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- Marjorie Varner talks about her service in the Army Nurse Corps from 1949 to 1971 and serving in both the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Varner recalls her nurse's training, her assignments in surgery units, her uniforms, her quarters and assignments in Korea and Vietnam and a terrible battlefield incident in which she attempted to take a soldier's blood pressure only to find that he was a double amputee. She says that she earned a bachelor's degree during her enlistment, became a nursing supervisor at several hospitals, and retired as Chief Nurse at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Denver. She also describes some of her activities in retirement.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-06-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Linden N. Anderson talks about her long career in the American Red Cross which included service in World War Two and the Korean and Vietnam wars. Anderson reminisces about her childhood, attending the University of Texas, teaching in Texas public schools and finally joining the Red Cross in 1943. Anderson talks about her training with the "doughnut dollies", being stationed at the 91st General Hospital, shipping out to England and being stationed in Wales until her unit could be moved to a hospital at Oxford. Anderson says that her job was to provide entertainment for the wounded and build morale and that she often took patients on bus tours throughout England. After V-E Day, Anderson says that she returned to the States, but was soon recalled by the ARC to serve in Japan and in Korea during that conflict. Anderson also says that she remained in the Red Cross for twenty-years after Korea, discusses her duty stations in Libya, Germany, Korea and the U.S., describes treating casualties in Japan during the Vietnam war and finishing her career in Corpus Christi in 1973. Anderson is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-02-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Retired Army Colonel Mildred Fritz talks about her 29 year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corp and her service in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. Fritz talks about growing up in New Jersey and deciding to become an Army nurse when World War II started and discusses her duty stations in San Antonio, Texas, Osaka, Japan, Denver, Colorado, Landstuhl, Germany, Long Binh, Vietnam, and Heidelberg, Germany. Fritz says that the opportunity to be involved in cutting edge advances in cardiac care was the most rewarding part of her military medical career. She also talks about her life after her retirement in September 1979 and says that she spends most of her time gardening and traveling.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-01-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- President Trumans 1951 Christmas message. He contrasts Christmas 1951 with Christmas 1941.
- Date Issued:
- 1951-12-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Time to give notice to communists to stop, brought on the Pres. [sic] administration's bungling.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Meet the enemy where they will be, points out this may be a bluff.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Willie recounts his youth in Mississippi, his service in the U.S. Army in Korea, and being hired at Fisher in December 1954. He describes the jobs blacks were placed on, discrimination, and being denied an apprenticeship. He comments on millwright work, family, neighborhood, and retirement.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-01-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- During a ceremony at the White House, President Obama describes the actions of Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Army Chaplain (Captain) Emil J. Kapaun for his extraordinary heroism while serving with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy at Unsan, Korea and his death as a prisoner of war in November 1950. An unidentified speaker reads the official Congressional citation as the President presents the medal to Captain Kapaun's son who accepts it on behalf of his family. U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains Major General Donald Rutherford delivers the invocation and the benediction.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-04-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican nominee for President, speaks at the Masonic Temple in Detroit as part of his Michigan campaign. Eisenhower focuses his speech on the failures of the Truman administration's foreign policy, specifically targeting Truman's approach to Korea. Eisenhower lists a number of warnings which he says that Truman and the U.S. State Department failed to heed following World War II and how that failure resulted in the administration blinding leading the country into a preventable and unnecessary war in Asia. Recording is incomplete. Eisenhower is introduced by Brett M. Alger, the Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1952-10-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama speaks at an event marking the 60th anniversary of the signing of the armistice ending the Korean War July 27, 1953. Obama recounts the singing of the armistice, the end of hostilities and what returning home was like for the veterans. He declares "victory" in what has been called the "forgotten war." Obama thanks those who served saying, "in the spring of your youth you learned how short and precious life can be. And because of you, millions of people can keep on living it, in freedom and in peace." Held at the Korean War Memorial on the Mall in Washington D.C.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-07-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection