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- Text: ...r or not he received it Entertainment and Morale (00:36:48) Mainly played lots of card games for entertainment; also played music, lots of boom boxes; wrote letters Goldrick really encouraged his men to write so they could keep up communication with those back home They received...
![Goldrick, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2009 Goldrick, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2009](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/80e7aaef934a0c1ad8c405204429bc0b.jpg)
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- Text: ...Felt Soul Food should be called “Southern Food” because he ate it growing up too -Why did the base have to play “black music” during Black History Month? -In another class they discussed interracial marriage -Same racist sergeant from earlier opposed to interracial marriage -One fem...
![Turner, James F.A. (Interview outline and video), 2015 Turner, James F.A. (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2d88727073214362a279453842b30deb.jpg)
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- Text: ...e in the rear for a stand down -It was a chance to clean up -Chance to drink beer, eat steak, there was plenty of marijuana, music, and movies -Stand downs only lasted about two or three days (00:58:25) Racial Tensions, Drug Use, and Morale Problems -There were only two black soldiers in hi...
![Vanden Hout, James (Interview outline and video), 2015 Vanden Hout, James (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7ee00b9103001e3a6b61d094818491bc.jpg)
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- Text: ...ar killed off long range radio contact with the outside world -Very isolated in the Gulf -Stayed entertained with movies and music (00:17:17) First Vietnam Deployment-Incidents and Daily Life -Had a helicopter crash into their superstructure -Rotor fractured and exploded and wounded a numbe...
![Carlson, John (Interview outline and video, 3 and 4 of 4), 2011 Carlson, John (Interview outline and video, 3 and 4 of 4), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/affb9f8ba9c85f5f9aae3b6fc26e0020.jpg)
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- Text: ...ar killed off long range radio contact with the outside world -Very isolated in the Gulf -Stayed entertained with movies and music (00:17:17) First Vietnam Deployment-Incidents and Daily Life -Had a helicopter crash into their superstructure -Rotor fractured and exploded and wounded a numbe...
![Carlson, John (Interview outline and video, 1 of 4), 2011 Carlson, John (Interview outline and video, 1 of 4), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/07b5c8c3738ca17090e756a6b8ab87c8.jpg)
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- Text: ...ip and in Japan, he bought turntables, speakers, and recording equipment so that when they were at sea, they could listen to music, mainly rock and roll records (00:18:48:00) o When they pulled into port at Formosa, the records were a dime an album and the men came to Wykstra to play them (...
![Wykstra, James (Interview outline and video), 2011 Wykstra, James (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/fae593a2da2fbb7ca50fadd1af553bac.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)