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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project Vietnam War Tom Huis Interview Length: (00:00:21:00) Early Life/ (00:00:14:00) Was attending Kellogg Community College before joining the army (00:00:19:00) o Had a draft deferment while taking classes, and after dropping a ...
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Robert Green (00:36:31) Background (00:10) • Born 08/3/1930 (00:10) • Served two years in the army at Fort Carson, Colorado. (00:27) • Grew up in Lowell.
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of Interviewee: Chris Meeuwenburg Name of War: World War II Length of Interview: (01:31:27) (00:30) Background Information Chris was born in Fremont, Michigan and drafted into the Army in 1943 when he was 19 year...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project George Robinson (01:20:37) (00:20) Background Information • • • • • George was born in Allegan, Michigan in 1922 His father worked at Baker Furniture as a factory foreman George graduated from high school in 1942 While in sch...
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- Text: GrandValleyStateUniversity Veterans History Project World War II Jay Lutke (1:05:04) Background Information (00:02) Born in Michigan in May of 1918. (00:02) Jay was inducted into the Army on May 1st (1943) just before his 27th [25th?]
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Elbert Lyles (36:30) Back ground information (00:09) Born May 10th, 1920 in Mississippi. He grew up in the area. (00:10) His mother worked as a maid and housekeeper. (00:30) He was an on...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran's History Project World War II – Pacific Theater Robert Scholz Total Time (01:19:57) Introduction (00:00:08) Robert was born January 16th, 1918 in Quincy, Illinois (00:00:22) His father owned a grocery store and his mother was a nurse (00...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans’ History Project Bernie Windmiller Vietnam War; Cold War 28 minutes 31 seconds *Note: Times in the outline correspond with timecode in interview (01:51:53) Early Life & Enlisted Service -Born on July 3, 1932, in Gary, Indiana -Drafted into the Ar...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project John Kandra (1:15:01) Background Information (00:12) Born in February, 1925 in Beaverdale, Pennsylvania (a small coal mining town)(00:12) His father worked as an electrician in the mines. (0...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project World War II Richard William Groggel Length of Interview (00:43:33) Background and Training (00:00:00) Born July 22, 1924 Served in WWII, France and Germany 1st Lieutenant, highest rank achieved Wanted to join the Marines with four o...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: Vietnam Interviewee: James Herrick Length of Interview: 00:46:10 Background: Born May 21, 1947 in Kentucky Served in Army, highest rank sergeant Born in Kentucky, he was the front end of the baby boom...
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- Text: ...He would go into construction, and work with his dad. He stays in contact with other veterans who served, but there aren’t very many left anymore. They also keep in contact with wives and widows as well. (39:10) Most of the guys who had gone in with him were older, so many of them are not...