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- Text: ?” Oh yeah, both of them played. Well Janet was more interested in music which she was a good ball player but my youngest daughter was an excellent ball player and she’s a phys ed teacher today. She was an excellent, she could have made the, actually
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- Text: and that was mostly the source for girls. I don’t know how many fellows took it but he went on to Central Michigan then and got his degree for teaching and math and music. And when he went to be in high school for his first job, I went with him for first grade, So
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- Text: , and a couple of the others, but Madonna was—she came and she wasn’t supposed to be in the movie, she was supposed to do the background music, and she got caught up in all of it and she loved it. Being a good friend of Penny Marshall, she said she wanted
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- Text: in Sturgis, but also played music -Died on Christmas Eve when Marshall was seven years old -Everybody was poor during the Great Depression -Made do with what they had -Mother remarried in 1933 -Moved to Benton Harbor, Michigan -Got along well with the black
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- Text: 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 and foe. Impoverishing our heirs with debts They did not contract. Grief and suffering beyond
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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
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- Text: a lot of food. 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
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- Text: 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 some plays when we were still in uniform. Interviewer: Even though
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- Text: a great deal. And I think the church work has permeated through our children because our daughter has become a major in music and both vocal and keyboard, she plays for churches and so forth. Charles Collins: Good! Mary: And our son is a pastor so I think
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- Text: at the country club for all of the officers and arranged it so that all the officers had dates with young ladies from Cape Town (00:36:24:00) Pahl’s date was an Irish lady poet; they were dancing and the band was trying American pop music when they finally hit
James Clark was born in September 1920 in a farmhouse in Wayne County, Michigan. Growing up, Clark had a difficult childhood, including a diagnosis of tuberculosis, moving to Arizona for treatment and back to Michigan, and his family losing their property during the Great Depression. After high school, Clark attended both Eastern Michigan University and Michigan State University before receiving his draft card in 1942. After the Army drafted Clark, he spent two years in different programs before deploying with the 106th Infantry division to Belgium. During the Battle of the Bulge, Clark was wounded and evacuated back from the line for nearly a month before returning to his unit, where he served for the rest of the war. Following the war, Clark attended a school the Army had set up in southern France.
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- Text: pounds while we were at Munschecken and I swore I would never go hungary again. "B" Company sent out several reconnaissance patrols to check the river area. No one was shot and the Germans played music every night and partied while we froze on out post
