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• Text: ...r or not he received it Entertainment and Morale (00:36:48) Mainly played lots of card games for entertainment; also played music, lots of boom boxes; wrote letters  Goldrick really encouraged his men to write so they could keep up communication with those back home  They received...

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• Text: ...after the Air Force -Worked at a variety of short term jobs after he completed his time in the Air Force -Worked at Voice of Music in Benton Harbor, Michigan -Continued his work with electronics there -Got a job at Lear Siegler Aerospace Research Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan -Worked the...

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• Text: ...gainst the gunner shoulder straps as if a strait jacket but he could do anything about it; couldn’t stop self o Then heard music of a hymn “Be Still My Soul” and the most comfortable feeling imaginable fell over him o Crowell was put at ease in the midst of fire and noise o Was relaxe...

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• Text: ...tmas of 1945 he went to Garmsich, which had hosted the 1936 Olympics. • (53:43) While in Munich, he heard beautiful string music. He and other Americans came across a church, and looked inside. They were greeted by angry stares of elderly Germans, who probably assumed they had bombed the ...

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• Text: ...chool on Oahu -Will never forget driving through the pineapple fields on his way to the base -Enjoyed the school -Woke up to music every morning -Informal -Received a lot of gunnery training -Worked with 20mm antiaircraft guns -Trained with .50 caliber machine guns -Worked on a 40mm gun on ...

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• Text: ...we pulled into the train depot at night and they actually had a band out to meet us and I couldn't believe it. Here was music playing and people yelling and greeting us and really trying to make us feel at home. I didn't expect anything like that. I don't know whether I'...

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• Text: ...e in the rear for a stand down -It was a chance to clean up -Chance to drink beer, eat steak, there was plenty of marijuana, music, and movies -Stand downs only lasted about two or three days (00:58:25) Racial Tensions, Drug Use, and Morale Problems -There were only two black soldiers in hi...

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• Text: ...I don’t know where he got located though further on in the Pacific I guess. We had all kinds of good music. Those wonderful songs of WWII were played on the ship radio and I lay in the sun on the deck. Didn’t do much of anything for five (5) days. I got into the presidio and I think I...

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• Text: ...t time in Cuba and spring training in Cuba?” 15:13 I certainly do. Interviewer: “Share them with me please.” There was music twenty-four hours a day in Cuba and it was just wonderful. Music is something that’s very important to me and I loved it. We were taken to eat at one...

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• Text: ...So, I needed to learn about them and I found Saigon a very beautiful, quasi-French town. Great bars and good music. That’s when I first got introduced to rock because I came from Puerto Rico and in 1968 it was not a big thing on the island. The music that we heard there was diffe...

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• Description: William was involved in various skirmishes during his time serving in the Korean War. After the war, he studied music at Friends University and graduated in 1953. William lives with his family in Wichita, Kansas.