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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Morley Wilson (01:28:03) (00:15) Background Information • • • • Morley grew up in a small town in Northern Michigan and went to school in Cadillac His father was a farmer, working a small plot of land and he really enjoyed livi...
Wilson, Morley (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2008

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Notes Length: 13:56 Randolph Elbert Phillips Jr. Vietnam Veteran United States Navy, February 1963 to August 1968 A-Branch (00:26) Pre-enlistment/Family: • Due to poor grades in college he joined the Navy • J...
Pimm, John (Interview outline and video), 2008

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  • Text: ...Well, I had an uncle that was in at that time and I kind of idolized him. I had a dad who was a WW I veteran and who was a Dutch immigrant. He was red, white and blue and things like Memorial Day and any holiday was sacred. 1:45 I guess it was ingrained and I guess I, for some reason or oth...
Sikkel, William (Interview transcript and video, 1 of 2), 2007

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  • Text: ...I went home and the first thing I did was register for the draft and they gave me a discharge Veteran's rating. So I could have quit the war, I could have gone into farming, I could have gone into business, I could have done anything. But I recovered from malaria eventually - it took m...
Ken Jernstedt interview (video and transcript, 5 of 6), 1991

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  • Text: ...NTERVIEW BOB ANDERSON Born: August 1948, Kalamazoo, Michigan Resides: Ada, Michigan Interviewed by: James Smither PhD, GVSU Veterans History Project, Transcribed by: Joan Raymer, August 24, 2012 Interviewer: Bob, can you start us off with some background on yourself? To begin with, where a...
Anderson, Robert (Interview transcript and video), 2005

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project World War II Alexander Gorashko Length of Interview (02:06:27) Background Born in Saginaw, Michigan; 1st generation American, son of Russian immigrants Father owned a grocery store Born in1924 Father eventually sold the store and bec...
Gorashko, Alexander (Interview outline and video), 2009

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  • Text: ...Harold Harig of Wyoming, Michigan. The  interviewer is James Smither of the Grand Valley State University Veteran’s  History Project. Now, Mr. Harig ,can you begin by telling us a little bit about  yourself? Just start with where and when you were ...
Harig, Harold (Interview outline and video), 2009

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project World War II Sid Lenger Interview Length: (01:15:19:00) Pre-enlistment / Training (00:01:37:00)  Born in Wyoming, Michigan in 1918 above a shoe store (00:01:37:00) o At the time, his family had a pot-belly stove in the livin...
Lenger, Sidney (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2011

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project World War II Sid Lenger Interview Length: (01:15:19:00) Pre-enlistment / Training (00:01:37:00)  Born in Wyoming, Michigan in 1918 above a shoe store (00:01:37:00) o At the time, his family had a pot-belly stove in the livin...
Lenger, Sidney (Interview outline and supplemental video, 2 of 2), 2011

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview World War II Bernie Link Length of interview: 01:02:42:00        Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1925 (00:00:53:00) His parents immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1923 along with his older b...
Link, Bernie (Interview outline and video), 2005

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  • Text: Grand Valley State University Veteran History Project Francisco Vega Part 2 (46:44) Interviewer: “We had gotten in your story up to the period of the Battle of the Bulge and we want to talk about that.
Vega, Francisco M. (Interview transcript, video, and papers, 2 of 3), 2008

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  • Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Ester Maxine Warber (00:59:10) (00:14) What is your full name? Ester Maxine Warber (00:20) Where were you born? Grand Haven Township, MI, near Grand Haven City (00:30) What is your birth date?
Warber, Ester (Interview transcript and video), 2004