dutch to resist. More than · 10,000 Dutch resistance fighters were captured and killed by the Germans, fully half the Dutch resistance force. Gerritsen was caught in a scene that could have come right out of the movie "Casablanca." Two men wearing black leather overcoats showed up one day at his office in the Ministry of Import and Export, showed him their papers and took him off to prison. "Most of my friends were already there when I was brought into the prison," Ger~ ritsen said. "We had a traitor in our ranks. I suppose you can't avoid it." But one Dutchman who managed to avoid the Gestapo all through the war was Cees (pronounced Case) van den Heuvel, who was the intelligence chief for the Dutch resistance during the war. While Gerritsen worked in The Hague until he was caught, van den Heuvel did his job in Rotter• dam. "Rotterdam was the best place to be in Holland during the war because it was the most chaotic," van den Heuvel said. "The Hague was a company town like Washington where everybody was recognizable and Amsterdam was overrun with Gestapo because that's where they thought all the Dutch spies would be." Van den Heuvel escaped capture by changing his identity and disguis- ~" 1n.:-n ,, A 1 Thumlav, Oeleler 28, l98Z Visions of the ~ars of Danger Dutch Resistance Members Recall the Nightmare , ing himself. Only 25 when the war · Channel to Great Britain. "We soon discovered we couldn't began, van den Heuvel said he managed to look 40 by never being clean- start the boat's engine without its shaven, wearing old people's clothes distributor," van den Heuvel said. and his hair a little long, and walk- ''The 10 sailors who'd left the boat to ing stooped, with his coat collar up. go to lunch on shore had taken it "Nature helped me, too," he said. with them." To this day, van den Heuvel "I never had too much to eat and if you look thin you look older." thinks he's alive because the tied-up His job was estimating German sentry told his comrades he'd been military strength and movement in attacked by a squad of British comHolland. He had 600 agents scat- mandos. At least, that was the story tered across the country, watching that circulated through Rotterdam the roads and the railways. The all the next day. agents checked the repair shops Like van den Heuvel, Gerritsen where the Germans took their tanks had some good fortune. Captain of and trucks when they broke down. the Dutch ice hockey team before Among the agents were young the war, Gerritsen took his entire women who took advantage of Ger- team with him into the resistance. man soldiers drinking in the pubs. He decided to go to work for the Van den Heuvel discovered that Ministry of Import and Export, as any time a German soldier died, he . he put it, because there had to be a was buried in a local Dutch lot of good information there. Said graveyard with his rank, company, Gerritsen: "Only Germans came in battalion, regiment and army group and only Dutch goods went out. The marked ·on his cross. Into the Germans were so organized they put graveyards at night went van den lists out through the ministry of exHeuvel's agents, for fresh intelli- actly how many troops, how many gence on German troop movements. tanks and how much petrol they "That stopped when one of our brought into the country." couriers was arrested and his How did Gerritsen get that inforgraveyard report confiscated," van mation? He asked the director to den Heuvel said. "The next day, all give it to him. Gerritsen said the dithe German crosses were gone from rector told him: "Every Friday, I will the graveyards." leave the papers in my desk drawer, Van den Heuvel had his share of give you the key to my office and close calls. Once, he and four other drawer before I leave and you may resistance fighters stormed aboard a .come in and copy what you wish." German "schnell" boat at the enGerritsen and his hockey players trance to Rotterdam harbor, killed used to meet every Friday in a hotel one of the sentries left on board and bar across the street from what is tied up the other before preparing to now Holland's Disneyland. Charlie, run the boat across the English the barman, would see to it that the From left: Kees van den Heuvel, Teengs Gerritsen, Gerard Peijnenburg " 1 · & William Casey; by Lucian Perkins-The Washington Post , 1· bar would close down for an hour every Friday evening between 6 and 7 o'clpck. German officers frequented the bar but Gerritsen said that was an advantage. "It was good cover," he recalled. "The Gestapo would never check out a bar that German field officers drank in." It all ended when Gerritsen was arrested in May 1942 and locked up for five months in a tiger cage by himself. Twice transferred to Dutch prisons, he was finally sent the next year to the concentration camp at Natzweiler, which had the reputation of being the worst camp in occupied Europe. Gerritsen said that when he got there, 150 people a day were being murdered by the Gestapo guards. 1He was almost in tears as he told the story. "You have no idea, you have no idea of how they killed people there," he said. "People were being shot and hanged and killed by dogs. If you've ever seen a man with his hands and legs tied together and being killed by dQgs, it's the most horrible sight you can see." When the war ended, Gerritsen .· and van den Heuvel went to work for the Dutch Federal Bureau of'Investigation hunting down Dutchmen who collaborated with the Nazis and :1 Germans who served in Holland with the Gestapo. Gerritsen was· . questioning one former S.S. officer ·. . in a Dutch prison when he was told ' Hanns Rauter, the one-time German general who had been S.S. chief. in Holland during the war and who ..yas in the same prison, wanted to see him. . Rauter had saved Gerritsen's ~ife when he was first taken prisoner because Rauter had played in the 1936 Olympic Games for Germany and had met Gerritsen in Berlin where ' the games were played that year. . "He was a fearful bastard, 6-foot,6 and murderous," Gerritsen recalled. "Do you know what he said to me? He said, 'I'll tell you, Gerritsen, the only way to stop Germany · is ·to shoot us and disarm us for the rest of time. Germany will one day try to . win a war, they want someday to ·win , a war. That is what Germany is .all . about.'" · � 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 Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Termaat, Adriana B. (Schuurman) Termaat, Peter N. Description An account of the resource Collection contains genealogical, personal, and family papers and photographs documenting the lives and interests of Adriana and Peter Termaat. The bulk of the materials are related to family history and genealogical research carried out by the Termaats, including research notes and materials about places in the Netherlands that were significant to the Termaat and Schuurman families, such as the city of Alkmaar. Other materials in the collection are related to the Termaats' experiences on the eve of and during the Second World War, especially the German occupation of the Netherlands and the Termaats' participation in organized resistance to the Nazis. Also included are materials that document the family's post-war life in the United States, including their public efforts to recognize, commemorate, and honor people and events significant to World War II. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1869 - 2012 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/719">Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection, RHC-144</a> Subject The topic of the resource Netherlands Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945 World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands Dutch Dutch Americans Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-144 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Text Image Type The nature or genre of the resource application/pdf image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng nl 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 RHC-144_Termaat_NWS_1982-10-28-Washington-Post-Years-of-Resistance-Danger Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource O'Toole, Thomas Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982-10-28 Title A name given to the resource Visions of the Years of Danger: Dutch Resistance Members Recall the Nightmare Description An account of the resource Article about the Dutch Resistance Movement in The Washington Post. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource The Washington Post Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/719">Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection (RHC-144)</a> 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/bd375d77294a4a10089b4d3eda972288.jpg 84e3f888bca691c843243ade273bda18 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 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_000247 Title A name given to the resource Visit from state college presidents Description An account of the resource State college presidents and President Zumberge visit library. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges College administrators College Presidents Events 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 1965 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/229b076dd36ce95c40edbcd84553e0bf.mp4 55267068ad45405204c0f9bef78e2ddc 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 Flying Tigers Interviews and Films Subject The topic of the resource Oral history United States--History, Military China--History, Military Veterans China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Chinese World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Description An account of the resource Collection contains original 1940s films and interviews conducted in the 1990s, documenting the history of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) "Flying Tigers." The Flying Tigers were organized by the United States to aid China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Original filmstrips were recorded by AVG crewmen Joe Gasdick and Chuck Misenheimer, as well as Chinese Air Force Interpreter P.Y. Shu, who was assigned to assist Col. Claire Chennault as he trained Chinese pilots and established the AVG. Interviews with members of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) “Flying Tigers” were conducted by Frank Boring for the documentary film Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers, which he co-produced with Frank Christopher under the production company Fei Hu Films. The AVG Flying Tigers were a group of American aviators, mechanics, medical and administrative military personnel, led by Col. Claire Chennault to assist the Chinese Air Force in their defense against Japanese air strikes from 1941-1942. The AVG Flying Tigers also flew in defense of the Burma Road, a major Chinese military supply route. The group disbanded and returned to regular U.S. military service after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Boring, Frank Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/540">Fei Hu Films Research and Production Files (RHC-88)</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 1938/1991 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Fei Hu Films Christopher, Frank Gasdick, Joseph Misenheimer, Charles V. P.Y. Shu Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4; application/pdf Language A language of the resource English; Chinese Type The nature or genre of the resource video; text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-88 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1938-1945 World War II Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Moving Image A series of visual representations imparting an impression of motion when shown in succession. Examples include animations, movies, television programs, videos, zoetropes, or visual output from a simulation. 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 Shu-135 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource P.Y. Shu Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1941/1942 Title A name given to the resource Visit of Chiang Kai-shek, 1941-1942 Description An account of the resource Film in black and white and color taken by Chinese Air Force Interpreter P.Y. Shu (no sound). The footage was recorded by Shu as he traveled with Col. Claire Chennault to aid the Chinese Air Force in training and establishing the American Volunteer Group (AVG). The footage documents Shu's travel and family as well as Chennault's and the AVG's activities during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Time-stamped scene list: 00:00 (black and white film) Shu family affairs and recreation. Swimming at the river. Countryside and smoke over the treetops. Boys crossing a log bridge. 00:45 Chinese soldiers march in front of "Tiger" Wang Shuming. 00:55 Boy flying a model airplane. Red Cross bus driving toward camera. 01:40 Group of Chinese interpreters come out of a red cross bus and walk away. They eat lunch. 02:25 P-40 airplane moves on Kunming airfield. P-40 #84 on the ground. Closeup of shark face painted on the nose of the plane. 02:38 Chinese officers come out a Chinese passenger airplane on Kunming airfield. 03:15 AVG officers and staff in front of a building in Kunming. (left to right) Dr. Everett Bruce, C.E. Smith, Harvey Greenlaw, Chennault, Dr. Tom Gentry, Skip Adair, Dr. Sam Prevo, Ed Goyette, J. Hennessy, Paul Frillman, Dr. Joseph Lee, David Harris and John Williams. 03:44 Ground crews work on P-40, take off and put back on a propeller on Kunming airfield. 04:15 Chinese officers eat snacks at an airfield. "Tiger" Wang, Chennault, Lung Yin (governor of Yunnan province) and others come out of a building, walk to P-40s. P-40s in the sky over Kunming.04:53 Governor Lung Yin at an airfield. "Tiger" Wang among the crowd. 05:00 President Chiang Kai-shek at the Kunming airfield, shakes hand with Chinese officers, talks to "Tiger" Wang and Chennault. Madame CKS receives flowers. 05:42 P-40s in the sky over Kunming airfield. "Tiger" Wang, CKS, MCKS and Chennault at an airfield. CKS and MCKS leave by plane. 06:37 P-40 #42 takes off. American pilots and officers stand in front of a statue. 06:57 Group of AVG include Chennault, Adair, Bond, Wang and others walk to a cemetery. Funeral for four American Army Air Corpsmen. 