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Delano Brister came in contact with the 84th Infantry Division while it was in training from Camp Claiborne prior to...

Things were still hard at the end of the war. Rationing continued for about three months. Materials started coming back...

The Japanese attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] started at five...

Rosemary Ramsey says the boys returning from the war had changed a lot. They were all grown-up. [Annotator's Note:...

Blaine Kern was sent to Korea. People were taking the children and throwing them into the snow. The soldiers gave the...

Adelaide Benjamin remembers the first Christmas tree the family had out there [Annotator's Note: in El Paso, Texas]....

Starting about 1940, Brown Shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] began as a result...

Norma Jean Ford Beard feels museums are important to show the cost and not just the glory of war. All the veterans that...

Nelson Constant was born in December 1914 in Bayou Buff, Louisiana. He remembers a soldier that came back from World...

Everything in speech begins with the ear and Lauren Swinney had a good ear for languages. She does fairly well with...

President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] passing away was...

Bernie Smith’s husband was United States Army Captain William “Bill” Smith, an officer in an artillery battalion in the...

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