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Debra Juhl Jones-Miller: WAR AGAINST TERROR ... |
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Catherine Browning McFarlane: War & Peace in Our Ain Wee World Here in the ’War and Peace’ Chapter, it seems fitting to slot the story of the character and those around him, who had a major influence on my life and the ... |
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John Keoni Brown: John Keoni Brown December 7, 1941 Japanese Attacks Pearl Harbor the day ... |
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A New Beginning: My daughter Amber. My war was my mother, her husband, his brother and their family. My war was to survire my childhood life without breaking or giving in. My war was to keep fighting ... |
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Kevin Langley: Retired - 20 years in the Marine Corps In the beginning: Joined the USMC in June of 1988 and proceeded to boot camp in San Diego, CA. First duty station was 1st Bn, 7th Mar from Dec 1988 to ... |
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Corrina Cop Rain McFarlane: Healing the Wounds of War, Women and Weans* ... |
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Phil Camacho: Serving in Korea I ... |
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Nadine Zakaria:
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Ron Westerman: I Join the Marines and Survive Pusan, Korea, Atomic Testing, and Flight School Santa Barbara was too much fun, and I was too young, and all the WW2 guys were back. They were serious students and pushed the curve. It was my first real ... |
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Living The American Dream: Three Brothers (to be continued) |
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John Matson: That was aviation electronics and I said I want to fly! I was 9 years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. I remember everything for the next 4 or 5 years, the gas rationing, and all ... |
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Dorothy Gibson: Through The War, He Worked On A Lot Of Things That He Couldn’t Talk About. Bill was never in the service. He was 4F. He’d go down and they would examine him and send him through all their tests and they’d turn him down. He was ... |
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Eugene C. Robertson: Tough Jobs, and Forgotten Heroes Early the war, everyone knew I was an artist. Nylon stockings were unavailable, so girls used an eyebrow pencil to draw a fake seam up the back of their leg. (Stockings ... |
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Dorothy Zeyen: All Through the War We Lived and Worked in Florida So that was, it was very tough. They had classes outside from then on. So I came home, and then I went back and started following him. We couldn’t see each ... |
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Zora Thompson: "When Joe Returned from the War, I Didn’t Recognize Him!" Joe was on board the SS America. The ship had been transformed into a troop carrier. They left in November, and when they got to Hawaii he was probably stationed at ... |
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Val Wiese: During the VietNam War, I Served in France I married a Catholic. I never got a BA. I went to a junior college and then was drafted into the military during the Vietnam War in 1965. At the time ... |
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Than Bischoff: I Join the Navy In 1966, I was 21 years old, and I was married for the first time. I even had a child. We were involved in Vietnam. Some people got college deferments and ... |
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Vern Tucker: "I Think Everyone Should Serve in the Military (But I Don’t Like the Caste System)" After I was engaged to Nancy, I was about to be drafted, and I knew when my number was coming up, so I did the reserves, which I thought was a ... |
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Sylvia Wall: I Went to College While Bob Flew Bob loved flying. He always enjoyed flying an airplane. During the war, I was going to college. That’s when I met my husband; he had been in the Air Force. I remember rationing. |
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Scott Bloom: Long Hair and Bell-bottom Pants: I Was one of Thousands Marching Against the Vietnam War It was during my sophomore or junior year in college when the draft was changed so that you are no longer able to get a student deferment. They had the lottery ... |
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Ruth Sampson: When the Army Rejected Eli, I Said “I’ll take Him!” We were married in June and so then he got called and he tried to join the Marines and they wouldn’t take him and he got called to go to Columbus ... |
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Ron Lyons: I Miss Service in Korea, But Just Barely I had been in reserve officer training core in 1953 and 1954. That was right at the end of the Korean War. I went into the Air Force 1956, and got ... |
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Robert Hutchinson: Between Korea and Vietnam, it was Strange for me not to be in the Service. About three months after I entered school, I was inducted into the military. My examination was in Oakland. When I told my professors that I was being called to serve as ... |
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Robert Ede: I Didn’t Let a Handicap Keep Me from Serving My Country Because of my arm I probably could have been exempted from service during WWII, but I didn’t try it. I was inducted and went in through camp Perry. I was assigned ... |
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Robert Berryessa: In the Air Force, I Get a Free Ticket to France From 1953 to 1957 I was in the military, in the Air Force. I had to wear a blue uniform. Back then, in 1953, if you were wearing a blue uniform ... |
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Rikki Willett: War is beyond what any sane person would think is a good idea. ... |
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Richard Magen: ’Nam, Going AWOL, Doing Jail Time, Smuggling Drugs & Other Adventures I get drafted in 1969. But before that I’d had a great summer. I had been to the Atlantic City pop festival and had seen all the big acts: Jefferson Airplane, ... |
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Ralph Hempfling: I Served Down in Louisiana with the Alligators I was in the Army in ’56 to ’58. So, I spent the bulk of the time in Louisiana, so we did come up. We’d take a couple trips a year ... |
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Ralph Appio: I was in the service in Korea in ’51, above the 38th parallel. I was in the service in Korea in ’51, above the 38th parallel. I was drafted with Waldo. We reported down there on Market St and First. We took our physicals ... |
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Peggy McGovern: Working with Veterans Struggling to Find their Post-Service Identity Well, I taught it when I was teaching I was at Letterman at USF so I worked with Army nurses and I worked with veterans which was interesting. One of the ... |
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Pauline Dora Zeltner: The Only Family of German immigrants It was the Second World War that affected me. We were the only family of immigrants. My parents; they met here, but in that vicinity we were the only ones and ... |
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Niswander & Bowers: One Husband Served, One Didn’t Naomi: My husband did. He ... |
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Bob Stahl: No Draft for Me; the War Was Over I did get a draft number but I was so confused that the time that I don’t know whether I would have gone. As I was growing up I asked my parents: ... |
