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- Text: ...Well, he was partially right because he died before I got back to the States. But then we went up to - Jim Music, I met him on the train, he and I went up together to San Francisco and they had reservations for us in a hotel there I've forgotten the name now, but we stayed there for se...
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- Text: ...When those things hit you - whew - I didn't stop for anything - just get that door open and get the music roll and get going'. What we had was a private garden, you know out there they use human feces all the time and our doctors inspected and claimed it was all right and that...
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- Text: ...amored of getting serious, but it was fun. He was a very good dancer and I had a good time with him. We didn't play our music so much down in Rangoon because of the environment, the mosquitoes and everything else, it was just so crude, but we did enjoy each other's company. We wou...
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- Text: ...ed Bayreuth, Germany, the town where the famous German composer Richard Wagner had died, and the men ended up staying in the music hall that Wagner had built (01:44:56:00) The first night the men billeted in the music hall, Van Luyn was outside when a German plane began strafin...
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- Text: ...HARRINGTON: That was the party… FRANK BORING: The last party where you played musical chairs or something like that. Were you at that? J. J. HARRINGTON: I've got to say something about the Madam because she was a wonderful lady. FRANK BORING: Let's get that little bit fir...
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- Text: ...I read his diary and he has more damn time off then I ever thought. I'll get you R. T. He used to listen to a lot of music I think. But the fellows, we worked together because the crew chiefs and everybody, everybody was working there is no doubt about that. Of course the pilots when t...
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- Text: ...tle Creek, when these fellas would carry our luggage to the hotel, you know from the bus into and up to our rooms, we played music because we liked the rhythm and blues music and they use to hangout in the halls with us and that was a lot of fun. It was almost like you were dating ...
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- Text: ... downtime sleeping and eating -He got a reel-reel recorder through a friend that took an R&R in Japan -Used it to record music on the radio at the USO Club -Martha Ray came in as part of the USO to perform for the troops -There was a base theatre that showed movies (00:40:38) Living Con...
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- Text: ...-Troops had been deployed out of Fort Knox to deal with riots in the cities -He stayed in the day room and played music to pass the time -Majority of black soldiers and even some white soldiers didn’t want to go to the cities -Discharged in August 1968 -Army encouraged him to leave (01:05...
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- Text: ...(laughter) Now that was another word I saw yesterday. I absolutely don’t ever remember hearing that word, except in the “Music Man,” there is a line where the music man talks about “swell’’ and something else. But in my yearbook, that word is all over the place. You kno...
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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...
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- Text: ...after the Air Force -Worked at a variety of short term jobs after he completed his time in the Air Force -Worked at Voice of Music in Benton Harbor, Michigan -Continued his work with electronics there -Got a job at Lear Siegler Aerospace Research Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan -Worked the...
