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  • Text: Park Maintenance (21:22) - Never Married, Plenty of GF - Diabetic - Lives in Veterans Home (7mos) - Thankful for Veterans Service - Plans to reenter civilian life  
Burton, Robert Darrell (Interview outline and video), 2007

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  • Description: Harry Bolthouse is a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Army from 1948 to 1949. Although unable to recall much of his service experience, due to his cerebral hemorrhages, he was able to share pieces of his pre-enlistment and enlistment.
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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: Other veterans and civilians Interviewee name: Harry Bolthouse Length of Interview: (00:06:20) Pre-Enlistment  Background o Born in Grand Rapids, 1930.  Family o Had four brothers. o Mother was a ho...
Bolthouse, Harry R. (Interview outline and video), 2009

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Notes Length: 7:35 Daniel John Morley Veteran United States Army; 1987 to1993 (0:00) Life before the service (0:30) West Point Military Academy • 19 years old • Picked West Point because of prestige • Discusses ...
Morley, Daniel John (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2006

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  • Description: During his time in the Army, Jeff drove trucks and continued to do so after being discharged. Jeff currently lives in the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.
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  • Text: ...ransporting computers Jeff began having medical problems and could no longer drive He now lives in the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans (18:35) Marriage    Jeff got married to a woman in Virginia in 1980, but it only lasted one year He was married again in 1985 to a woman from Loui...
Bowman, Jeffery (Interview outline and video), 2007

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of Interviewee: Richard LaVern Smith Name of War: Other veterans & civilians Length of Interview: (00:09:23) Interview Notes Pre-Enlistment -Richard Smith, born in Hilliards, MI (0:20) -Enlisted just after h...
Smith, Richard LaVern (Interview outline and video), 2005

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Interviewee’s Name: Daniel J. Morley Name of War: Other veterans & civilians Length of Interview: (00:16:00) Pre-West Point Born in 1968 in Youngstown, OH (0:06) Went to an all Catholic private school (0:20) We...
Morley, Daniel J. (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2007

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  • Text: He then went to an airline school in Kansas City. (12:11) In 1994 he retired from the airline business. (12:42) He supports the VFW but is not in any veteran’s organization. (12:50)
Christian, Harold (Interview outline and video), 2011

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  • Description: She then got married, moved to Michigan, and completed a degree in psychology, and quickly began working with veterans, and is currently Director of Veterans Affairs in Kent County, Michigan.
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  • Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: Manager of Veterans Affairs, Kent County, MI Interviewee: Carrie Roy Length of Interview: 00:58:48 Background (1:07)           From Deer Lodge, Montana.
Roy, Carrie (Interview outline and video)

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Brian Baar (00:48:00) (00:15) Introduction • Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. • Can remember watching the television when President Kennedy was shot. • Attended school with two of his cousins. • His father was an executive at Ste...
Baar, Brian (Interview outline and video), 2008

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans' History Project James Laidlaw Cold War 14 minutes 59 seconds (00:00:22) Early Life -Born in Detroit, Michigan on December 13, 1938 -Oldest of three boys in his family -One brother died in an accident when he was only ten years old -Grew up in Det...
Laidlaw, James Dennis (Interview outline and video), 2015

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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Greg Glazier (41:12) (00:10) Background Information • Greg was born on April 8, 1967 • He enlisted in the Army in 1985 when he was 18 years old • Greg went to high school in Lansing and has 2 sisters and a brother • He...
Glazier, Gregory (Interview transcript and video), 2007

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  • Description: Freddie Gilbert is a Vietnam War veteran born in1949 in Vermont and was raised in Prairieville, Maryland. In 1969 he was drafted for the Vietnam War and was attached to D Company in 2nd and 506th of the 101st Airborne.
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  • Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans’ History Project Freddie Gilbert Vietnam War 1 hour 23 minutes (00:23) Early Life -Born in Vermont on June 12, 1949 -Grew up in Prairieville, Maryland -Had been adopted by father’s brother (uncle) when he was 5 months old -Biological father was a W...
Gilbert, Freddie (Interview outline and video), 2013