08:33 (color film) Gov. Lung Yin in front of a building. MCKS and CKS come out of a building. Tiger Wong and the others follow them. They walk to an airplane and leave. 10:28 P. Y. Shu's wife and son. Son plays with marbles, then shoots a rifle. Shu holding a rifle with son. 11:18 AVG crewman with pet leopard "Kitten." 11:48 Tom Trumble, Chennault's secretary, in front of a twin-engine plane. Reeds and other at Kunming airfield. P-40 #110. 12:23 General Yin, a local commander of Chinese Air Force, and his family. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 Subject The topic of the resource China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group World War, 1939-1945 Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 Wang, Shuming Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/540">Fei Hu Films research and production files (RHC-88)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp20 Language A language of the resource eng chi Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II 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/0fad1024f91c418f0afbf1d686e0989a.jpg 239e7fa7435919f373e26635b6de96fe 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 Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 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 DC-07_SD-Heuchan_Visiting-from-Kentucky Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Title A name given to the resource Visiting from Kentucky Description An account of the resource A photo of a woman in what appears to be a bathing suit in front of two houses taped to a piece of paper. Above the picture, someone wrote “Taken in front of what used to be called “Maisonette” on left, current [unknown] cottage on right. McVea store was on east side of Lakeshore here.” Below the photo, it reads “1929-1930 Becky Talbot, visiting vonBrechts from Bardstown, KY.” Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Beaches Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file collected by the Kutsche Office of History as part of the Stories of Summer Project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</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 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9ed4f0f3ee156f72c48a320520f072da.jpg 2c9f9e61a3f05fa3c8a7e538e1deac48 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. 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Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 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_001397 Title A name given to the resource Visiting Polish professors at Grand Valley Description An account of the resource Grand Valley's International Studies Institute hosts two visiting Polish professors 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Incunabula Description An account of the resource The term incunabula refers to books printed between 1450 and 1500, approximately the first fifty years following the invention, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, of printing from moveable type. Our collection includes over 200 volumes and numerous unbound leaves from books printed during this period. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1450/1500 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Incunabula Collection (DC-03) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United </a> Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng it la nl de 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/. Title A name given to the resource Vita Christi [Dutch]. Tboeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi [folium 43] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_043Ludolphus1487 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ludolf, von Sachsen, ca. 1300-1377 or 8 Description An account of the resource One leaf of Vita Christi (Tboeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi) by Ludolphus De Saxonia. Printed in Antwerp by Gerard Leeu on November 3, 1487. Illustrated with red rubricated initials. [GW M19261; ISTC il00353000] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Antwerp: Gerard Leeu Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Ludolf, von Sachsen, ca. 1300-1377 or 8 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1487 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource nl https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1b6424b3b351c8fb745e976f4d635c09.pdf b4efeaeae9810e2ae9739c3856b62f90 PDF Text 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/. Title A name given to the resource Incunabula Description An account of the resource The term incunabula refers to books printed between 1450 and 1500, approximately the first fifty years following the invention, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, of printing from moveable type. Our collection includes over 200 volumes and numerous unbound leaves from books printed during this period. 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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/. Title A name given to the resource Vita S. Augustini. Orationes de laudibus S. Augustini [folium 182] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_182Cora1481 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Corano, Ambrogio Description An account of the resource One leaf from Vita S. Augustini, Orationes de laudibus S. Augustini, by Ambrosius de Cora. Printed in Rome by Georgius Herolt on December 8, 1481. [GW M21548; ISTC ic00881000] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rome: Georgius Herolt Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Language A language of the resource la Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1481 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/be0ae97d10ce59d0b01fd36e450ea112.pdf 2365a0266705dc1c033dd4fe8b89d777 PDF Text 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/. Title A name given to the resource Incunabula Description An account of the resource The term incunabula refers to books printed between 1450 and 1500, approximately the first fifty years following the invention, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, of printing from moveable type. Our collection includes over 200 volumes and numerous unbound leaves from books printed during this period. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1450/1500 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Incunabula Collection (DC-03) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United </a> Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng it la nl de 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/. Title A name given to the resource Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas partum. [Italian] Vite de sancti padri [folium 185] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_185Hieronymus1475 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20 Description An account of the resource One leaf from Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas partum [Italian] Vite de sancti padri, by Hieronymous. Printed in Venice by Gabriele di Pietro not after 1474. Illustrated with red and blue rubricated initials. [GW M50938; ISTC ih00228300] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Venice: Gabriele di Pietro Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Language A language of the resource it Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1474 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/eeef805cd9ebbe7a8780537423b2ec77.pdf a449980cf01283aa623dc5572f7cd1f0 PDF Text 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/. Title A name given to the resource Incunabula Description An account of the resource The term incunabula refers to books printed between 1450 and 1500, approximately the first fifty years following the invention, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, of printing from moveable type. Our collection includes over 200 volumes and numerous unbound leaves from books printed during this period. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1450/1500 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Incunabula Collection (DC-03) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United </a> Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng it la nl de 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/. Title A name given to the resource Vitae sanctorum patrum, Sive Vitas patrum [folium 145] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_145Hieronymus1482 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20 Description An account of the resource One leaf from Vitae sanctorum patrum, Sive Vitas patrum by Hieronymus. Printed in Strassburg by the Printer of the “Antichristus” (Heinrich Eggestein) circa 1482. [GW M50968; ISTC ih00222000] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Strassburg: Printer of the “Antichristus” (Heinrich Eggestein) Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Language A language of the resource de Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1482 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2e46dd42913fa39e0d89e017fac03a01.pdf 6ff3ff948c0b4a00420d87ec0243a107 PDF Text 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/. Title A name given to the resource Incunabula Description An account of the resource The term incunabula refers to books printed between 1450 and 1500, approximately the first fifty years following the invention, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, of printing from moveable type. Our collection includes over 200 volumes and numerous unbound leaves from books printed during this period. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1450/1500 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Incunabula Collection (DC-03) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United </a> Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng it la nl de 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/. Title A name given to the resource Vitae XII Caesarum [folium 174] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_174Seutonius1493 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seutonius Tranquillus Description An account of the resource One leaf from Vitae XII Caesarum by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. Printed in Bologna by Benedictus Hectoris on April 5, 1493. [GW M44198; ISTC is00825000] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Language A language of the resource la Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1493 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f318aec8b57112735175f759fa2e40d3.mp4 370f89c92958ce16f467f333843bced5 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/268f2a08e6c04dab2526feb2d0b64b95.pdf f95ced3568c6ae695fd5695940d9b6a4 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Jan Viveen (57:49) Background Information (00:35)       Born in 1918 in a small village in North Brabant, Netherlands. (00:40) His father worked selling fish that were shipped in and sold in the market. (1:15) Because there was no refrigeration, all the fish had to be sold the day they were received. (2:37) He was educated through high school in the Netherlands. He graduated in approx. 1935. (3:00) After graduating jobs were scarce. Jan took a job in a hardware store where he worked for 1 year before he joined the army. (3:30) He was drafted in 1936. This was normal, most young men were drafted. (4:36) Basic Training (4:57)        The men were given weapons training. (5:00) The men had to march approx. 35 miles. There was a lot of physical training. (5:33) The Dutch army placed high emphasis on military discipline. (5:59) Training typically lasted 1.5 years. (6:27) Before the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Jan paid much attention to the events occurring in Europe. (7:55) Jan expected a German invasion. (8:35) Most Dutch people were afraid of and disliked the Germans. (9:06) German Invasion of the Netherlands (May 10th 1940) (9:50)      Jan was on the border behind the Erft river manning an anti-tank gun. (9:57) Jan did not defend a bridge crossing, only the river. (10:52) The anti tank gun was a 47 mm. (11:27) The men started fighting at noon. By 5 AM German planes flew overhead and Netherlands was invaded. For Jan the war was over. (12:00) At this point Jan’s unit was forced to surrender. (12:26) Life as a POW (12:30)        The men were shipped by train into Germany. The train trip to the German/Polish border took 4 days. (12:35) On the 4 day train trip the men did not receive food or water. Some people died. (13:25) Jan was then placed in a conventional POW camp. (13:55) Jan was placed with other prisoners from France and Belgium but was kept separate from the Polish. (14:11) He was in the prison camp for 4 months. (14:33) The men were treated fairly well if they didn’t act out. Food was scarce. (14:44) One slice of bread at 6 AM and one bowl of soup at 6 PM. (15:03) �      The men could not take baths or showers. (15:55) Jan personally didn’t know of any prisoners who died of disease. (16:09) Jan mostly stayed with people from his native country. (16:15) The prison guards were average soldiers. (16:51) The men slept on boards without mattresses. (17:18) Jan signed a form to be released that said the men would not take any actions against the Germans. Jan was released after 4 months in the camp. (17:48) Service after Imprisonment (18:10)     He returned home by train on open freight cars. (18:14) When he arrived back in the Netherlands he and his fellow soldiers were met with much appreciation. (18:58) Jan stayed in the Army and was transferred to The Hague, Netherlands.