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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Charles Weingate (00:46:21) (00:24) Pre-Enlistment • • • • • • • (00:30) Born in West Hazelton, PA Father was a coal miner Moved to Grand Rapids so father could work as a cabinet maker Remembers hardships of Great Depres...
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Charles Windisch (30:55) (00:10) Background Information • • • • • Charles grew up in Allegan County, in Gibson, Michigan His father was a gardener and his mother was a housekeeper.
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Robert Twa World War II Total Time: 1:02:30 Pre-War (0:00:10) • • • • • • Born in Crystal Falls, Michigan, in 1922. His father and mother were both cooks.
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Bertram Zheutlin (25:15) Introduction Zheutlin was born in New Jersey and did undergraduate education at the University of Michigan, then attended medical school at Johns Hopkins.
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran History Project Dr. Jack Sanders (38:50) (00:25) Introduction • Born in St. Louis, Michigan • Lived in Alma most of his life • Able to skip to third grade because he knew how to read. • Played football in high school • Graduated high school in...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Michael Scalabrino (00:35:17) (00:39) Pre-enlistment: • After graduating high school he went to work for Ace Ionia in the west side of Grand Rapids • Went to work for the United States Postal Service after leaving the Ace Ionia fa...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Willard Van Singel (59:58) (01:15) Background Information • Willard was born in 1918 in Grand Rapids, MI • His father was a carpenter, but also had to work on cars during the depression to make extra money • Willard graduated in 1...
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- Text: Grand Valley Stte University Veterans History Project Emil Hurbanis (26:02) Background Information (00:12) Served in the U.S Army. (00:14) Served in the Vietnam War. (00:18) He graduated from Western Michigan University.
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Eldon Hunsberger (00:39:20) (00:20) Background Information • • • • • Eldon was born on a farm in Plainfield, MI He went to college from 1940 to 1941 Eldon had attempted to join the Army Air Corps, but was not accepted because...
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- Text: ... Moved to Potterville in 1992 (1:49:50) Attended several reunions for the USS Dickman (1:50:30) Never joined any veteran’s organization because he is a Mason (1:52:35) Ribbons, medal and photographs shown (1:53:35) ...
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- Description: ...Wayne Keith Davis is a Veteran who served in the United States Army during peacetime from the late 1970s to the late 1980s in Germany and in the United States. Born in 1957, Davis talks about his childhood growing up in Benton Harbor and his summers spent in Alabama visiting his grandparent...
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- Text: ...ater, served on the Chamber of Commerce as a Supervisor of grounds keeping for 4 years • In 2005, got sick and came to the Veteran’s Home (30:35) How Service Affected His Life • Davis said that he got to see parts of the world he otherwise would have probably never seen. • ...