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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans’ History Project Lin Bashford Vietnam War 1 hour 15 minutes 40 seconds (00:00:25) Early Life -Born in Scott’s Bluff, Nebraska, on August 20, 1946 -Moved to Wyoming when he was two years old -Father worked for the Bureau of Reclamation -Attended hig...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview World War II Walter “Red” Graham Total Time – (02:11:00) Background · His father was born in Lowell, Michigan to English parents and his mother was born in Ohio (00:03:20) o His mothers family is supposedly related to ...
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview World War II Milton DeVries, Albert Lobbezoo and Andrew Dykstra 53:58 Introduction (00:42) Milton DeVries, is from Wyoming, Michigan and was in the 32nd Division, 127th Regiment, Company F.
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Steven Faine (1:30:28) Background Information (00:30) • • • • • • • • • Born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 16th 1947. (00:31) He moved to Farmington Hills, Michigan when he was 10. (00:39) His father was a commercial...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Dan Pfeiffer (01:12:48) (1:30) Background Information • Dan was born in Byron Township on December 18, 1931 • He spent his childhood on a farm during the depression • They had nothing extra, but food • Dan spent lots of time hun...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project World War II Delbert Rector Interview Total Time: 1:06:57 Background (00:16) Born in Cedar Springs, Michigan in 1918 (00:38) Lived with grandparents in Grand Rapids after parents got divorced (00:54) Father was a professi...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Glenn Ten Brink (01:30:11) (00:01) Introduction (02:44) Interview Begins: • Glenn TenBrink • Born in Olive Township, Michigan, June 23, 1924. • Grew up on a farm and achieved an eighth grade education. (04:44) Pearl Harbor: • He...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Vietnam & Afghanistan & Iraq Baltazar Martinez Total Time – (02:11:52) Introduction / Basic Training – (00:00:11) Baltazar Martinez was born in Plainview, Texas on August 8th, 1952; he lived there for abou...
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: World War II Name of Interviewee: Tony Urbon Length of Interview: 00:58:50 Background He was born in Grand Rapids in 1917. His dad was a barber. He dad asked him what he wanted to do with himself.
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Larry Van Singel (00:38:52) (1:02) Pre-Enlistment • (1:02) Lived in Byron Center his entire life. He graduated high school in 1965. Vietnam was “on everyone’s mind,” at the time.
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans' History Project Richard Groggel World War II 59 minutes 35 seconds (00:00:33) Early Life -Born on July 22, 1924 in Kalamazoo, Michigan -Born in a house in Kalamazoo -Father worked as a grinder on a machine in the parchment department of a paper f...