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- Text: ...ichigan • Went to Warren Fitzgerald Junior High and High School • (2:10) Played saxophone in the band-very interested in music • John says his IQ 176 • Graduated with a 3.9GPA-didn’t study (4:00) University of Michigan 1966 • Music Major • John talks about his study h...
![Salistian Jr., John (Interview outline and video), 2007 Salistian Jr., John (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/6d058545ad7a86dd198fc287cb2f160d.jpg)
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- Text: ...nge that the people trying to kill you in war don’t even know you; hard to rationalize and justify (00:17:45) Uses his music to get through his struggles after the War; needs to focus on something else (00:18:40) Gets better over the years, easier to deal with Might be ...
![Jones, Bert R., II (Interview outline and video), 2008 Jones, Bert R., II (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c44a420d4bfdde9cebce09bdbbaaa952.jpg)
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- Text: ...Lived with his mom in the same house for 57 years before selling it. From an early age he loved music. Went to grade school and high school in Berkley. Graduated Berkley High School in 1965. Briefly mentions his sports activities in school. (03:10) Pre-enlistment Years (03:15) • Dean me...
![Dean, Douglas G. (Interview outline and video), 2007 Dean, Douglas G. (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/533427d4655e2ded132bc207e671aacd.jpg)
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- Text: ...arged. (6:00) While working he had been exposed to Black service members from the city who he recalled would always play music they commonly heard in New York. He did not care for it. (7:20) Arapaho and Apaches where also enlisted in the military and often these two groups would get...
![Fortier, Harry L. (Interview outline and video), 2011 Fortier, Harry L. (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/1b9ecc71f3aa1e4e262f060db79e67f5.jpg)
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- Text: ...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 liked the drinking and all that, but to me the music was the most—the g...
![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: ...They actually required me to take four or five days off and I stay right there in base 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 fort...
![Brinn, Joseph (Interview transcript and video), 2010 Brinn, Joseph (Interview transcript and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/f94fb7ed75d8c69ff25eed70394df60e.jpg)
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: ...Why don‟t you wear 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 C...
![Sefton, Mary B. (Interview transcript and video), 2005 Sefton, Mary B. (Interview transcript and video), 2005](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/9b2ac3e2f58429dd65249f83f7650bc3.jpg)
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- Text: ... 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 there was perceived to be a large amount of racial tension amongst the soldiers (00:42:06:00) o A couple of months later, Robert Kennedy ...
![Groothuis, Larry (Interview outline and video), 2011 Groothuis, Larry (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/5562568785d1bad69cb7e85003ca7ccb.jpg)
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- Text: ...“Where have you been?” “Well, I’ve been 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...
![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: ...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, country music fan, but here I am in the middle of these guys, you know. Interviewer: What kind of backgrounds did they h...
![Whipple, Bruce (Interview transcript and video), 2011 Whipple, Bruce (Interview transcript and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/01a9b72c8e38b8bf64dc9851d46395c0.jpg)
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- Text: ... and build as the enemy, so the elephants paid them little attention (00:42:51:00) The enemy was very laid back; they played music, sang, had campfires going and were cooking food (00:43:00:00) o Some units moved very quickly and expediently and they ate on the move and other units, especia...
![Hodges, Jim (Interview outline and video), 2010 Hodges, Jim (Interview outline and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7027e481a98279f4ccde70b8bec2d618.jpg)