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Show THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH TYLER JEWKE O DE THE INTERVIEWER IS JOHN C. WORSE CROFT. THI I THE THE LEGACY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT. TAPE No. IA-26. JCW: This is John Worsencroft and I'm sitting down with Tyler Jewkes. It is Monday, December 14 and it's about twelve o'clock in the afternoon. Tyler, why don t you just go ahead and start off telling me a little bit about yourself, where you were born, j ust a brief biographical sketch and we' 11 go from there. TJ: Okay. Like John said, I'm Tyler Jewkes. I was born and raised in Richfield, Utah. Actually born in Richfield, lived there a couple of years and then we moved to a small town just outside of it called Central Valley. Lived there, went to school at South Sevier High School, elementary, middle school and high school. Whole life grew up in a small town. Graduating class in high school was about a hundred people. After that point, during my senior year of high school that's when I was looking into the National Guard. JCW: Was your dad or anybody in your family in the military? TJ: No. Well, both my grandparents served, my grandpa, but that was during World War I, World War II as well. Where they were part of the draft, they didn 't necessarily choose to join, they ended up serving. Both of them served, but it wasn't necessarily big history within my family of being a war veteran or serving within the military. I had one uncle who served in Vietnam, but he was usually pretty closed about it, so we didn 't hear a whole lot about it. Very patriotic family, but not a whole lot of talk as far as like joining the military. My mother was pretty much against it when I did join. JCW: Why don't you talk to me about what kind of things influenced you deciding you wanted to join the Guard, or the military in general, when you were a young teenager. 1 |
