The Greatest Generation

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The Greatest Generation

• Tom Brokaw

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Thomas Broderick

• Merchant Marine then joined Air force
• Blinded by jumping into Holland for Operation
  Market Garden
• Entered insurance business and had an impressive
  level of independenc

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Charles O. Van Gorder

• Surgeon
• Entered war in his early 20s
• Became friends with Dr. John Rodda and saved many
  lives
• Came back to the US and opened a small hospital
  in Andrews, NC
• Citizens didnt trust him because he was so young
  but eventually he earned their trust
• Eventually built a bigger hospital for the small
  town

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Wesley Ko

• Chinese born and raised in the US
• Sense of responsibility and honesty
• Only saw himself as American and went into Air
  force where he had many close calls
• Started printing plant that eventually went under
  due to government regulations after war

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James and Dorothy Dowling

• James- POW
• Started fishing business after war and was
  commissioned by the government to work on the
  Interstate.
• Believed in giving back to the community and
  helped establish Little League in the community

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Rev. Harry Reginald Reg Hammond

• Ordained priest in the Anglican Orthodox church
• Awarded 5 battle stars and 1 bronze star
• Elementary school teacher who received PhD after
  the war

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Lloyd Kilmer

• Joined the Army Air Corps and became POW
• When liberated, he gained an appreciation for the
  American Flag
• Earned the Patrick Henry Award for Patriotism
  when putting up the Boulevard of Flags in his
  town
• Pushes for an amendment to make it illegal to
  desecrate the American flag

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Gordon Larsen

• Those willing to talk about combat didnt
  experience it
• Brother died in war
• Tears when he hears Taps
• Did electrical/heating after war

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The ROMEO Club

• Retired old men eating out
• Group of neighbors from Kerry Corner who
  immigrated from Ireland
• Bond lasted through war and lost only 6 members
• Had meetings and started the club to talk about
  Pearl Harbor, their kids, memories, and how
  different the times have become

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Charles Briscoe

• Worked for Boeing during the War after learning
  the sheet metal trade
• Helped design the B-29 long range bomber

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Dorothy Haener

• Worked at a Ford Motor Company
• Became a Union Activist
• Became a founding member of the National
  Organization for Women
• Involved in labor movements because she felt
  cheated in wages

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Bob Bush

• Medic in military going into the service to help
  people, not kill them
• Helped both American and other soldiers
• Risked his life to save an American soldier lost
  an eye
• Valued work

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Joe Foss

• US Marine Corps Pilot
• Grew up on a farm in South Dakota
• Had a take-it-or-leave it personality
• Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
• Returned home and became state legislature and
  then governor
• First commissioner of the American Football
  League
• Starred in The American Sportsman

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Leonard Bud Lomell

• Unit had most dangerous assignment on D-Day
• Fairness and justice
• Counts his long and happy marriage to his
  longevity

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Colonel Mary Hallaren

• Womans Army Auxiliary Corps member
• Commanded 1st battalion of women and campaigned
  for women to be taken seriously in war
• Became Colonel in the WAC known as Little
  Colonel (1st woman to achieve this rank)
• Director of Job Corps
• Inducted into the National Womens Hall of Fame

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General Jeanne Holm

• Became Captain for the WAC
• Trained WAC troops
• Worked on GI Bill and Womens Armed Service
  Integration Act
• Served in Germany during Berlin Airlift
• Worked for the Job Corps
• Eventually became director of women in the air
  force
• Pushed for equal rights for women and fought
  against sexual harassment

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Marion Rivers Nittel

• Helped make equipment for the war
• Army and Navy gave them a ceremony and a flag
• believed this was the last time patriotism was
  in every heart

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Claudine Scottie Lingelbach

• Navy
• Administrative assistant who delivered highly
  classified papers to the basement of the White
  House
• Stood for patriotism and respect for the
  presidency
• Teacher, Real Estate, retired

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Alison Ely Campbell

• Job at ship yard but wasnt taken seriously
• Followed husband to training
• Secretary
• Learn to cope with life

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Margaret Ray Ringenberg

• WASPS
• 2ed Division, trained in military aircraft
• Tested and transported planes
• No military honors for women who died
• Role model for young women

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Mary Louise Roberts Wilson

• Started courses in nursing in order to support
  her family
• Operating room supervisor in Army
• 1st woman to win the Silver Star
• After war Army reserves chief nurse and worked
  as the Veteran Administration Hospitals
  operating room supervisor