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Bob Newman: I Serve In England and Africa I wanted to make a personal ... |
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Bertine Hancock: We Were Rationed, but we didn’t Mind It was a very serious ... |
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Bernie Miller: During WWII, I Flew the Famous China-Burma-India “Hump” Route over the Himalayas I stayed in school until June of 1942. Then I got into the Air Force under the Service Pilot Act. I was sent to Mather Air Force base where I took ... |
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Bernard "Barney" Bricmont: During the Missle Crisis, We Were Ready to Go to Cuba! After I graduated from high school I went into the Marine Corps for two years of active duty. I stayed in the marine core reserves for about twelve years after that. ... |
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Anne Phipps: Despite Those Menacing-Looking Fake Guns, We Lose Everything When my mom was a child, she lived through the Blitz. They lost one of their houses and their cricket school. They came home after being gone for a weekend and ... |
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Angelo Grova: While Working as an Undercover Recon Photographer, I Find the Subtle Beauty of the Dominican Republic So I got out of the service during the rebellion with Trujillo, Cuban missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs. So much was happening in South America that no one was ... |
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Aldo Cooper: I Study Aikido, the Martial Art of Peace I missed the draft by less than two years. I missed being bused by less than two years. I forget what the third big thing was that I missed three big ... |
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Emilia Gallegos: Copper Was Vital to the War Effort My father was then sent to a copper mine. Copper was in short supply during WWII. So after school, they used to send the kids out to find as much copper ... |
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Elnora Taylor: During the War I lived in San Mateo During the war I was living in San Mateo, near the Burrell estate. My husband and another young man bought for lots. They built three houses together. They built our house, and that is where my daughter was born. She was born at Mills hospital in San Mateo. My son was also born there. |
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Eddie Rojas: Despite A Desire to Join, My Lack of Education Keeps Me out of the Service When I was 18 years old in San Antonio, Texas, I went to see the Sergeant there and I want to sign in to go in. At that time, there wasn’t ... |
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Doug and Ginger Levick: We went from one of the Worst Engineering Squadrons to the Best Anyway, at that point I was in the Naval ROTC when I was in college which I wouldn’t do if I had to do it over again. It took a lot ... |
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Doris Robertson-Polley: Our Air Force World Tour: 28 Moves in 20 Years When Don went into the service he went into the Strategic Air Command. He went in as an airman because his commission hadn’t come through yet. He was in Germany for ... |
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Walta Lou Wilcox: In Our House, It was Democrats vs. Republicans During the war, I was young girl but I don’t recall a whole lot. I had a lot of relations that was in it, of aunts and uncles that had boys ... |
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Jeremy Lezin: I Missed Out on Another Worthless War I was fortunate, I guess, through the draft number and the fact that I have a curvature of my spine; I have some scoliosis and they didn’t like that at all so I was able to get out. Vietnam was another worthless war. |
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Dale Townsend: During Vietnam, My Home Was a Stop on the Underground Railroad I got ... |
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John Donovan: I Fall in Love with Planes and Flying We sent away for a book. When my dad bought the ... |
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Jim McGovern: I Served in the Naval Reserves I served in the navy. I enlisted in the reserves on December 31, 1943. In May I was called up to be a naval aviation cadet. I flunked out for various ... |
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Ginger and Doug Levick: Signs of the War Were All Around Us We had air raid preparation kinds of – my ... |
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George Newell: While in the Navy I Spark Controversy by Teaching a Class on US Involvement in Vietnam But, I got started in the Civil Rights movement. That’s really how I started political organizing. Then we formed SDS to oppose the war. When I was in high school my ... |
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George Dunn: I Flew the Planes that Refueled Patton’s Tanks At I think 19, I enlisted in the Army in World War II. I went into the Air Force and outfit I was in was the Troop Carrier Command. Flew C47s ... |
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Frank Maxwell: How I got Drafted ... |
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Mickey Frazer: Jack goes to Korea While I was married, Jack went to Korea. John was three and Karen was five. I had lived with my dad. John was always into something! It was a good year.... |
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Mel Wilcox: I Witness A-Bomb Tests I enlisted in 1950, unbeknowing to my father. He bought this farm shortly after that I enlisted in the service and he was planning on my help on the farm. I ... |
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Mattie Leeds: The Doctors Decided I Was Crazy I was drafted to go to Vietnam. Before the induction I went to the doctors and they decided I was crazy. My parents had something to do with that. I had ... |
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Marjorie Hook: I Joined the Navy and End Up in Kansas I was in the Medical. Oh, in Denver! No, I worked in an optical shop where they made glasses. Then when I went into the Navy I went into Medical Corps ... |
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Madonna Wagner: My Husband and I Served in the Ohio Civil Air Patrol During WWII His brother went into the Marine Corp first, and my husband decided after that that he should – ... |
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Lou Urbanski: My Experience as a Brewer Qualified me for Ordinance January 1942. As I say, I enlisted at Fort Hayes, Columbus and went over to Indiana and was there for a couple days. Then I went to Hamilton Field, California up ... |
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Lenny Hobbs: I Was Drafted for the Korean War I didn’t jump to Canada like the Vietnam did. When the Vietnam War broke out you could see; we were going fishing up in Canada and you’d see 500 hitchhikers within ... |
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Larry Coppes: Close Calls in the Desert and at Sea I went into the service when I was about halfway through the eleventh grade. I hadn’t even finished high school. I took the GED test while I was in the service ... |
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John Rialson: During Vietnam, I Win a Personal Battle I was in college during Vietnam. Supposedly you had a deferment as long as you were in college. I ended up staying in college for three years, but I only had ... |
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Marilyn Patton: I certainly remember rationing ... |
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