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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Oral History Interview Veteran: Wallace “Wally” Ewing Interview Length: (24:57) Interviewed by Frank Boring Transcribed by Chloe Dingens Okay, my name is Wallace Ewing, but I usually go by Wally and I was born on September...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans' History Project Gerard Platte World War II 1 hour 43 minutes 12 seconds (00:01:54) Early Life -Born on December 30, 1921 in Grand Rapids, Michigan -Grew up in Grand Rapids -Father was a foreman at Hayes Manufacturing -Had four sisters and two bro...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: Vietnam Interviewee: James Herrick Length of Interview: 00:46:10 Background:  Born May 21, 1947 in Kentucky  Served in Army, highest rank sergeant  Born in Kentucky, he was the front end of the baby boom...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Notes Length: (58:55) Charles Jarocki Persian Gulf War, June 1986 to March 1997 United States Air Force (00:05) Pre-War Training • • • • • • • Enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1986 Was sent to a milita...

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: World War II Interviewee name: Bill Heintzelman Length of Interview (00:47:15) (00:00:12)Pre-Enlistment  Background o Born August 7, 1943, enlisted in 1961. o Born in Grand Rapids, MI, St.

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Jack Baas World War II (1:34:14) Background Information (00:10)          Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1920. He grew up in Grand Rapids. (00:15) He attended Christian schools through the elementary level...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Michael Burton (01:02:14) (00:14) Pre-enlistment: • He was born in Detroit and grew up in Trenton, MI • Went to Grand Valley State College for in 1965 for one year • His Father worked for Ford Motor and his mother stayed home to r...

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Donald Buteyn (01:46:00) Introduction (00:16) Family and childhood (01:46) • Buteyn mentions that he grew up in Wisconsin, about 20 miles south of Fond du Lac.

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• Text: ...He would go into construction, and work with his dad. He stays in contact with other veterans who served, but there aren’t very many left anymore. They also keep in contact with wives and widows as well. (39:10) Most of the guys who had gone in with him were older, so many of them are not...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Douglas Broek (1:00:35) Background Information. (1:34)         Born in Muskegon, Michigan, November 2, 1947(1:40) He is of Dutch decent. (2:00) He was raised in Muskegon and attended at Muskegon schools until hi...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project Korean War Laverne Bivens Interview Length: (00:19:53:00) Training and Service (00:00:27:00)  One day, he received a letter saying that his friends and neighbors had chosen him to serve in the military (00:00:27:00) o This was du...

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Vietnam War Harold Day 38:52 Introduction (00:24)       Harold was born in Ava, Missouri on June 26, 1949. He grew up there with his family that was in the restaurant business along with farming.