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Martha Settle Putney

• Ambitious, sneaky African American woman
• Statistical clerk for the War Manpower
  Commission
• Resigned from WAC due to racism
• Fought against racism
• Created first all women, all black band in the
  army
• Taught black history and believed that all black
  US citizens should work hard to defeat
  discrimination

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Johnnie Holmes

• Grew up without racial discrimination
• Faced racism in the military but stayed positive
• Met Jackie Robinson and went to an all white
  neighborhood where he found one of his friends
  dead
• Fighting two wars
• Eventually became a landlord and married a white
  woman
• Speaks about racism

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Luis Armijo

• Son of Spanish father and Native American Mother
• Discriminated against
• Couldnt pilot, so became an aviation electronics
  specialists
• Became a teacher after the war

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Norman Mineta

• Ten years old went to an internment camp, was
  wearing his cub scout uniform when a solider
  confiscated his baseball bat
• California Congressman
• 1st Asian to head a major city
• Helped Mexican Americans because he knew what it
  felt like to be an outsider
• Pushed for reparations for the Japanese Americans
• Secretary of Transportation under Clinton and Bush

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John and Peggy Assenzio

• Married a month after Pearl Harbor
• John- cleared mine fields, bronze star, horrified
  by atomic bombs
• Peggy- school teacher, wrote to John everyday
• Married 57 years- problem with couples today is
  that they dont fight long enough to keep the
  marriage together

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The Dumbos

• Group of women who relied on each other, a
  support group
• Women brought large portions of food and someone
  said Dumbo Jumbos
• Men had to take women out to dinner
• Community service projects, pushed for equal pay
  for women, pushed for girls sports
• Moderation in spending, faithful marriages, well
  behaved children, and church
• How marriages lasted due to separation

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Gaylord and Carrie Lee Nelson

• Tom Brokaw

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Jeanette Gagne Norton

• Married because of war
• Husband died and left with a son
• Moved in with mother
• Remarried
• Son visited fathers grave
• Had to move on and find strengh

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Daphne Cavin

• Met husband at Sunday school party, married
  within a year because of war
• Beautician, wrote to Ray everyday
• Ray was killed by an artillery shell
• Remarried
• Two men was taking care of hertwo military
  pensions
• Lost Love Remembered

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George Bush

• Son of wealthy and powerful parents
• Volunteered-combat pilot
• After war- oil fields
• Didnt talk about war, because it was his duty

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Ben Bradlee

• Greek major at Harvard
• Assigned to a destroyer in S. Pacific
• Fight between US and Japanese Navy
• Nothing can compare with the experience of war,
  separated people
• Learned a lot, was a humbling experience

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Art Buchwald

• Writer
• Entered war at 17 by persuading a street drunk to
  sign his fathers name
• Loaded ammunition on Marine Corsairs
• Returned home and enrolled in University of
  Southern California under GI bill even though he
  didnt have a high school diploma
• Became a writer for the International Herald
  Tribune

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Andy Rooney

• Drafted out of college
• Hated convention and authority
• Reporter
• Saved life of a crew member
• Day of Paris liberation, most impactful
• 90 of soldiers didnt go anywhere near the
  fighting so the country doesnt owe them
  anythingRooney
• Omaha Beach, five times since the war

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Julia Child

• Spy, OSS in Asia
• Rejected from the WAVES because she was too tall,
  6 2
• Wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking
• War liberated her I might have been an
  alcoholic

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Gertrude Belle Trudy Elion

• Goal- find cure for cancer
• Worked as a quality control officer
• Research assistance
• Department Leader in Science
• Found things to help with kidney stones,
  leukemia, early AIDS treatment
• Never married
• Role Model for women
• George and Trudy received Nobel prize in medicine

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Al Neuharth

• Grew up poor with his mother
• Father died in farm accident
• Enlisted in Army- intelligence and recon
• Bronze Star
• Founder of USA Today
• Created a news think tank The Freedom Forum
• Learned from failure
• Personnel practices Had more African Americans
  and women on the payroll than any other newspaper

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Maurice Hank Greenberg

• Tom Brokaw

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Robert Dole

• Platoon leader in Italian Alps
• Wounded arm
• Senator, runs for president against Clinton
• Pushed Americans with Disabilities Act
• Pushed for funding for WWII memorial

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