(20:22) Here he would occasionally march. However he had little to do while stationed there. He did that for approx 1 month before he was dismissed out of the army in late 1940. (20:46) Life after Military Service (21:20)     After his discharge he ventured back home. (21:26) Jan acquired a job on a railroad by coal mines in the southern part of the Netherlands. Here he regulated the filling and emptying of box cars. (22:00) He worked with Dutch civilians and never saw German officers. He had the job until the end of the war in 1945. (22:48) He had this job for approx 12 years. (23:07) Life under Nazi Occupation (23:15)             There was very little relationship or interaction between the Dutch and the Germans until 1942. At this time supplies began to run short for the Dutch civilians. (23:27) He was married in 1942 during the occupation. (24:07) The civilians got food using coupons. The coupons were exchanged for the specific types of food indicated on the coupons. (24:38) Food was scarcer in the big city. (25:20) He was aware of resistance in the Netherlands. (26:00) Jan assisted shot down Allied airmen by providing them with places to stay and cover and aid in their return back to Allied territory. (26:41) Resistance members were regularly caught. They were never heard of after the Germens seized them. (27:56) The civilians were unable to have radios. They still hid them and listened at night. This is how they were informed. (28:30) In 1944 Jan’s house was destroyed after a bombing raid. He then walked to his parents' home (29:40) The bombers were targeting bridges. It took 12 tries to destroy the bridges. (30:18) Sittard in South Limburg was seized by Allied forces 20 minutes after the allied bombing. (31:20) In the spring of 1945 is when Jan’s city was liberated. (32:17) �  The mine and the railroads never shut down during military conflict. All of the coal mined went to Germany. (32:53) The winter of 1944/1945 was very difficult with recourses, such as food, running low. (33:30) Jan’s Work in Germany (34:02)           In the spring of 1945, the Dutch were told that they would be transferred to work in Germany. After no one showed up, 13 Dutch men were captured and killed. Once again the call went out for workers. This time 4,000 Dutch civilians marched to Germany for work transfer. (34:04) They marched 30 miles into Germany. A lot of people died on the march. (35:07) After the march, the men were taken by train to a labor camp in Germany. (35:18) Jan and his brother were forced to work as army guards until the Americans liberated the camp. (36:00) There were some people helping the Germans while they occupied Germany. (37:43) Jan’s wife stayed back in the Netherlands while Jan and the men were transferred for work. (39:34) The women were also sent to another location. Jan’s wife and sisters were allowed to say in the Netherlands because her brother was the head of the fire department. (40:11) More food was given to Jan in the labor camp than when he was a prisoner. The food was still low. (41:11) After Americans liberated the town, immediately Jan and his brother in law traveled home. The trip took 4 days. (41:53) Other men had a motorcycle. To travel. This motorcycle however, was confiscated by allied forces. (43:30) Life after the War (43:55)     After the war there were still fuel and food shortages. (44:00) Jan immediately took back his job at the railroad. (44:15) Housing was in short supply due to the amount that was destroyed by bombing runs. (44:43) It took several years before everything was restored by normal. (45:00) Move to the U.S. (45:23)      The U.S. offered to move Jan to the U.S. because he was bombed out during the war and survived he was offered an opportunity to move to the U.S. in December of 1956. (45:30) Jan was fluent in English before moving to the U.S. (46:31) Because the committee that offered him to travel to the U.S. was in Western Michigan, Jan immediately moved to Grand Rapids Michigan upon his arrival. (46:45) Jan began work in a factory making furniture for 4 years. (47:24) Later Jan worked in a print shop for 22 years. After this he retired. (47:52) Final Thoughts on Service and War (48:27)    The civilians were always afraid of being killed or harmed by the Germans. (48:58) He recalls the disappearance of the Jews and the yellow star badges. (49:22) Jan had a radio which he hid somewhere in the attic. (50:22) �    Near the end of the occupation, German soldiers came into his parent’s house to sleep. His father told them to leave after coming home and finding them and surprisingly they did. (51:28) He didn’t travel seeing to many other travelers when he and his brother in law traveled back to the Netherlands. (53:11) The area was completely bombed out after the war. (55:46) The bombing continued up until the Allies liberated the city. (56:51) � 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 ViveenJ0829V Title A name given to the resource Viveen, Jan (Interview outline and video), 2010 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Viveen, Jan Description An account of the resource Jan Viveen, born in 1918 in a small village in North Brabant in the Netherlands. After completing high school in 1936, he was drafted into the Dutch Army in 1936. At the time of the German invasion in 1940, he was manning an antitank gun on the banks of the Erft River, and stayed there until his unit was ordered to surrender. He spent about four months in a POW camp before being allowed to return home. After that, he worked in a rail yard and aided downed Allied airmen. In the spring of 1945, he was sent to a labor camp in Germany, and remained there until the liberation. 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 Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American United States. Army Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010-09-07 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 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/9005870116570182d322360b9be0a592.jpg 3a228254bfa27ed0c497b7f6ba42f082 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 Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng 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 VivianStuart Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Vivian, Stuart Description An account of the resource Stuart Vivian Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. 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 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d2ea9c8f520c42463792f12d522c9e03.pdf f2c53462a4ca3dc153529e9f1992f305 PDF Text 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/. Title A name given to the resource Incunabula Description An account of the resource The term incunabula refers to books printed between 1450 and 1500, approximately the first fifty years following the invention, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, of printing from moveable type. Our collection includes over 200 volumes and numerous unbound leaves from books printed during this period. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1450/1500 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Incunabula Collection (DC-03) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United </a> Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng it la nl de 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/. Title A name given to the resource Vocabularius juris utriusque [folium 76] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_076Vocabularius1473 Description An account of the resource One leaf from Vocabularius juris utriusque, printed in Basel by Michael Wenssler not after 1474. [GW M12625; ISTC iv00335000] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Basel: Michael Wenssler Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Language A language of the resource la Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1474 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/715eb35101059ece4c5aa4855c618db9.pdf 78efd19878ae33f2355bec32ee4dc0ce PDF Text 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/. Title A name given to the resource Incunabula Description An account of the resource The term incunabula refers to books printed between 1450 and 1500, approximately the first fifty years following the invention, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, of printing from moveable type. Our collection includes over 200 volumes and numerous unbound leaves from books printed during this period. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1450/1500 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Incunabula Collection (DC-03) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United </a> Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng it la nl de 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/. Title A name given to the resource Vocabularius praedicantium, sive Variloquus [folium 39] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_039Melber1486 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Melber, Johannes Description An account of the resource One leaf of Vocabularius praedicantium, sive Variloquus by Johannes Melber and edited by Jodocus Eichmann. Printed in Strassburg by Johann Prüss in 1486. [GW M22728; ISTC im00464000] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Strassburg: Johann Prüss Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Melber, Johannes, 15th cent. Dictionaries Language A language of the resource la Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1486 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Eichmann, Jodocus (editor) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a411a4958809feda4469c159b9ac25c3.pdf 60ec65ede2cc1b8d8e465b8a52f49821 PDF Text 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/. Title A name given to the resource Incunabula Description An account of the resource The term incunabula refers to books printed between 1450 and 1500, approximately the first fifty years following the invention, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, of printing from moveable type. Our collection includes over 200 volumes and numerous unbound leaves from books printed during this period. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1450/1500 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Incunabula Collection (DC-03) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United </a> Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng it la nl de 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/. Title A name given to the resource Vocabularius praedicantium, sive Variloquus [Latin and German] [folium 126] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_126Melber1480 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Melber, Johannes Description An account of the resource One leaf from Vocabularius praedicantium, sive Variloquus [Latin and German] by Johannes Melber. Printed in Reutlingen by Michael Greyff circa 1480. Illustrated with red rubricated initials. [GW M22711; ISTC im00459000] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Reutlingen: Michael Greyff Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Language A language of the resource la Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1480 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/739ef4a09deea9d8cadbff726bee03f7.mp4 b72907707f330043255dca2c0a1ee7ce https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2a37ec41c47a00dccee77e536e27a71b.pdf 8625ab621c237948d9ae9bd4c5620b75 PDF Text Text Interview Notes Length (51:23) Donald Vogel Vietnam War Veteran United States Navy (00:20) Pre Enlistment. • Graduated from High School 1966 • Joined Naval Reserve right out of high school. (01:57) • Sent to San Francisco • When in San Francisco, assigned to Assault Craft Division 13, which worked on shallow amphibious assault boats. • These assault boats held four men and worked on coastlines and rivers throughout Vietnam. (02:40) Active Duty. • Arrived in Vietnam in October 1967. • Returned home in mid 1968. • When stateside, he was stationed in Coronado, California. • Worked as an engine mechanic on Naval boats. (03:45) Second Tour. • Sent for a second tour in Vietnam in September 1968. • Was in Vietnam through the beginning of 1969. (04:24) Living Conditions in Vietnam. • Traveled with his company for the entire tour, never stayed in one place. • He helped deliver troops, machinery and supplies. • Operated between Da Nang and the DMZ. • There were no sleeping quarters on the boat; instead they slept on the floor. • His ship was 80 ft. long. • At times the men were housed on the larger amphibious assault ships which had sleeping quarters, showers, and a hot meal. (07:51) Daily Activities • Mission was to supply troops, not a combat mission. • After breakfast, he would check all components of the boat to make sure it was working correctly. • The men would receive their orders and carry out that particular mission for the day. • The majority of missions were carried out calmly and peacefully. • 90% of the time was spent working with the Marine Corps. �(13:35) Description of the Boat. • Large open area in front where troops were held. • The back of the boat held the pilothouse flanked by two 50-caliber machine guns. (15:00) Duties aboard the boat. • He manned one of the machine guns next to the pilothouse and was also responsible for the maintenance of the ship. • He often stayed up late into the night working on the boat. (15:36) Injuries • Although they came under fire, no one in his crew was ever injured in Vietnam. • Out of the four boats that traveled together, there were only a couple serious injuries. (17:00) Difficulties about being in Vietnam • He had been married for three months when he left and missed his wife a great deal. • It also felt like his entire life was on hold while he was in Vietnam. • The death and destruction around him reminded him of his own mortality. • It was also difficult for him to comprehend that someone was out there and was trying to kill him as their sole mission. • Soldiers encountered evil, which he believes attributes to the soldiers returning home very different. (24:05) The shock of dealing with so many deaths. • He never got used to the amount of death he witnessed. • Watched three truckloads of bodies being loaded onto a plane for shipment home during his first weeks overseas. • He had to detach himself from the amount of death surrounding him and his company. • Was very close friends with a chaplain who was trained to help with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder who helped him deal with the morbidity of war when he returned home. (30:30) Communication. • His main communication method with his family was letter writing. • He wrote a letter to his wife every day, who also wrote him every day. • The mail system was very sporadic. • Only twice was he able to call his wife, both times from the Philippines, this took about 40 minutes for connection for only 20 minutes of talk time. • He is envious of the men in Iraq for having the ability to use the internet and telephone calls. • He also used reel-to-reel tape recordings to send messages to his wife. • He still has every letter sent during his time in Vietnam. (36:05) Most Vivid Memory. �• • The shock at the sheer amount of death he experienced when he first arrived in Vietnam. The sounds of helicopters and fireworks still trigger memories. (38:47) Political thoughts during Vietnam. • He was 18 when he joined and admits he was not very aware of politics. • Soldiers are not political, but obedient to those ranking above him. • He believes that the Vietnam War was a just cause. • While the military did some “dumb things” and lost the war, he feels the cause was just. (47:30) Comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq. • He thinks the battle compares politically. • However, the death toll is far less in Iraq than it was in Vietnam. � 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 VogelD Title A name given to the resource Vogel, Donald (Interview outline and video), 2007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vogel, Donald Description An account of the resource Vogel served in the U. S. Navy both stateside and during two tours overseas during the Vietnam War. He joined the Navy immediately after high school to avoid being drafted. Vogel recalls his experiences during basic training, his time spent in Vietnam, and the technology used during the war. