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Jill talks about her childhood home in Clare, South Australia.
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The first school Margaret attended was St Giles Infants School in Lincoln, Great Britain in the 1930s. Margaret recalls her first school and shows how times were different then.
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The war was over by the time I got there. Since I could speak the Polish language fluently and could read and write it, I did get to work as an interpreter for a while. During the Nuremberg trials, for instance, when they had somebody testify at the trials who was...
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My name is Bernie Jackson. I was born May 20th of 1928. I'm talking about my five brothers. They were the big heroes. I was talking with my brother-in-law, who is 91 years old now. We were talking at the kitchen table at my brother's house. He was on his way...
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Who was the first person to be nominated to be president of the United States? George Washington didn't really want it. This person spent quite a bit of time at Thomas Jefferson's house before that, when they were setting up the Government. (From an observer: "Was this person Polish?") He saved...
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We were all subject to re-call for 20 years. So when I got out in 1949, the Korean war started. So they re-called me and gave me three days to report to active duty to Fort Knox, Kentucky. And I didn't do it. What I did, I went and joined the...
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My younger kid sister, she happened to go to nursing school here in Columbus. My wife was in the same nursing class, and my brother's wife was in the same grade at the old St. Francis Hospital here in town. So when I was in the army I would call my...
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Joyce talks about her early school days in Peterborough, South Australia towards the end of WWII.
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Annette talks about her childhood home.
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Annette Lorenz shares her experiences living at in the outback at Watson, South Australia as a 16 year old bide in 1967. Click on blue link and then look at the sattelite view to see how bleak this is!!
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Alice talks about her early schooldays in Laura, South Australia.
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My favourite room as told by Alice Domagalski to the Campbelltown Library Story Circle.
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In the early 1960’s I was in my mid-30's and working as a junior high school band director in Carpentersville IL, a suburb 40 miles northwest of Chicago. Like many music teachers I, for fun and extra income, played in a small combo for dances, parties, weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and what...
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My Dad was taken out of school at an early age and was put to work with his dad, first was "cutting ties" (cutting down trees and shaping them into railroad ties). Then they both went to Texas to work in the oilfields. First they worked dismantling huge steel oil tanks. ...
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Bill tells us how he walked to School in the 1920's in Laura South Australia, and how he wasn't allowed to walk past the hotel on his way home.
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Because they had so many off-post and other musical duties most Army Bandsmen in the 1950’s were exempted from “extra duties” such as K.P., Guard Mount, and “work details” - Most being the key word in that sentence. But the “Command Band” of the entire Fifth Army,...
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With seven of us kids in the family we all thought that we had the best Dad in the world. Our Father’s name was Herman. While we lived in a place called Steptoe we had to get all our water from a pipe line that had several spigots along the line...
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JOHN CLARENCE BLACKHAM (Uncle to Ernest LaMont Blackham – Siblings of Grandpa Ern) John Clarence (Clair) Blackham (my Great Uncle) was born to Samuel and Annie Blackham, September 22, 1895 in Moroni, Utah. He married Eulala Anne Justensen late in life at the age of 63 in Ruth,...
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Click here if you want to see & hear the Talking Picture Story -- or read the story below. Karen - 5 years old This was a picture taken when I was a little girl in my home town in Moroni, Utah. I started Kindergarten in 1954 - we...
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... after the infamous extermination ordered signed by Gov. Lilburn Boggs. . .Saints at Far West and other settlements in Caldwell and Daviess Counties once again abandoned their homes as they fled to Illinois for safety.
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