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- Text: ...Alright. So, had you gone to college already before medical school? Veteran: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. Veteran: I had two and a half years of pre-med. Interviewer: Okay. Veteran: You know? Interviewer: Alright. Veteran: And that’s what I used later on with the Na...
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- Text: Is that right? Or…? Veteran: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. Veteran: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. Veteran: Yeah, right exactly to the day. But the night before I was leaving, it was scary because there were a lot of rounds…That’s what I hear.
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- Description: ...ucceed in her education that she didn’t have earlier as a community college student. She now wants to make sure that other veterans know about the resources available to them as they transition from military life to college life. She is an intern with the GVSU Veterans Network. S...
- Text: ...e to personally direct them, and have them involved because Marq, who works with Steven, that’s his main job; to work with veterans, specifically. And he’s a veteran also so there’s this sense of, like community there, and you know “oh yeah, you’re a part, like, you under...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Rocco J. Farano (00:41:00) Brief Introduction • Rocco was born in Troy, NY near Albany. He was enlisted in the military at age 18. (1:05) • Rocco was a student prior to his military career. (1:18) • Started out military ...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans' History Project Edward Benjamin World War II 2 hours 53 minutes 36 seconds (00:04:50) Early Life -Born in a house on the corner of Fuller Avenue and Hope Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan -Note: Most likely born in December in either the late 1910...
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- Text: ...For them it was like an act of treason. Nobody really liked you back then if you were a veteran. So… I just didn’t tell people I was a veteran anymore. Went on to graduate school, I didn’t tell anybody. I used my GI bill to go to college and then graduate school, but didn’t...
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- Text: ...Use any kind of an image that will work. But it is the movement from I am not God to God is, and as the veterans of the A.A. movement say, if one can take that step, in other words, if one can come to an awareness that God is, that Ultimate Mystery of all things, and if one can trust that p...
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- Text: ...Rhem Page 4 This is Memorial Day weekend, and yesterday there was dedicated a grand memorial to the veterans of World War II. Perhaps you caught it on the television screen, old, aged veterans now with canes, wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, many of them weeping as they remembe...
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- Text: ...Heirs to those who struggled and quested, we are old-timers at disappointment, veterans at sorrow, but always, always prisoners of hope. The hope is the anthem of our people (Hatikvah), and the way of our people. For all the reversals and all of the stumbling-blocks, for all the blood and a...
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- Text: ...ey didn‟t use the term park in those days, cause that‟s an automobile term, but anyway would stop somewhere right around Veterans Park there and we would watch the Veterans march past and of course in the very early days of my recollection why a few of the Civil War Veteran...
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- Text: ...have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life.” As I was thinking about that, I thought I’ve heard veterans interviewed in the documentaries that are on television these days, some who have said there will never be another battle like it. There will never be anothe...
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- Text: ... the Jewish community that we have been "heirs to those who struggled and quested, we are old-timers at disappointment, veterans at sorrow, but always, always prisoners of hope." There’s an image for us. That’s the promise of Easter. If you’re following in the way of Jesus, ...
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- Description: ...Robert Robson is a military veteran who was born and raised in Grand Rapids. He signed a contract with the navy in 1962 and spent 4 years in active duty and 2 years in the inactive reserves. He has a lot of memories from his time in the navy and talked about his views on the military and be...
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- Text: ...alley State University Special Collections Date: 10/26/2011 Biography and Description Robert Robson is a military veteran who was born and raised in Grand Rapids. He signed a contract with the navy in 1962 and spent 4 years in active duty and 2 years in the inactive reserves. He ...
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- Text: ...Well the thing is people, I mean sports and spokes and paraplegic news are sister publications from the paralyzed veterans of America and I’ve written for both of them. FAORO: Are you a Veteran? LICHON: No. I wish it was that honorable. No, car accident. And s I can talk about th...
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- Text: ... sister, Lola, also was a teacher, and she married Richard Bierschbach, who worked for Steelcase • His brother, John, is a veteran of the Vietnam War and now has a sawmill business, and his wife is also a teacher • Walter’s father died in 1985, and his mother died in 2006 5 ...
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- Text: ...And there was a Colonel [Loomis K.] Bishop lived on the corner [now 457 Paris] and he was a Civil War veteran and he‟d been made the postman officer, post master here in Grand Rapids as an award for you know-there was-the political assignments of that kind often were given to military men...
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- Text: ...So Taylor must be in that direction. But we went past what we call the Soldiers Home, it‟s now called the Veteran‟s facility, and out to a pavilion that, that was there near the bridge that did cross over to the west side. Now that, that bridge was way out at Comstock Park. So Taylor mu...
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- Text: ...ted out at Allegan General Hospital, and she worked at 1|Page various places. When she retired, she retired from Michigan Veterans Facility. [Lin] Oh. [June] And then my father was an engineer. He went to college in Angola, Indiana. He was what they call--Uh, a job shopper, or enginee...
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- Text: ...One was the” Major Watson” and the other was the “Hazel A. Major [Amasa B.] Watson” was a prominent Civil War veteran here and he lived in a big house down where Jacobsen’s downtown place is now. The “Hazel A.” was named for Hazel Amberg. They were a very prominent family here...
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- Text: ...That property went way back to a family named Purdy… KK: Okay… RF: Uh, Erastus Purdy he was a civil war veteran and he, he owned that property and they had a landing down below, on the river uh, and a man named uh, one of his sons [inaudible] Purdy they had a boat named after him, and u...
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- Text: ...That property went way back to a family named Purdy… KK: Okay… RF: Uh, Erastus Purdy he was a civil war veteran and he, he owned that property and they had a landing down below, on the river uh, and a man named uh, one of his sons [inaudible] Purdy they had a boat named after him, and u...
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- Text: ...And later he was made head of the Soldier‟s Home, out on the North end where the Veterans are now. It was the Soldiers‟ Home and he was demoted, well he was Colonel because that was the actual title that went with that home, that office. They were quite a colorful family, I think, and I...
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- Text: ...ne year, and finished my courses there, and graduated, so to speak. I stayed in Chicago and worked for the Red Cross, in the Veteran‟s Hospital for several years. Then Catherine Murray, who I mentioned several times, she said to me one day, “Let‟s go to Europe”. So I resigned my job...