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Morgan (Interviewer) Forest Hills Eastern High School (Ada, Mich.) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans United States. Navy Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American Video recordings Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-03 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 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/cbf9b88ba4588c48407d2f990b53b705.jpg 7fa92064639da2df2cb281a12ecbae8d https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3638750aa4d0f1f3b335f96767670ead.jpg edcb91be8d89ff578741b2517c41bf7b 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 Insel-Bücherei Series Description An account of the resource The German publishing company Insel Verlag was founded in 1899 by Anton Kippenberg in Leipzig. In its early years the firm only printed expensive, beautifully-produced volumes, until demand led to the publication of the more modest Insel-Bücherei series in 1912. Relatively inexpensive but with the same careful sense of design and typography, these smaller-format books reprinted shorter works from a variety of German, European, and world authors. The series numbers considerably more than a thousand titles and is still being issued. The Digital Collection contains the scanned covers of 140 titles held by Grand Valley State University Libraries. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1904-1987 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection 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 Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource ger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 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 DC-05_IB0068 Title A name given to the resource Volkserzählungen Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</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 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Volkserzählungen, by Leo Tolstoy, published by Insel-Verlag. Insel-Bücherei Nr. 68 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. Insel-Bücherei. Z315.I5 B83 no.68 Language A language of the resource de 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/d8e2e22a88db1eed71bf7f3ca4e31c39.jpg fee40e82dc92c4b6c109599ee47cecb5 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 Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng 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 RHC-183_A014-0085 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-05 Title A name given to the resource Volksparade float at Tulip Time parade Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a Tulip Time parade float featuring a group of women in formal attire waving to the crowds in downtown Holland, Michigan in May 1960. Photograph by Douglas R. Gilbert. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Holland (Mich.) Spring festivals Parades Black-and-white photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</a> 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 Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg 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 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/9ebc2508dc8f3905f4653e2885d0a2e2.mp4 37fa89ddcc103eb9ff30fcce42d5cb1b https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1e0f9185b888653c0d0a472bc1d664d2.pdf 7af930ae8099c41259dd5833d261e319 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: Interviewee’s Name: Lawrence Vollink Length of Interview: 1:22:29 Interviewed by: James Smither Transcribed by: Hokulani Buhlman Interviewer: We’re talking today with Larry Vollink of Jenison, Michigan and the interviewer is James Smither of the Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project. Okay, so Larry, start us off with some background on yourself and to begin with: where and when were you born? Well, this is Grand Rapids, Michigan, of course. Here we are, in Grand Rapids, and it all started just down the road a ways in the Burton Heights area. We used to live there on Darwin right behind the school and I lived right behind the big chimney; and I always thought that that chimney was gonna fall on my house when we were kids there on Darwin. It was a wonderful school, going to school there are Burton, and then we had to—we, after 9th grade, we we went to South High. Okay. And for three years, and then I graduated South High back in 1965. Okay, now what did your family do for a living when you were a kid? Well, of course my dad was… he was quite poor, only had an 8th grade education, but he was religious and so he would take our family to church and my mother and everything, so we found a nice, you know, beautiful church to go to in the Reformed Church and… Right. What kind of jobs did he have? Oh, he worked for Kelvinator. And he loved the Kelvinator, working there, my mother of course never worked a day in her life, you know… …Outside of the home? �Outta the just being a mother. Our kids, I had 4 sister and a brother, all younger than me and so we had a very active neighborhood where I lived. Wonderful people and I love coming back here from time to time, I come back here to Grand Rapids and now I’m back for good, since I moved back here to Grand Rapids after 52 years being away. Okay, so what did you do after you finished high school in ‘65? Well, again I graduate from South High School and that’s a very well-known high school because Gerald Ford, well you know, that’s his high school and Al Green, that’s his high school and… so some famous people have come out of that high school and so while I was in the college one of the things that I did at the church there—I went to camp, the church camp, and so at the church camp as I was getting to make a decision in my life I decided, should I go into the ministry or not? And… That was my first desire, was to go into the ministry, but then at the time the Vietnam War was going on, so a lot of people—young people my age—were, you know, after high school joining the army, going into the military, and probably I would say out of my high school class there were probably at least 10. And of course one of them was killed that I didn’t know until years later. So… the idea then, I had to find a bible college with my church that I went to in Lansing, and the Great Lakes Christian College, actually they called it a Bible College but it became later the Christian College, so in 1970 I graduated from the college. I became a minister at a little church up north near Traverse City out in the country somewhere, paying me $25 a week for my ministry, but so I had to kind of find jobs on the side to be able to, you know, earn my own income. (4:20) Okay, I’m gonna back up a little bit to a couple of things. Yeah, sure! One of them was, when you made the—did you consider whether or not to go to college at all? I mean was that when you were in your senior year of high school, what affected the decision to go to college rather than not? Okay, well I had a decision to make, you know, whether to go—to join the army. Well, what happened like 2 months before I was graduating around the month of March, April or March, there were many, many men and women that were killed in Vietnam. I mean, Grand Rapids Press talks about all the people that were killed and so, you know, that was kind of scary. Do I really want to do this? And so, but my grandfather, he was able to help me pay for my college to go for my first year, and so I went to the Bible College, they changed my draft-status from 1D to 4D, so that meant while I’m going to college I wasn’t gonna be able to be selected to go into the service like my other high school friends were. So, I continued to stay there in the Bible College and then I met my first wife, Suzie, and we became husband and wife in 1969. Her family was �out of the Air Force, she was in France for a couple years during her high school so she had a military background with her, and so later when it was time for me to go into the military it was an easy decision with her. Now for you, if you become, obviously while you’re in college you have a deferment for 4 years but then if you become a minister after that then you’re exempt from the draft? (6:14) Exactly, yes. Okay, alright. And now—but you’re in college now at a Bible College at Lansing, Michigan, did people pay much attention to the war, did they talk about the war while you were there? Well, actually where I was at, no. That was not---I mean it wasn't like a, you know, Berkeley and you know in California, there were no protests of any kind. I think they, in a way they supported, from the churches, they supported whoever went. There was no, you know, there was no negativity thing, you know, for the people that did go in. So there was, you know, whatever happened with people if they did go in there were prayers that were given, there was support given to families and so it was a positive thing from a Christian standpoint. And was there any interest sort of in the peace movement or trying to encourage the end of the war or did people just not discuss the politics? That's most definitely, yes. Okay. We'll, the other part of it is they flew the flag, you know, proudly. They don't do this now but at the time during when the---a lot of the churches, you'd have two flags: you'd have the Christian flag and then you'd have the American flag on the pulpit stands. We'll, some of the Bible Colleges now don't do that, they don't, you know, advertise having you know the American flag because, you know, because if the idea that hey everybody, you know, the world is we're not just honoring America, but you know we… So, but the flag was, that was, you know, people were very patriotic during that time and it's sad how they came back though, of course, with Vietnam when they came back they were not accepted and so. Later on that helped be my type of being able to help people when they came back during Desert Storm. I was able to help out in that area. Okay, so let's steer back: so basically after 1970 you get a small church outside of Traverse City, how long did you stay there? (8:29) �Probably about a year and a half, and it's just basically an old school house and an old church next to the cemetery and at the time there were like only 8 people there. And a couple older men in their 80s, and it was interesting me being a 20 year old and it was quite an experience being a preacher there. But, of course because it didn’t pay very much I was looking for another church and then I found on in Lapeer, Michigan and so I took the church there in Lapeer and again, followed an older man that was there. I stayed at the Lapeer Church for a couple years and in following that somebody asked me to come to Ohio, and then I took a congregation in Belle Center, Ohio a little church, you know, where my ministry was very successful for about three years and after that I wanted to kind of---again, looking I'm always thinking, you know, "Bigger church, bigger church" being as young as I was and so I found another church in the Chicago area in Keagen, Illinois. Okay. And then I had my Ministry there. And then it was at that time where I met people from the Great Lake, the naval base there, and they said "Why don't you look into going into the chaplaincy, the military chaplaincy?" So I looked into it, found out that I needed a master's degree, so I went back to Grand Rapids and then I went to the Grand Rapids Seminary. Was there for four years and got my master's degree in 1980 and joined the army, as a chaplain. And then while you were stuck doing your master's how did you support yourself and your family? We'll, very easily, that's a good question. I just share something with you: when I left the church there in---what, Waukegan, Illinois? it was a sad situation because I had been there for two and a half years and I thought, "Well, you know, I'm not too sure this is gonna work. It looks like I might have to just maybe get into a different kind of… maybe a career " Because here I was, I. less than three years I've been in three churches and, actually four counting the little one, and they…so when I moved back, I tell the story, when I moved back to Grand Rapids just down the road here I stayed at the apartment complex down here, just here on 36 and Clive Park. The first two weeks I needed to get a job and then I needed some money to pay for my expenses for my stay there, so I got a job within two weeks, I got a job and the first two weeks I got a paycheck and the amount of what I had… well actually, I had a check that was out on my door for $834 and it was anonymous, nobody signed the check. And I went "Where did this come from?" Well, it was kind of an odd figure, it wasn't an even number it was like 834. We'll, two weeks later, after I'm back here in Grand Rapids when I get my first paycheck, it's the same amount. And that covered for my expenses and somebody up above was telling me, "This is where you need to be." and that was kind of one of those