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Elizabeth Clark
My Grandpa was in the Vietnam war. His name is Jeff. Jeff Clark. I can’t believe that he didn’t get hurt. But I love him. There was Snakes and bugs. The weather was terrible. He was even a sergeant. A sergeant is a leader of a group. He dropped trucks out of airplane. He was a grate leader. His troop wore camouflage. Good Luck.
Morgan Costa
I interviewed my dad’s friend, Bob. He was a combat metic. He did not have a choice to do this. The war was Viet Nam. He said lots of people who did stuff in the wars did not have a choice either. He said some of his memories were of the people he met.
Sierra DeWitt
I interviewed Mr. King. He was in the U.S.A. Navy. He served for four years. He was nineteen years old when he started the U.S.A. Navy. The date he started was October 25, 1965. When he joined the navy the first thing he did wus boot camp. He became a small boat captain. He was in the Navy for three years. The branch of the U.S.A. armed services is the United States Navy. He had friends. Some of them died in the U.S.A. Navy School.
Erin Givens
I interviewed Mr. King. He was in the the US navy. He served for four years. He was nineteen when he went into the navy. And in the beginning he was a small boat technician. Then he moved on to diesel engine running. He moved all over the place on the boat. And he settled in at Thailand for two months for repairing the boat. And thay went back to sea And than After four long years he was released.
Katie Helwig
I interviewed Bill Elliot, my mom’s client. He went into the Navy at the age of seventeen. He was in the Navy for four years. He worked as an Electrical Mate 2nd class. He was in the war with North Korea. He worked on two ships. They were both called a destroyer. Their Numbers were 890 and 799. He traveled to Europe, Japan, the Pacific Ocean. A Big Hurricane hit the first time at Sea. In the Navy his full Name was William Elliot.
Charity Hewitt
I interviewed my uncle John Chaney. He served in the armed services from 1995 to 1998. He served in the army. His duties were to fuel the trucks and polish the airplanes. He said it was hard work. Our country was at peace when he was there. He said he learned things that we though he couldn’t do. He said he liked the games there. He said he wore his army suit when he got married. He didn’t like the war. He made a lot of friends there. Once he was in a helicopter, but he wasn’t good at it so he changed. He was glad his friends survived. He was glad he survived.
Bryce Hutchins
This is is an interview for my granpa Vaughn George Hutchins. He served in the navy 4 years. During World War II. He went to a lot of countries like North Afrika, Sothe Amarika, Idily, Elend, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, and Australia. He never got hurt He was a ofiser so He ate well Now He lives in losagoles.
Mariah Jennings
I interviewed My Dad about my Great grandpa. My great grandpa, John Fries, fought in World War II. He was a hero. He was captured by the Germans and is one of a few who escaped. He captured the people holding him prisoner and captured their flag and guns. He was German and spoke German but fought for the USA. He was hailed a hero in his hometown at 21 years of age.
Masci’o Latimer
My gramp served in the army for 4 years. he flew Planes and he was the won who worked on the territs when they were attaked in battol, but he died in world war I by a Bulet in his heart.
Demi Pietromonaco
When Tim my mom’s boyfriend started the armed forces the years were 1995 and 1997 2 years he served in the navy. Some of his duties were he plotted ships course, lattitude, longitude and of course our country was at war. And at neight they wood gamble for there money.
William Pyatt
I’m interviewed my Dad Leonard Pyett. He was in the Army. He helped Helicopters and fought as a infantry troops. He fought in Desert Strom. He got hurt a Helicopter crashed. Helicopter was easy and infantry was hard. He started at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and later went to Feucht, Germany. He was in it from 1988-1992. Then he met my mom.
Tyler Reno
My Grandpa, Howard Davis, was Twenty-five years old when he was drafted into the army. It was during the Korean War, but he was stationed in Colorado as a dental lab technician.
They taught him how to make false teeth. When the service men came home from the war, they came to his unit and got their teeth fixed before being discharged.
When he was stationed in Colorado a Captain and Colonel of the Army came from Korea to see him. They told him that they had a top secret duty for him to perform and that if he told anyone he would be court Marshalled. They gave him a small peice of paper with a map on it of Korea. They told him to enlarge the map and show everyone in the army’s position and division on the map showing the 38t paralell. When he was finished, president Eisenhower’s Officials met together with the map he drew. After their meeting they declared a truce which ended the war.
My Grandpa served in the Army for 21 months. He said the bet part about being in the Army was being stationed in Colorado and not having to be in Korea. The worst par about being in the Army was having to train in the snow during the winter. Overall my Grandpa said it was a fine experience.
