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- Description: He served as a cook at bases in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Oklahoma. When he completed 6 years he returned home and married another veteran.
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- Text: ...Iraq right now (31:20) After the service • Steve married after he was out of the service at 27 years old. • He married a veteran of the service and had two children • He has since divorced and is living in the Veterans Home in Grand Rapids, where his children live. • (35:00...
![Collison, Steven (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2007 Collison, Steven (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7f028bf984a39f4aa2e5a022f85b42bf.jpg)
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Steven Collison (2nd interview) Total Time: 41:50 Childhood and Pre-enlistment (00:25) • • • • • Born in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1961. Quit high school for a half of a semester, but went back to school.
![Collison, Steven (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2008 Collison, Steven (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/57e80fb65818e43595f8adef587beb0c.jpg)
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Jack Valkenier (28:10) Born 1928 December 18th, in the Netherlands Anne Moene Falconeer Born 1925 August 13th Zeeland, near Belgium (00:00) Childhood - Father was a minister.
![Valkenier, Jack and Anne (Interview outline and video), 2005 Valkenier, Jack and Anne (Interview outline and video), 2005](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/be63b4eb66ab790f3f1d9b59ba599369.jpg)
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Eddie MacDonald Length: 35:11 (00:25) Background Information • • • • Eddie was born on a farm in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1936 His father worked for GM and spent time working on their small fruit and dairy farm He we...
![MacDonald, Eddie (Interview outline and video), 2008 MacDonald, Eddie (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/374c6b1911135ec572dabc75b5b11069.jpg)
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- Description: ...Scott Barber is a Veteran who served in the United States Navy for five years from the late 1970s until the early 1980s in California, Iran, Thailand, and Panama. Because of skill and good military record, Barber's unit was assigned to the first rescue attempt of the Iran Hostage Crisi...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Scott Barber (15:43) (0:00) Before the service • Living in Grand Rapids, MI • Enlisted last 3 months of high school • Birthday made him miss the draft by 4 months • Chose to join the Navy because the college benefits, adventure,...
![Barber, Scott (Interview outline and video), 2007 Barber, Scott (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/b90731e56fd80685c3c8b2325162a716.jpg)
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project Interview Gordon Potter Length of Interview (00:38:17) Pre-enlistment (00:00:31) Born 1937 in Byron Center, Michigan His father was in a grocery business, then went into the milk business when it didn’t work out Went to Byron Cent...
![Potter, Gordon (Interview outline and video), 2008 Potter, Gordon (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/44bdf428f271ca3ce6a2dfdde1357167.jpg)
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- Text: ...AL HISTORY INTERVIEW ANNIE MEYER Born: Hancock, Minnesota Resides: Holland, Michigan Interviewed by: James Smither PhD, GVSU Veterans History Project Transcribed by: Claire Herhold, January 20, 2013 Interview length: 22:20 Interviewer: Mrs. Meyer, can you start by telling us a little bit ab...
![Meyer, Annie (Interview transcript and video), 2009 Meyer, Annie (Interview transcript and video), 2009](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/76ecebe0d8596c97f6c85321d06aace6.jpg)
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Cornelia Ooms Interviewer: Frank Boring Transcribed by Emilee G. Johnson, Western Michigan University Length: 41:14 Frank Boring: Well, let’s begin, if you could tell us your full name and where you were born.
![Ooms, Cornelia (Interview transcript and video), 2004 Ooms, Cornelia (Interview transcript and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/6f2bcdb6fc35024b72bd7aaef36cc0a3.jpg)
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- Text: But anyway, all of the organizations that provided the social services support to veterans. Because we, even at that time, had some veterans that were coming back. They had been in Europe early, and why they came back would be an individual story. But, we had the GI Bill.
![Levin, Estelle (Interview transcript and video), 2008 Levin, Estelle (Interview transcript and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/8d3d76a365f84fbeb5482464f02f7689.jpg)