signs, you know, that this is a good thing which you did and so it was an easy thing. �All right. Now did you have a job as a minister again or doing something else? (12:32) Yup. Well I did, and I was up in Big Rapids and we were living up there, there was a church called Roger Heights Christian Church and just outside of Big Rapids. So I ministered to the church, and then my wife was still here, we were living over here for awhile and she worked at General Motors, and I worked at Steelcase. And so before I joined the military I had to give up my two jobs, you know, Steelcase and GM and became a, you know, a military officer You're commission, you're not enlisted but when you go in as an officer and of course the family said "Are you sure you want to do this? You're leaving Steelcase, you're leaving General Motors," you know, "You got a nice income, everything is beautiful, why are you doing this?" Okay, I guess I'm just trying to sort the employment history out a little bit: you had the church in Big Rapids and then did you leave that to work at these other jobs, or? We'll that was first and kind of like, actually you know it's really busy. I had the church and I had, you know, GM and Steelcase. You did all of those things at the same time? Yes, yes. And then I was doing my seminary. Yeah. So, yeah, that was me. Very busy, with two sons. I was gonna ask that too: any kids? Yeah, okay. Two sons and my wife was really busy and yeah, if was quite an experience when we left, but in 1980 is when we came in to the military. Okay, now do they send you---do you do a form of basic training before you actually do anything else? Well… you could probably call jt---they call it basic training but it's, you know when they have chaplains they kind of go easy with chaplains. I'm not expecting a lot of calisthenics, I guess. You know, well, yeah. �You still do PT? (14:32) Yeah, you still have to do the PT, you still have to do the PT test which is, you know, very difficult. And so yeah, you do the sit-ups, you do the pushups, you do the sit-ups and… yeah, you do the 2-mike run. And at the age of 33 it was pretty hard for me. Where were you doing that training? Well, I started bout at the Chaplain School. And the Chaplain School for the army is in For Monmouth, New Jersey. Now… years later they moved to Fort Jackson so that's where the school is now, everything happens at Fort Jackson. But, yeah, Fort Monmouth… when we started out there were probably… I would say… probably about 25 to 30 chaplains, new chaplains that were coming on board that you work with and you train with and… it was a beautiful experience then, you know? and now… If I think back I would never, you know, think of wanting to do anything else. This is what I enjoy doing. Were all of the trainees men? We had, let me think… at that time, yes. But then later on we had some women that became really good chaplains. One became a friend of men that worked in my church; it's a little hard for some churches, you know, for woman to be pastors. Some churches, you know, in some churches it's accepted and other church's it's not. Yeah, but I'm asking for the other side, how the military delt with that, but they were allowing women to become chaplains at a certain point? Absolutely. All right. That's never changed, it's a good thing. Okay. Now how long was that chaplain school? Well, the first---when you do the Chaplain School, the first one, you do the basics and that's like 6 weeks. And then they assign you to wherever they want you to go as chaplain, and I got assigned to Fort Campbell in Kentucky. And then you come back three years later and you go to the advanced course back to New Jersey, and that's for 6 months, the advanced course. And so those are the only two chaplain training programs that they have. �All right, and do you do the advanced course before being promoted to captain or was that not really linked that way? Well, when I came in I came in as a captain. Okay. So you weren't—---you came in as captain? (17:19) Yup, automatically you become a captain, but about three or four years later they changed it to being a first lieutenant. So you started out as a first lieutenant and then later you become a captain automatically after 6 months. Okay. so, now you go to Fort… Okay, so you're at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and what unit was based there? The 101st airborne. Of course that's a real elite group, particularly during the Vietnam War anand awhile even before that, during World War II. Right. You know. And it used to be the airborne and Fort Bragg or Fort Benning---Fort Brag is also airborne. But later on through the years they took the airborne out of it and it became the air assault where they repelled a lot of helicopters. And then at that time that's what I did, so I never was able to jump out of an airplane but I did the repelling and did that kind of training and it was tough for the chaplain to do that---it took me twice to do that. It's a… like a two week course. So you go out of Fort Campbell and now you get kind of an introductory course, welcome to the 101st? So you… aside from learning how to repel out of a helicopter what did they teach you? Well, how to survive out in the field. That's the main thing. And… I can tell you just like a day's work for a chaplain, like on a Sunday, it's not your normal Sunday that pastors have. And so when I first came there, there were like 25 other chaplains and they'll assign you a chapel to minister to. You're assigned on a unit, a battalion, with about.. that's about 550 soldiers. And my unit they were Infantry soldiers and if course you spend a lot of time out on the field training and that kind of thing, but just a normal week would mean is basically you do a lot of counseling. You're like right next door to where those guys are and you know, "Chaplain can I talk to you?" you're just loaded with all kinds of questions and different things and, you know, you're busy during the week. Then your Sunday comes. My particular Sunday… well, it started out usually, at 7 o'clock in the morning. I would go over to the stockade where, you know, there's about 50 guys that are there in the stockade that are being dogged out by the drill sergeants and that kind of thing. But they'll offer them a chapel service in the morning and so usually they'll �come… they were probably about 7:30 in the morning. I'll have a chapel service but maybe about 10-20 guys. And just a reference for people who don't know the vocabulary, stockade is basically the base jail? Yeah. Where guys who got in trouble the night before wind up or. Yup, exactly, that’s what we call the stockade so, yeah. Then right after that I would get in my car and go over to the high school and because of the—there would only be, at the high school, there would be the Sunday School program with the adults. And so it had kids that were there and then we’d have, you know, they asked me to teach the adult class. So now I had the stockade at 7 and they also asked me to teach the adult class, and I said “Oh, I can do that.” You know, “I got about 10 years experience, I can do that.” So then they assigned me to the chapel and then I had to be at the chapel at about 10:30, 11:00, and I would do a chapel service there and usually there would be about… probably, on the average, about 60 in attendance. And then after that about 12:30 I’d take my family over to the officer’s club and get a meal, you know, they had a nice buffet for the people there. And then I’d go back home, you know, put my boys to bed and then my chaplain assistant would come pick me up in the Jeep and we’d go out into the field where there would be training going on, and usually I’d have a little chapel service of about 10 maybe 2 or 3 different times during the Sunday. And then I would come back, usually I’d get back about 5 or 6 o’clock and then my church that I was associated with, I went to their church services at night and I’d get back about 8 o’clock, and then Monday morning I had to get up for 5 o’clock run, a two-mile run with the battalion and… my commander didn’t care what you did on Sundays, the only thing he was concerned about was whether you made it to that 5 o’clock or 6 o’clock two-mile run with the battalion, and then, you know, then it started a normal week. So that’s my—that was my work on a Sunday. All right. Do you remember which battalion you were attached to? (22:41) Yes, the first—we’ll call that the first of the 503rd, 3rd brigade and yeah, it was a tough unit. They were… they had gotten some, you know, during the Bastogne time, if you remember the WWII times where they had did a jump and did the air assault. I mean, I’m not— Well they drove into Bastogne. Bastogne, yeah, the paratroopers. �Right, yeah. And that was one of the highlights of their history, and so I was a part of that. That unit. So, yeah. Okay. All right, now. This is going good! Talk a little bit about the kinds of things that the men would come to talk to you about. What sorts of issues or problems would they bring in? Well, you know, suicide of course. That hasn’t ever changed, I mean we still have the suicide promise today, veterans are still dealing with it and of course in the military it was even stronger. Sometimes they wanted to get out and, you know, they said here’s what they would do, “Here, chaplain, here’s what I’m gonna do since they’re not gonna put me out, I’ll make sure they put me out because I will overeat and make sure I don’t pass the PT test. All those kinds of things, you know, the negative things that would cause them to go ahead and put me out.” So, and a lot of times that was the kind of counseling that they were asking me. So, you know, it’s… of course depression, stress, and you got it—so, there’s a lot of different things like that, you know. And I work at the VA now and those are kinda like the same things, you know, that these men have. Okay. Now the people who came and told you they wanted to get out, did you make any suggestions about more sensible ways of doing it or more stand-up ways of doing it? (24:49) Well they, the number one was trying to over-eat. I mean at that time, they didn’t want anybody in the military that was overweight, so. Right. So there were guys up to 19 years, okay, I know one man he was in the military for 19 years and they put him out cause he was overweight. They didn’t care whether he finished up on his 20, so you know, that’s the kind of strict regulations in the army then. Were there ways that they could simply leave or get out early, could they petition for that or were there legal ways of getting out early? Well, I’m trying to think… not, well probably the only other legal one was when, you know, if you were gay, okay? They had what they call a Chapter 9 and you’d get like a Chapter 9 and then, you know, you would got the paperwork and, you know, they would put you out during �that time. Right, so, other than that... Yeah, it was difficult. You had to either go with the train or not. Now with a large unit like that, you said you had 25 chaplains or whatever on the base, did men sort of choose which service to go if you had Catholics and different versions of Protestants and so forth? Oh yeah. You’re getting, you know, if you have 60 people coming to your service, are some of them from outside your battalion? Oh yeah. Absolutely, yeah yeah. They were… my chapel was not in the battalion area, it was in another brigade area and so the reason they gave me my chapel is because my church background, we had communion every Sunday. So they would say “Okay, this chapel will have communion every Sunday.” and then another chapel will be Episcopal, high liturgical. Yeah. And then this will be the Catholic and this will be the Jewish chapel and so that’s what they did. The Pentecostal type thing. They kind of, you know, accommodate to whatever, you know, the person’s religion was. So that helped with me being able to find the right chapel. Right, okay. Now did you and your family live on the base? (27:14) Oh yes, we did. Yeah, they provided housing for us and the other part of it was right next to the golf course, so I liked the idea that, you know, once I’m getting down and, you know, sometimes on Saturdays, you know, I hit the golf course. I had a golf friend, you know, “Larry, lets go golfing!” you know, so that was kind of a neat thing. We always try to keep active when you’re in the military and so, yeah the housing is a good thing, it’s… you know you meet good friends while you’re there in the military, you become family with other families and, you know, the other part of it is they’re still, you know, my friends after so many years. I still have contact with them and, you know, we keep in touch. You know, the military is a family for life. Now, was it a standard practice for the military to move the chaplains around from different place to place? Yeah, every three years. Okay. �Just like everybody else does, yup, we go every 3 years so, it’s time to go. So after the 3 years at Fort Campbell where do you go next? (28:28) Okay, I went to Germany and so when I went to Germany there I was assigned to the 36nd addcom which is an air-defense artillery unit. And they had, the 32nd addcom, was spread out all over Germany. They had probably a unit in about every other town., so they were scattered all over from Germany, north to south to east to west and one of the things that I did was, as a chaplain, I was assigned to a unit, like a unit that was attached to another unit, so my units were basically scattered all over Germany. So then what my first one, when I first started out, they assigned me a van, so one week I would go north and visit the troops up north. The next week I’d go over to the East side over in Grafenwöhr and different places, and then the next week I’d go south and then again the next week I’d go west. So where was your home base? Well, my home base was in Worms, Germany, you know the famous town was Worms, Germany where the Martin Luther King was— Well, Martin Luther. —And did those things but I want to tell you about my unit, this is kind of an exciting thing, we being scattered all over. I had a full-bird colonel who was assigned a jet so he would fly every week to all these units during the week, and so sometimes he would go, you know, he’d go to one unit one day and then he’d go to another unit another