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- Text: . A veteran officer said, “that was a heavily trained group of militia terrorists that attacked us,” describing the rioters with two-way radios and bear spray in the crowd of clownish doofuses, and said rioters called him the n-word repeatedly. The outgoing
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- Text: ?). We watch the weekly area competition and I have enjoyed the extra judges brought in on Fridays. They are all either veterans or people associated with the Second World War. It seems to me that Britain is stuck in their past glory days and unable
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- Text: of a Scientific America lecture series with Insight Cruises. Craig was contracted to lecture on Big History. I had no idea what to expect. I had friends who were veteran cruisers and they told me I would love it. I wasn’t sure. To board the ship we flew to Hong
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- Text: on the corner [now 457 Paris] and he was a Civil War veteran and he‟d been made the postman officer, post master here in Grand Rapids as an award for you know-there was-the political assignments of that kind often were given to military men. And Colonel
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- Text: of trouble since I run the veteran’s history project, but we won’t worry about that now right here. So, were you in the army or? (MP): Air Force for those four years. (JS): Air Force for four years, alright, and for four years then let’s see, were you
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- Text: to North Park. So Taylor must be in that direction. But we went past what we call the Soldiers Home, it‟s now called the Veteran‟s facility, and out to a pavilion that, that was there near the bridge that did cross over to the west side. Now
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- Text: worked--Uh, she started out at Allegan General Hospital, and she worked at 1|Page various places. When she retired, she retired from Michigan Veterans Facility. [Lin] Oh. [June] And then my father was an engineer. He went to college in Angola
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- Text: , were these two steamers. One was the” Major Watson” and the other was the “Hazel A. Major [Amasa B.] Watson” was a prominent Civil War veteran here and he lived in a big house down where Jacobsen’s downtown place is now. The “Hazel A.” was named
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- Text: was General McGurrin, a general in the Army during the War of 1812. Oh, the war, Spanish-American War. The Spanish-American War. And later he was made head of the Soldier‟s Home, out on the North end where the Veterans are now. It was the Soldiers‟ Home and he
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- Text: an Officer Candidate School there? (DF): I was. OCS in Newport, Rhode Island. (JS): Well, since you are talking to the Director of the GVSU Veteran’s History Project, I’m going to have to ask you a few questions about that. What did your training program
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- Text: a lapse of one year, and finished my courses there, and graduated, so to speak. I stayed in Chicago and worked for the Red Cross, in the Veteran‟s Hospital for several years. Then Catherine Murray, who I mentioned several times, she said to me one day
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- Text: give to the organization. And they were really flexible about that, so within education if I was interested in doing, what about programming for new people? Okay. What about veterans? What about trustees? It’s actually how I ultimately would get
