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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

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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

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  • Text: ...ilson It has such few attributes: Comradership of a valorous sort Self-sacrifice and loyalty come to mind And maybe marching music. It's not easy to think of others now Weigh that against the odds: Senseless destruction and waste. Using our resources and Waste of the.young-both friend ...
Wilson, Morley (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2008

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  • Text: ...e but he was– Had a PhD in how the brain works. So his way of explaining this is he says “You know if I said do you know music?” “No, I don’t even know how to read music.” “But if I played Happy Birthday on the piano and hit all these keys and so forth and made a mist...
Lyssy, Walter (Interview transcript and video), 2017

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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 (01:11:47:00) o At the time o...
Johnson, Edward (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2012

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  • Text: ...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 the night before so they could blend in with the snow, and t...
Hinken, Morris (Interview outline and video), 2011

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  • Text: And he did. And that whole process, of him giving voice to this lament, of using music and finding the supportive community, did what no medication could do for him, no therapy could do. And he is doing well now. I mean, he's doing well. I spoke to him a few weeks ago, actually.
Antal, Christopher (Interview transcript and video), 2021

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  • Text: ...rsonality you were able to sit it on, Bob Hope or any of those people? Mary Jean: Uh, Fred Waring I remember. 38:00 It was a music show. I can’t remember any of the others. We saw Oklahoma, standing room only. [laughs] And after I met my future husband, we would go to New York and take in...
Brooks, Mary Jean (Interview transcript and video), 2007

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  • Text: ...you just had to keep practicing all the time. So, I took up keyboard. And I really enjoyed that. And I could make, you know, music sound pretty nice. But anyway, that was…But then, you know, things started to go. My eyes—I couldn’t see as well as I used to be able to. So… Interviewe...
Adams, Rita (Interview transcript and video), 2021

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  • Text: ... his farm home–– [something] his farm home–– and he was singing up a storm. An opera song, you know, they love opera music. He was just as happy as you could get. 24-hours later he had his wife and his two kids with him. I could see this as if I’m looking at a television screen–...
Erickson, Floyd (Interview transcript and video), 2017
Roger Talmadge started college at the University of Maryland in the fall of 1967. He attended college while also working at Fort Holabird. Roger was promoted to major in 1968. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree in computer science in June 1969. Roger was then transferred to Frankfurt, Germany in 1969 to take charge of Army Security there. He remained in Germany until July 1971. Roger and his wife Charlotte created a travel company while in Germany that they called ‘The Red Bull Express.’ They traveled throughout Europe with soldiers and their families via the travel agency. Roger was sent to do a second tour in Vietnam in July 1971. He was stationed in Saigon, Vietnam and worked at the United States Agency for International Development in management. He left Vietnam in July 1972. While in Vietnam, he was engaged in various projects throughout the country, including rescuing Vietnamese orphans during an Easter offensive early in 1972.
Talmadge, Roger (Interview transcript and video, part 3), 2017

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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