day, and so that’s how he did his travel: with a jet. I was doing the van. Yeah. So what happened was, during his time of being in the states one of the planes went down in Fort Campbell and, some people don’t remember this but they called it the Gander Airplane Crash and there were 258 soldiers that were killed, and this was in Fort Campbell. And that happened during the time when my commander was over in the states, so he came back to Germany, you know, the first thing he does he calls me in the office, and said “Larry, I need to speak to you for just a minute, but I need to have you lock the door. I need to talk to you privately.” So he told me about how this had really affected him and because he went flying, you know, with the troops, it made him very nervous. You know, he thought maybe his life would be in danger by his flying, so he asks me, “I would feel much more comfortable if you, my chaplain, would fly with me. So when I to the troops, throw the van away now and you’re gonna be flying with me, so we’re �gonna be visiting the units this time and here’s what we’re gonna do: we’re gonna go in, I’m gonna talk to the commanders first, give them a chew-out, and about a half hour later you as the chaplain will come in and give them a shoulder to cry on.” (Vollink laughs.) And that was my task of being able to see Germany from the air. So it was a beautiful assignment, I loved being able to do that. I did that for about a year, so it was good. And then you stayed in Germany for 3 years total? Yes. So after that, you did a year of all the flying around stuff and otherwise was it in the van back and forth? (32:24) Yeah, I got—the van was gone after that. So, well sometimes I would, you know, I had a van assigned to me while I was there, so. Not a helicopter or a plane, but a van. And you have your family with you at that point? Oh yes. At that time I had 3 sons, you know, and they were with me. One of my sons was born in Germany in Heidelberg. And did you live on or off base then? Well, they gave us an assignment off-base but it was a military subdivision, you know, assigned for the military only. But we were basically off the base. And did they have schools on the base or where did your kids go to? Kids old enough for schol? That’s a good question. That’s a good question because they didn’t want you mixing with the German families, so we usually had—wherever we would go we’ve had their own, you know, their own schools. We’re family and that’s always been good too. So the military always provided for our best, for our needs, it was a great experience. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world, and I love Germany, it’s a beautiful place to be. And how did the German people treat the American servicemen while you were there? In some places it was good, other places it wasn’t, and of course you could tell, you know, sometimes they’d give you the silent treatment. You know, that means “Don’t bother me.” Other times you know it would be good. I had some good experiences when I was there, we used to go to—when my son was first born—we used to go to one of the restaurants out in the country they �had good food. Good German foods you could get there cheap, and so while we were eating I had my little son that was born there and the waitress would come up and she would take him and put him in her arms and, you know, go like this and she would just walk all around and say “Look at this beautiful baby.” so that was a good experience, yes. Were there any political tensions between the Americans and Germans at that point? (34:51) No. Because a little bit earlier, and we’re back in the 70s, there’s various terrorist groups and things like that going on, I think they’re probably quieter by the mid 80’s and there may have been some people that didn’t like Ronald Regan particularly, but on the whole if you felt negativity was it just because you were foreigners or because you were American or you can’t tell? Well I think they enjoyed us being there, but the tensions were not in Germany the tensions were if you went to, like, to Greece? Some of the other countries like Turkey, or if you visited also France, again some of those countries other than German, yeah you could sense the tensions there, you know? A few were Americans. And so they kind of like, they would shun you sometimes, that’s happened, you know I’ve gone to Greece there in Athens at the time and at Crete, the island of Crete, we did some training there and once and awhile you could sense that they were saying, “Ehh, we don’t” you know, but they’d like you to visit them of course. All right, so your unit there, did you do a lot of stuff with other NATO forces or did you just stay with the Americans? Yeah, my units weren’t really involved with the NATO parts, you know? NATO was mostly up in the Belgium areas in the other countries. So that was… yeah that was a different political part of it, but Germany was very quiet in that area. But, yeah, the NATO part of it was way up there and we didn’t really see anything that would cause us to, you know, get scared or nervous about. Well, but it’s also just a question about like joint training exercises and things like that, cause you have all of these different national armies and so forth. Yup. At the time we didn’t have those, mostly Germany was where our units were, yup, that’s what we focused on. And did you work at all with the German military or was it just all Americans? No, just all Americans, yeah. Yeah. And I think it’s probably still the same way there, going on the same way. �All right. Would you take your family touring around Europe while you were there? Well I did at one time, I chose to go to England at the wrong time. I had this beautiful van that I bought, Toyota Van, we call it the moon-thingy because it was a nice beautiful—it was a nice family van. And of course we took it over to England over there, and we took it to do some traveling and my parents, well actually my wife’s parents, were with us at the time. So when we went over there that was around the 4th of July time frame, and it was basically Queen’s Day and everybody came to London at that time and it was just like the 4th of July being down in Washington DC on the 4th of July. And of course we had our van there and somebody broke into it, stole the camera, stole some stuff out of it, so I had to stick around for a couple more days to get my vehicle fixed so that I could go back home. Sweden is a beautiful place, I would love to drive over in that area; Wales, you know, those are beautiful places, any time you’re out of London it’s a beautiful place over there, you know. France, they were not too friendly so we tried to stay out of the France area, same thing with Spain, you know, but Germany, Austria, beautiful place and then England, you know, is a beautiful place so it was beautiful there and yeah. I loved it being there. All right, and then so after Germany, then, what’s the next stop? Okay now the next stop would be the chapel school in New Jersey, we had 6 months there. Again, you gain new friends, new chaplain friends, new men and families and those families they stay in contact with you for years and so that happened for about 6 months, the training. I just saw a picture of the chaplain school, advanced school, and a beautiful picture of the graduation and that looked like about 40 people of the chaplains that had graduated and I remembered those days when I was there. So then after that time— Okay, so what do they actually teach you in the chaplain school at that level? What is different from what you had the first time? Well, mostly in how to just be an officer, with the higher echelon you get to study a lot of the— you do some studying with wars, you know, and the backgrounds, you know, military type things and you have a good understanding of what the military did in the past and…but yeah, a lot of leadership type things, learning how to be an officer, you know, in the colonel level. That’s basically that kind of training, and it was good training. Were you still a captain at that point? (40:28) Getting ready to—well, yes I was at that time. I was still a captain, it took me some time to become a Major, so it’s a tough thing. I hate to say this, but in a military Sessing: your officers, �your military commanders, if they’re gonna—you get an evaluation and what happens is the chapel has to really be good to get the top block, but most of the time they don’t get the top block, so what they’ll do it they’ll give their own military men, you know, mentored and that kind of things. They’ll save the top block for those kinds of men and then they’ll put the chaplain in the second or third block, so that’s just the way it is in the military. So, chaplains need to get promoted really quick. So basically, you’re doing a good job and you can stay on being a chaplain longer but you’re not necessarily moving up? (41:34) No. Okay. The ones that move up quickly for chaplains are the ones who get that top block from a commander and if they get that top block you can very much count on them the be getting promoted. But it doesn’t happen very much. Okay. All right. Was there politicking around that kind of thing? Well, yeah sometimes. It could be a political thing, I’ll gave you an example for one chaplain, I used to tell the story about what happened to him, he was getting ready to be promoted, then to be rated, he did something that he probably shouldn't have done in his career and that was: his commander was driving a Jeep for his own personal reasons, you know? For his family and different things, you know, and course the chaplain didn’t like that too well so he went to his superior officer and told him about what he was doing. So, needless to say, it got back to him and so when evaluation time came he got a low rating because he stood up for what he thought was right. And sometimes chaplains have to do that, they have to stand up for whats right, but it the long run another chaplain was able to still down the road a ways because of his good… being a good chaplain for his military, you know, people. He did get promoted, so in due time God will reward you. May not be your time, but it’ll be a later time. And so, where did you go after chaplain school? Well, okay then I got assigned to Fort Carson, Colorado Springs and that’s a beautiful place to get assigned to. Of course I bought a house there up in the mountain shadows area on the other side of the Colorado Springs area, and where I bought my house—where I lived was not too far from the Flying W Ranch and where the mountains were and what we called Kissing Camels where the red rocks are, you know? So I would take my two boys to school every morning, as I was taking them to school they would see the red rocks. They would see, you know, the beautiful �Colorado Springs and then where my house was at I would look outside the back window and I’d see all the lights of Colorado Springs. I had the most beautiful view there when I was in Colorado Springs and that was a beautiful thing, and a few years later after that there was a fire that destroyed all of those homes including my home. Destroyed. So this is a wild fire? Yeah, the wild fires, yeah. It was terrible, back a few years back. So the house is gone. Now, was your job there pretty much the same as it was when you were in Fort Campbell, doing the same kind of thing? (44:47) Again, you’re assigned a chapel, you’re assigned a unit, and I was able to minister to the unit, but you know one you’re at that stage you know pretty much what you have to do every day, it’s not full of stress. It wasn’t as stressful as what the first few years were and so at that time it was not a stressful thing, what you did as a chaplain: you met other chaplains. You became families, you know, and we had we used to play cards, and we used to do all kinds of things together, you know, chaplains doing things with other chaplains and besides being a chaplain to your troops. So that was a good experience too, you know, I met some really good [people] they’re still my friends, you know, from years back so. Good things while being a chaplain in the military. Now aside from the physical environment, was it pretty much the same kind of experience as you had at Fort Campbell? Well… yeah, there was still the same type of ministry, you know again they, your troops, had still the same kind of problems, the suicidal problems, you know, family problems. The normal situations that, you know, the troops would come to you as their chaplain, you know, and so we always had an open door for them, you know, but as a chaplain you still had to do the runs, you still had to do all those kinds of things and so it was a normal, it was a good thing. I can give you an experience, I just shared this with someone yesterday: we were talking some… I was telling them a little bit about one of my situations while there, I was asked the chaplain and what I did is I’d have a luncheon and I’d have a guest speaker that would come in, and in Colorado Springs Dan Issel, the big Denver Nuggets basketball star, I was able to have him come in and give a speech and had a couple other guys that were US Olympic boxing champions that came in and gave a speech during the lunch hour. So what I did is I would have—get my grills and grill some hamburgers out in the back and so the first time I did this I only had maybe about 10 to 15 guys that were there and I though “Oh, this is pretty good, I could feed that many guys.” so and then they heard about the free lunch the next month, and then they heard about my speaker like Dan Issel, and so I had a full house that day and I said “Oh no, I didn’t realize that I was gonna have this many guys coming for my lunch.” and I didn’t buy a whole lot of hamburgers. I got really �nervous, what am I gonna do? So I’m in the back there and then so I went to the front where the office was at, where the microwave was, up on top of the microwave was this huge platter full of hamburgers. I don’t know where they came from, but somehow they appeared and it’s like, God just gave me all these hamburgers! I believe in the feeding of the 5000, you know? The two fish and two loves, you know, and well I think I just had a miracle happen. Somehow those hamburgers just appeared and I was able to feed all those guys, it was an amazing thing. So that was a good