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- Text: credit in Music. • Earl went to high school between Garfield and Damascus. • (13:47) His high school had a basketball team but no football team. He was told he should play basketball because he was tall but he didn’t like the sport. He did participate
![Mather, Earl (Interview outline and video), 2008 Mather, Earl (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c24c29ea3dc5c9a2f2c01c89f20a35c6.jpg)
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- Text: -Watched the first performance of Mozart's music since the Nazi occupation -One man in his unit acted as the manager for the performance -Allowed Allan and his friends to watch the performance from box seats (01:33:24) Occupation Duty Pt. 1 -At the end
![Ostar, Allan W (Interview outline and video), 2016 Ostar, Allan W (Interview outline and video), 2016](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/848138b744ec3ee00f0cb33b6a7fa7a1.jpg)
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- Text: there so many times. It was actually the best years of my life. I didn’t have very much money, it was just the whole thing, Amsterdam, it was the start of the music thing—I didn’t—I was just a--I just loved the music, I liked all the women in Amsterdam, I
![Toms, Alan (Interview transcript and video, 1 of 2), 2011 Toms, Alan (Interview transcript and video, 1 of 2), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/125eadc257caf9ab9f29c1d572a3384f.jpg)
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- Text: camp and listen to music, I‟d listen to music and go to the NCO club. 45:00 22 Interviewer: One of the sort of standard critiques, largely cliché, about the soldiers in Vietnam, and so forth, is they were drinking, doing drugs and doing all sorts
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Joe Lange was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 9th, 1947. After graduating high school, Lange married and briefly attended college before getting a full-time job and receiving his draft notice. After receiving his draft noticed, Lange went through basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky and advanced training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia to be a generator mechanic. Once he completed the training at Fort Belvoir, Lange returned home before deploying to Vietnam to serve for a year in the 124th Signal Battalion of the 4th Infantry Division.
![Lange, Joesph (Interview transcript and video), 2011 Lange, Joesph (Interview transcript and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7c3d4984ff65a54e4d926da1375e7487.jpg)
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- Text: that with that? Straighten up a little bit. Comb that hair.‟” (00:34:33) “What kind of music were you listening to?” (00:34:35) ”Pretty much what anyone else was listening to.” (00:34:41) “Okay. This is like the rock-n-roll era.” (00:34:44) “Credence Clearwater Revival, any
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- Text: and the media portrayed the war in a negative light almost every night and demonstrations at colleges and universities began to increase (00:41:50:00) o When Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, the Army played very soft music for three days because
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- Text: months in the hospital (01:11:12:00) o Because he had been out of touch with home for so long, cultural, everything, such as music, was new to him (01:11:36:00) The adjustment of going from the front line to the “front bed” was a little much for Johnson
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- Text: a lot of food. He wrote home around the time, comparing Christmas at home to his Christmas there. There were no lights, music or food. All they had were K-rations. He also remembers a night when it snowed so badly. They had whitewashed the tanks
![Hinken, Morris (Interview outline and video), 2011 Hinken, Morris (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c2874f30f4ec04415fb0a8f2bec044ea.jpg)
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- Text: in Vietnam”, but now it’s being played on popular music, so there are a lot of things you miss. 49:02 Yeah, there is a lot that I missed, obviously. Interviewer: Now, there are stereotype images of Vietnam and what went on in Vietnam and a certain kind
![Hardiman, Bill (Interview transcript and video), 2011 Hardiman, Bill (Interview transcript and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/60bd104750b284c4e2af7ed94fbb62c1.jpg)
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- Text: Jersey for AIT, which they called Advanced Individual Training, but it‘s Advanced Infantry Training, I mean that‘s all Dix was, and so, I‘m still with all these guys from down south. 19:03 I don‘t like sweet tea and banjo music, and I wasn‘t a country fan
![Whipple, Bruce (Interview transcript and video), 2011 Whipple, Bruce (Interview transcript and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/01a9b72c8e38b8bf64dc9851d46395c0.jpg)