by Kenneth Corn | Feb 10, 2021 | Living Histories
An Interview with Korean War Veteran Bill Lack By Mike McCarthy I grew up in Meridian, Mississippi and my father and mother were divorced in 1940. My father was automatically drafted into the military before WWII started. Then his two brothers got called in after he...
by Kenneth Corn | Feb 3, 2021 | Living Histories
At 100 years old, veteran looks back on time serving in the Army.聽 By Ken Corn Old Fort, North Carolina, resident and WWII veteran Harry Viruet celebrated his 100th birthday in May this year. Viruet was born in 1920 and joined the US Army when he was nineteen, a year...
by Kenneth Corn | Jan 22, 2021 | Living Histories
Don鈥檛 Ask That Questionby John Hallimore Veteran鈥檚 Creative Writing Workshop 4th meeting, February 17th, 2016 Coming home from Vietnam to America amidst college sit-ins, peace protests, passionate political debate, and random cultural turmoil is not a fond memory. My...
by Kenneth Corn | Jan 12, 2021 | Living Histories
Jimmy McKinney 鈥 Driving a Howitzer with The Big Red 1 By Michel Robertson North Carolina native Jimmy McKinney was working at a paper plant when he received his draft notice in May 1966. 鈥淚鈥檇 been married about three years, with no children. I preferred it to be me...
by Kenneth Corn | Jan 8, 2021 | Living Histories
A Dubious Honor:Having Flown a U-2C with the Canopy Open by Richard “Duke” Woodhull One fine day in 1968, I accompanied a squadron mate of mine to Palmdale in a T-33, for the purpose of retrieving one of our U-2Cs that had been loaned to another...