experience with me when I was there. Sometimes you have to believe in some good miracles that do happen and that’s what I believe. All right. Anything else from that particular stint that stands out in your memory? Nope, but again it was a great experience other than, you know, Colorado Springs is a beautiful place. All right, so what year did you finish up there then? (49:10) That was in 1990. Oh, the other thing is that we were able to go to Honduras and we were able to be there for—we did some training at Honduras and we took our unit there for like a couple months and during that training exercise, up until the very last day the training exercise went very well but the very last day we had one of the Jeep soldiers went down the hill and was killed, and that was a sad thing for us as a unit. We were going back and we thought everything was going great, and then at the very end somebody, you know, and so I had to minister to my Commander, you know, cause he was just. He couldn’t understand why those things happen like that, and so as a chaplain you have the troops and then you also have the ministry to your own commanders when things like this happen, so. Yup. Okay. All right, now what time of year did you move on then from Fort Carson? Well, 1990 cause I was getting ready to end my 3 years. Then I had to have an assignment, well my home was Michigan of course, and so the opening for Selfridge came up and I thought “Oh, I’d love to go to Selfridge, it’s my home state.” and so then I came to the Selfridge Air National Guard Base which is in Mount Clemens, north of Detroit about 30 miles, and they had assigned housing and I was at the main chapel there and I was the chaplain there at the chapel plus, you know, doing other kinds of things. So at that time I did a lot of weddings, you know, got asked. I did that, at that time many weddings, I could have a wedding one day and a funeral the same day, you know, there were a lot of different things I was kept really busy being there in the chapel. I was known as the Protestant chaplain, and then we had a Catholic chaplain, so Protestant and Catholic but that again was 3 years and was a good ministry there, too. Okay, Selfridge is an Air Base. �Right. So what's an army chaplain doing at an air base? Well, again, they at the Selfridge Air Base, they have the Navy, they had the Navy Reserves, they had the 127th Air Force, and then they had the TACOM Army Base and so a lot of the army personnel would work there either on the base or they would work at the, what they call the Tank Automotive Command and the Tank Automotive Command was very instrumental to Desert Storm, they sent a lot of tanks and different things I mean they did a lot of planning, research, my wife also worked there at the plant and she was a—she had top secret clearance and worked for two of the Generals that were there, so she had a really important job there, being there. So that too was a good ministry, kept very active. Now… Saddam Hussein went into Kuwait in 1990. When he went in were you still at Fort Carson or had you gone to Selfridge by then? (52:51) Yeah, that was just as I moved right again. But yes, at that time it was right at that time where I moved from Fort Carson, you know, into Selfridge and so because of the war beginning at that time my unit that was back at Fort Carson was getting ready to go over to Iraq at the time. And of course the Commander called me up and said “Chaplain, we need you, can you help us?” and I had a choice in that so I decided to stay there at Selfridge because I’m already there and, you know, no sense… you know. But, yeah. So I stayed there in the unit there and during the Desert Storm, when that was taking place, I was called and they told me, they said, “Chaplain,” they said, “Now, here’s what you need to understand because we are at war, okay? We need—” what’d they call it, “---a contingency plan if something happens to any of our men, even our Chaplains. We need to know if you’re gonna be ready to go.” and I told them, I said, you know, “Well, what else can you say? You go. I’ll be ready.” but of course we know that it didn’t happen because the war was very quick, so what happened right after the war then is my—the communities that were in the Selfridge area, they would give me a call because I was in active duty, they said, “Can you come over and talk to us? You know, we have troops that are gone and what are we supposed to do? How can we go about doing the right things for these men? Because, you know, Vietnam did not do the right thing and we wanna make sure we do the right thing for us when they come back.” So I gave them some ideas on how to do that and they did it very well, they were happy for that. What kinds of things did you recommend? Well, of course you gotta be there when they fly in at the airport, starting right from when they come into the airport you have to be there. You know, and be there to walk them home, you �know, make sure the families are there, that you as your community, you help those families and you’re there for them, too. The community needs to let them know that you’re there to help them and to support them. Now were there any units from Selfridge or that area that actually deployed? Or were you looking to just individuals from different units? (55:30) Well, at that time I don’t think there was, at the time that there was, not that I am aware of. Though the Air Force was not only involved in it but they were of course, they were on stand-by like everybody else was. And you did have people from the different communities who were in different units, some of them served and then came home. Oh yes, most definitely from the National Guard, that kind of thing yeah. And also they were, like, active duty in other units too so they were from the community but they were serving in, you know, other areas. So that was important, and they did have a good welcoming I thought, they did that well. Selfridge was very good at that and the Commanders. So we were good and helping that. All right, and did you work with people from different branches of the service there? Did you have the airforce people or the Navy people come to your services or did you coordinate with their chaplains? Sure. Well, the Navy had a naval reserve over on the other side of the air field and then with the Marines, we had the marines, we even had the woman’s with a WAC—different units we had, so they were all there. The Navy chaplain in fact, they had a Navy Reserve chaplain, he came over and helped me at the chapel, so we shared the chapel duties together. So when we were at the chapel we had good coverage, you know, if I wasn’t gonna be there somebody was gonna be there to help out and assist in that. So, yes…. Oh, yeah, I remember something we did have, I remember. There was a couple during the Desert Storm just as they were getting ready to start. The night before there was a couple that had gotten married and of course both of them went and they were transferred and I remember, yeah, that was an interesting thing, yeah. And in fact what happened was the night of Desert Storm we had a prayer service and we all know that this was gonna happen the next day, so we called the community together and we said, “We’re gonna meet here at 7 o’clock, we’re gonna have a prayer service, we know that things are gonna be happening tomorrow, the world’s gonna be changing. So, when we did that, at 2 minutes to 7 there wasn’t one seat that was empty. They were in the audiences, all around in that chapel, they were packed and they were there for that prayer service and so we let in that prayer service. We had a tree, a Christmas tree, during that time that was like right after Christmas and our chapel �had 9 Christmas trees scattered all over the chapel. We had 1 tree that was still there and we called that the peace tree, and that tree was still there even after Desert Storm ended, we kept that tree there to remind us that, you know, our nation is to be a nation of peace. So it was… yeah. Some memorable moments during that time. All right. And then when did you complete that assignment? (59:05) Well I stayed until the end of 1992, you know, when my 20 years was up—well actually when I was active duty my 3 years, I had to go and so I had to leave the service active duty because I didn’t get promoted, that was the main reason. You have to get promoted, you know, and if you don’t then they’ll say they’ll give you your walking papers, but then of course they’ll say “You can’t be on the active duty anymore, but we want you to join the reserves.” and that’s what I did. I joined the reserves. Stayed with the reserves there in the community. Okay. The other part of it is that after Desert Storm they had, the first thing they did is they had a Memorial Day parade—ceremony. It’s not a parade, it’s a ceremony, procession. And so in East Detroit they said “We’re gonna have this ceremony but we wanna ask you, can you be in the parade? Cause we want you to be in this parade ceremony here.” and I said okay. And they said, “You don’t understand, we want you to be the Grand Marshal because you did such a wonderful job for us, we wanna show our appreciation to you.” And so I became the Grand Marshal of that parade and then we went to the cemetery, they went from the downtown area over to the cemetery and then at that point there they asked me, “Could you give a speech when we get there?” and I said, “Why yes, I can do that, that’s pretty simple.” So as I’m speaking there was someone in the audience, okay, the person that was in the audience that was there who heard me was running for Commander for the American Legion. To be in the American Legion you have to be in the military and so this person, Clifford Mann, was getting ready to be the state commander. So, this happens, you know, they campaign during the summer and so he didn’t really—he didn’t have a chaplain so he asked me if I would become his chaplain, okay? So, I did, so in August I started my—August of ‘91 and I started in the [unintelligible] at the American Legion as the State Chaplain, and then the next year a new commander comes on board and asks me if I would be their chaplain. This happened 15 years straight. For 15 years straight I was the State Chaplain for the American Legion, and during that time you travel a lot, meet a lot of people and become a lot of friends later on, you know, it’s kind of like my ministry with the veterans. Right. �Now, I went from military to veterans and so now I have a new chapel role in the American Legion State Chapel. While there I did do a lot of articles once a month, I did funeral services for people, I did weddings, you know. And… but after the 15 years was over with, the next year it came time for them to choose the National Chaplain, and Michigan had a National Chaplain in about 20 years older, and so now it’s kinda like Michigan is starting to have a new leader come from Michigan. When you’re in the American Legion they choose state chaplains from a state, every year a new state, so finally it’s kinda like coming close to Michigan’s time to have a National Chaplain. Well, I was selected for that and during that year was an awesome years, I had to do some wonderful things. So what does a chaplain do, whether for the state or nationally. You travel around a lot but what are you doing? (1:03:30) Oh, as a state chaplain? Yeah. Well again, you give a lot of speeches. A lot of services. You know, one of the things the chaplains, one of the things the American Legion does well is they honor the four chaplains and in February, the first Sunday in February is what we call Four Chaplains Sunday, and so I did a lot of those services talking about the Four Chaplains, we did services and they still do them today, the American Legion, around the state. They have those services. Grand Rapids does one here really well, we have a really good community that puts that on together every year around the end of January, close to February, we honor those four chaplains for the ones that during Desert Storm and World War II, we remember they gave life jackets away. And each of those chaplains represented a certain faith; one was Catholic—there was a Catholic chaplain, there was a Jewish chaplain, there was a Methodist chaplain and then there was a Presbyterian chaplain. The four chaplains. And because of what they did and the heroic efforts that they tried to honor those men, still today after all these years, when the submarine the Dorchester was torpedoed and there were like 600 and… at the time there were 900+ men that were on that ship, of the 900 there were 638 I think is the number that were killed during that time. And so there were survivors— Oh, wait. There’s a really famous torpedoed ship at the end of the war, it was the Indianapolis. Dorchester is the name of a small British anti-submarine vessel that was torpedoed off of North Carolina. Yeah, that is the one. �But that would only have—that had British service men on it and it was small. So this sounds like the Indianapolis. It was torpedoed by the Japanese at the end of the war, and… No this was more towards the middle of the war. Okay. Yeah, I believe in ‘42, yeah. It wasn’t the Indianapolis but I know which one you’re talking about. Right, I’m guessing by the size of the ship, the number of people in the crew and so forth because I’m not sure there was a USS Dorchester… Yup, that’s what the name of it was. Okay. I’ll go look it up. Yup, it’s called the USS Dorchester and it was torpedoed by the Japanese up in the Greenland area. Well by the Germans, probably, then. (1:06:26) Oh, that’s right, yes it was. Germans, yes! Not by the Japanese. All right. So yes, look that up because it’s a famous story about these 4 men and again, the civil honor they give medals and everything for them. Okay. All right, now as a national chaplain how was that different from just being the state chaplain? Okay. Well, again, as a national chaplain you are asked to do, you know, for national meetings you give prayers and I was able to travel around all of the United States. I was able to go to St. Louis, New Orleans and I did some Four Chaplain services there. The other part of it is, the highlight of one of the chaplain duties, is offering the prayer in congress and also in the senate if you’re able to. I was able to do both: both the congress and the