Judah Rhodes
I interviewed Mr. King, our school custodian. Mr. king served in the Navy for four years. He joined the Navy when he was nine-teen. The date he joined was October 25, 1965. That’s a few days before my birthday! Before he joined, he went to boot camp. he worked on diesel engines Most were pretty small. I’m glad he pretected our contry
Justin Ross
I interviewed my uncle Kris who was in the air force from 1981 to 1992. His duty was to fill planes with fuel. Some times he would drive a fuel truck to fill them. His favorite plane to fill was the FR 71. Allthough he was in the Air Force, the only time he flew in a plane was to fill another plane. When he joined the Air Force We were at war. He was in the Cold War and the first Iraq war. He also visited Alaska, Texas, japan, Nevada, Korea and Hong Kong and while he was in Japan he went scoopadiving and wen he was in Alaska he went parushooting. He loved the air force because he liked protecting aor kuntry.
Nicholas Russell
My grandpa went to the Vietnam War when he was 17 yrs old from 1968 to 1972. He was a snipper and a commander.
My grandpa got 5 different kinds of war metals. He got the Bronze Star, Metal of Honor, Metal of Gelleidy, Metal, Metal for Viet.
My grandpa spent many of nights hidding in the trees with a snipper riffle waiting for the Vietnameze to come and attack there camp. My grandpa was a hereo. My grandpa took a American gun off a Vietnameze Cornial and killed him with his own gun and my grandpa got to keep the gun as a war trophy.
Jack Stillman
My Grandpa served in the Army for three years. He was in the U.S. mrine corp. He fought with flame tharom, Rockets, lob recoilnes Rifles and Demolition. He was at war when he served. He got shot three times. He worked with Vietnamese. He did a lot of ambushes. It was a very difficult time when he was there.
Daniel Vought
My friend Larry Lage served in the United States Air Force. When he enlisted in the army, he was eighteen. Larry was sent to Floirda to guard the secretary. He was on foot in the army. Larry severed in the Air Force for 3 years.
Mitchell Wagner
My Grandpa Pat was in the Navy. He was in the Navy from 1966 until almost 1970. My grandpa was in the third division. His rank was a Third Class Gunners Mate. He was on the U.S.S. Taluga A.O. 62.
His father did not go into the Navy. He went into the Army. My grandpa fought in the Viet Nam war.
Jonathan Younger
My dad Chris Younger is in the U.S. Coast Guard. He Joined in Setember 1992 and is still serving. He Joined the U.S.C.G. because he wanted to try it from a very young age. While serving he worked on cutter, stopped illegal drugs and illegal immigrants from coming into the Country. He went to aviation school to become a flight mechanic and is still doing it.
Our country was at peace and war when he served.
He whent to Alaska, Mexico, Panama, Columbia, Guatemala, and all over the U.S.
He had other Jobs. He was a remodelling contractor, manager at a skating rink, a security guard for a race track and a fire fighter.
Steve Catton
I interviewed my father, William R. Catton, Jr. who served in the U.S. Navy during and after World War II.
He was just fifteen years old when the U.S. entered the war in December of 1941, and as soon as he turned seventeen (the minimum age) he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, which his father was already serving in. This was in February of 1943. He got out in August of 1946, a year after the war ended.
He served on the USS Ticonderoga, an Essex-class Aircraft Carrier. He was Aviation Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class (an airplane mechanic), Mess Deck Master of Arms (sort of a cafeteria monitor), and a Bosun’s Mate 2nd Class (in charge of a hangar deck airplane handling crew). The Ticonderoga was operating in the Pacific Ocean during the entire time of his service.
One of his memories of his experiences in the Pacific was a stopover at Eniwetok Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean on the Ticonderoga’s way to combat near the Philippines. There he got together briefly with his dad who was serving aboard a different ship that just happened to be there also at the same time. It was pretty amazing to meet up on the far side of the world from their home in Michigan, in the midst of a war. They didn’t know it then, but both of them would eventually make it home safely.
Not before Dad’s ship was hit by two kamikazes on January 21 in the South China Sea though! The first that they knew of the attack was the sound of their ship’s antiaircraft guns firing. Seconds later, he heard the general quarters bugle signal, and then there was an explosion as one of the kamikazes plunged through the flight deck and exploded on the hangar deck where he was. He felt a punch to his shoulder and then saw blood from a piece of shrapnel from the exploding kamikaze which had gone right through it. The ship limped back across the Pacific to Puget Sound for repairs and it was there that he first saw Mount Rainier and decided he’d someday settle in Washington State if he survived the war.
After the war ended, with the explosion of two American atomic bombs over Japan in August of 1945, his ship went into Tokyo Bay and he had shore leave in Yokohama. With the war over there was a need to ferry lots of troops back home again so they welded a couple of thousand bunks into the hangar deck and used the ship as a troop carrier. While they were in port in San Francisco Bay, after bringing back their second load of troops in December of 1945, he was severely injured in a shipboard loading accident. He was put in a plaster cast from his chest to his ankles and spent seven months in hospital before being made whole again. He was discharged from the Navy in August of 1946.
After the war, my dad went to Oberlin College in Ohio on the GI Bill. There he met my mom. After they were married and had graduated they moved to Seattle. He became a professor at the University of Washington and they lived happily ever after, with their beloved Mount Rainier on the horizon.
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