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- Description:
- President Obama speaks to troops at Camp Bonifas, a United Nations Command military post located 400 meters south of the southern boundary of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Obama thanks the troops for their service saying it is vital to keeping peace and prosperity on the peninsula.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-03-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- James Schlesinger sees some U.S. troops remaining in Korea, armed with conventional weapons, and does not rule out the use of nuclear weapons in the unlikely event of a catastrophic defeat. Broadcast on CBS-TV, September 1, 1975.
- Date Issued:
- 1975-09-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Taihiru Bai, a Korean, says that he went to Hiroshima after the bombing and was exposed to the radiation, but did not receive his medical card until only recently. Bai talks about returning to Korea after the war and then immigrating to Brazil. He expresses great concern about discrimination faced by survivors of the atomic bombings. Part one of two parts.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-07-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Donald Trump speaks about the federal spending bill that funds the government through September 30, 2018 and says that he signed it "as a matter of national security" but that he did not like doing so and would never again sign a similar bill. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross makes brief remarks about a new trade deal with South Korea. Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis talks about the military budget. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen talks about how the budget will facilitate border security.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- U.S. Army Lieutenant General Curtis "Mike" Scaparrotti, Commander of United Nations Command, R.O.K.-U.S. Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea, introduces President Obama whom delivers remarks to U.S. troops and personnel at U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan in South Korea. Obama expresses his pride in the troops and personnel stationed at the garrison, and their efforts to upholding the peace with the Republic of Korea. Kim Sung, Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, makes an opening statement.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-04-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama joins Korean President Park Geun-Hye to deliver brief remarks on the return of Korean seals - Korean cultural artifacts - to the Republic of Korea. Obama and Park both are heard using translators.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-04-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Taihiru Bai, a Korean, says that he was working outside of the city with his familiy when the atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima. He also talks about his search for his brother in the aftermath of the bombing, the years of hardship following the war, returning to Korea, being threatened by war in Korea, and finally finding a way to emigrate to Brazil. Bai says that he only recently acquired a Hibakusya Medical Card with the help of Hibakusha association in Brazil. Part two of two parts.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-08-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama joins Korean President Park Geun-Hye to deliver brief remarks on the return of Korean seals - Korean cultural artifacts - to the Republic of Korea. Obama and Park both are heard using translators.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-04-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Retired Colonel Patricia Silvestre talks about her personal history and education and her career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps which included service in the Vietnam War. Silvestre says she was running short of money for nursing school when she discovered the Army Student Nurse Program and enlisted in 1956. She talks about finishing her classes, doing basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas and then driving to her first assignment at Fort Lewis in Washington. She says that her first overseas assignment was in Korea as head nurse on an orthopedic ward and she describes the living conditions, her clothing, the weather and her social life, and says that she believes that hospital staff was really able to help the Koreans. After Officer's Candidate School, Silvestre says that she was sent to Vietnam as a chief nurse and was stationed at a children's hospital near the DMZ where she dealt with a great variety of tropical diseases and war related wounds. Silvestre says that she ended her career at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Denver in 1984 after serving at various Army operations around the United States. She says that her experience in Vietnam changed the way she thinks of war because she witnessed its terrible consequences. Silvestre is interviewed by Ruth Stewart.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-10-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Retired Army Colonel Mary Patricia Laughlin talks about her childhood and education and her service as an U.S. Air Force nurse from 1951 to 1954 and as an Army nurse from 1963 to 1980. Laughlin says she was raised in Omaha and went into nursing because she didn't want to be a "teacher or secretary." After graduating from nursing school in 1946, she says that she worked in Seattle and Denver and other locations around the Midwest, before finally joining the Air Force in 1951, during the Korean War. She left the Air Force in 1954 and after working in various hospitals, joined the U.S Army in 1963 and was sent to Korea. Laughlin describes life and work in Korea and says that she was next sent to Japan and later worked in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Fairbanks, Alaska and Monterey, CA, where she retired in February 1980. Laughlin is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart and Carol A. Habgood.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project