senate, and that was a wonderful experience. The other part of it is the, in the American Legion we have what we call Boys State and what we call Boys Nation, and Boys Nation meets right after Boys State, we here just next week, Grand Valley will be doing Boys State. But they are the Boys State will select two �representatives out of the Boys State, the 280 some that are there, will select two to go to Washington, D.C. to represent Michigan to be at Boys Nation. And so if you’re the national chaplain you get to go there, have a chapel service with them and meet with them and then they lay the wreath at Arlington and as a chaplain you go there with them. I have pictures of me doing the laying the wreath with their National Commander during that time. So, some wonderful things you’re able to do. All right, now while you were doing that, I mean that chaplain assignment was not really a full time job was it, you had other work that you were doing? (1:08:42) Oh yeah. I had—yeah. The nice thing about being the chaplain: they will pay for your expenses, okay, of being an actual chaplain. Of course, you know, they’ll pay for your airfare, then if you have to they’ll give you an honorarium, and that’s about it. But really it’s a volunteer position. And now did you go back to being a pastor or what did you do? Well I was still, at that time I got selected to go to the VA and Ann Arbor, and so back at that time—what was it, 2009, I was hired at the VA in Ann Arbor and just completed my 10 years there at the VA in Ann Arbor. It’s a beautiful hospital, and so at that time, so I kind of wore the hat as being the national chaplain and being at the VA. Once in awhile you get asked to speak in different places and I, some of the churches that I attended I was able to preach and still be a pastor of a little church. I think you, while you were in the Reserves, you had churches though, right? Yeah, little churches that I had, yup. Oh yeah. Some little churches, some big. Okay. All right. That’s another story. All right. And then at what point did you come back to Grand Rapids? Well, just recently this past… as I was contemplating my 5 hats that I wore over in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti area, the other hat that I wore is working with Civil Air Patrol. Okay. And the uniform that I’m wearing is a Civil Air Patrol, it looks like the Air Force but we’re what we call the auxiliary of the Air Force and we do the search and rescue missions. We have… it’s a �wonderful organization for any people that are interested in doing search and rescue work with our cadets and it’s—so I was the, what we call the wing chaplain, that was the state chaplain for Civil Air Patrol and I just, after 6 years I said it’s time to give that up, give it to somebody else, and so somebody else has that now. Okay. How did you connect with the Civil Air Patrol to begin with? (1:11:07) Well, that’s a good question, James. It’s… right after I became national chaplain, after that was over with. The American Legion and the state gave me all kinds of awards and nice appreciations, I was given the honorary State Commander’s position where I’m able to do the things that the other state chaplains do—I mean, State Commanders do. I still [indecipherable]. And so after that was over with I had a VA chaplain who I worked with who was in Civil Air Patrol. He was my boss there then, and so he asked if I wanted to join Civil Air Patrol, so I went to ISA. I had to go to one of the meetings, so I went to the meeting and there were like about q0 guys sitting there and as he’s introducing me to the Civil Air Patrol guys he said, “I want you to meet Larry Vollink, he’s gonna be your new chaplain.” (Vollink laughs.) I didn’t know that! I was quite surprised when he said that, so I became a… you had to go through some orientation to be a Civil Air Patrol chaplain, you have to have the same credentials you have to in the military, you have to have an m. div and it’s, you know, so they select chaplains in the Civil Air Patrol who could still be in the military and have the, you know, credentials. So I became a chaplain there back in 2012. About 6 months later after I became chaplain, the wing chaplain for Michigan had a ministry in Pennsylvania and so he moved to Pennsylvania so now that position is open, so they asked me “Larry, because you’ve been on National status and State status, would you take this position?” and I said, “Okay.” and so then I did that and then I have other chaplains, we have what we call squadrons around the state and in the squadrons we have either chaplains or we have what we call character development instructors, kind of like a chaplains assistant against the classes, and so I recruit those and I, you know I help them with mentoring them or with whatever their needs are. So, just recently did I give that position away to someone else who can do that position very well, and so I’m kind of like in the wings now, I hope in the wings, waiting for other things to happen. Now over the course of almost the past 18 years or so, this country has been involved in conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan and Iraq and so forth, and you’ve done a lot of work with veterans and so forth. What kinds of support have you provided, or what kinds of things have you been involved in to support the veterans coming back from those places? Well, you know, first of all the VA. That’s been my ministry, you know, for… and so, you know, that’s my first #1 focus is doing that. The other things I’ve been able to do is service as a hospice chaplain and I’ve done hospice ministry chaplain work, and so when I do those types of things one of the things I do because I’m a veteran, they always like where would you, you �know, go and help minister to these men who are dying, or women. And so I’ve had ministries in hospice and doing all that, so it’s… you find whatever the Lord wants for you to do and then you do it. And what did you do for the VA? (1:15:18) Right now I’m still in the VA, but when I started out 10 years ago they hired me to help the Catholic chaplain on some Saturdays. He would come in and he would have a really heavy load of people to see and to take off that load they said, “Can you help him out and assist him?” and so I did, I was able to, you know. So I’m still there on Saturdays, every Saturday is my ministry to the VA, but then also because they have other chaplains I was able to help them during the week, during vacation times, any time the chaplain was away and that was many times. They asked me to come in on Tuesday or Monday or whatever during the week or, you know, like for example the chapel services, and I would help minister to them and again, those are while being in the VA because of my background, I am a military chaplain, you know? The other chaplains that we have there have had no experience in the military, so, but you know, they have a passion for them still. They do very well in ministry to the veterans even though I’m the one that can talk the language the best. Now the ones that you’re ministering to, are they now—do you have a lot of younger ones now or these kind of Vietnam era people mostly, or? No not really, most of them are my age right now, or the ones that I see. And it’s… most of, like I said, most of them are, yeah, most of them are with the Vietnam era that I see. Interesting. But I can identify with them very fast. I’ll give you an example: like last week on the Saturday I walked into a female older lady… well actually she’s about my age. And we started talking and found out that she was in the army and that she lived over in the Big Rapids area and she’s going through some problems, some situations, you know, with her leg and so I was able to identify with her because of, you know, when she was in, where she lived and I was able to, you know, have a very effective ministry for her while I was there. And you know, it’s really good that when you’re there, okay, they’ll say to you “Chaplain, you made my day. I appreciate you coming and seeing me.” Okay? When the person says that I get a little emotional and I say “Thanks for letting me be able to have time with you.” The other part of it is too, some share with you too, that there are some veterans there who have had, you know, they have had the heart problem dealing in their own heart because they killed somebody. They actually did kill somebody and they say, “How does God forgive me for this? Can he forgive me for that?” and so those are hard things that they deal with, you know, and as a chaplain you sit and you listen to their story and you try to help identify with them, you know, you try to help them be able to minister to them and help them to say hey, there is a God who does forgive you in this, okay? You answered the call, you did what you were supposed to do, you did it and you were the one �that, you know, God’s gonna help you through this. If he was there then, if he helped you there then, he’s gonna help you here now, in this life. So those are the kind of, you keep that presence with them in their life still. And those are things that I’ve found and talked to veterans even World War II era, they often they know, and they killed someone, especially if it’s maybe just one person it stays with them and haunts them and follows them, and that doesn’t change much from one war to another. (1:19:37) I’ll give you another example with another veteran I met in a nursing home, and I was asked to go see him in the nursing home, and that before I walk in there was his son and daughter-in-law, they were both in there waiting for as I was coming in there and they wanted me to, you know, help do anything I could. So I go in there and I start talking to him, he knows I’m a veteran, well all of a sudden he’s sharing things that the son has never heard before. It’s like, wow, chaplain we never heard these things before, we don’t know what you, you know, said or did but now he’s sharing, you know, his life about some real situations that happened a long time ago and they were very appreciative of that, being able to see him. So people, like I said, they’ll share their stories, you know, wait until the very end almost to do that. I found that. Okay, so if you look back on this extended time you had in the service, overall how do you think that affected you and what have you taken out of it? (1:20:58) As I look back now? Again, I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I’ve seen, like I’ve seen God involved in many of these things that happened, that I believe that God helped me to be there for that person at the right time and so I believe God has used me in His way, you know? That this has been a calling, okay, this has not been a job this has been a calling for me and little did I know that 52 years ago from this church that I’d be where I’m at here, with you, talking to you about these stories. About how God had used me, and so every opportunity that I have to tell others is a good thing, so I appreciate what you’re able to be here and listen to where I’m at with all this. Well thank you very much for taking the time to share the story with me. Thank you. Well, thank you for having me, James, and God bless you too. Alright. Alright, and again we’ll continue to keep our troops in our prayers every day as we are here, our troops are serving wherever they may be. Families are with them too and so as a chaplain we try �to keep that up in the forefront, keep these men in our prayers, always. And women. So thank you. � 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. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context VollinkL2314V Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vollink, Lawrence Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-06 Title A name given to the resource Vollink, Lawrence (Interview transcript and video), 2019 Description An account of the resource Lawrence Vollink was born in the Burton Heights neighborhood of Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he attended local schools and graduated high school in 1965. His father was a deeply religious, poor man with only an eighth-grade education and his mother did not work, but Vollink believed that he lived a comfortable childhood. With the financial help of his grandfather, he attended Great Lakes Bible College and graduated in 1970, becoming a minister. As a minister, Vollink was exempt from the draft and was encouraged to go back to Bible College for his master’s degree so he could become a military chaplain. In 1980, he was admitted into the military as an Army Chaplain at the rank of Captain after attending a reduced Basic Training Course at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. He would console his men over issues such as suicide, depression, stress, and insubordination. After three years at Fort Campbell, Vollink was transferred to Germany where he was assigned to the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command (AADCOM), which had its units scattered all over the country. He then attended a second Chaplain School in the United States for six months before he was promoted to Major and stationed at Fort Carson near Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1990, Vollink was working at Selfridge when the United States invaded Kuwait and made the decision to remain in Michigan instead of deploying with his former unit from Fort Carson. After the conclusion of the invasion, he provided advice to his military commanders on how to better help and receive the troops returning home from deployment. In 1992, Vollink’s twenty years of active-duty service were up, so he joined the Army Reserves. He later became the State Chaplain, and then the National Chaplain, for the American Legion, serving the institution for a total of fifteen years. Afterwards, he joined the Civil Air Patrol as the organization’s Wing Chaplain in 2012 out of Pennsylvania. Vollink also worked smaller jobs for the VA and Hospice while working for the American Legion and Civil Air Patrol. Reflecting upon his time in the service, Vollink believed that God helped him not only to perform his job effectively, but also to be supportive of his men. Thus, he believed the military was his true calling and that he was used as a tool of God to do good in the military. 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