| Title |
Robert L. Merrill, West Jordan, Utah: an interview by Frances Merrill |
| Alternative Title |
Robert L. Merrill, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Merrill, Robert L., 1961- |
| Contributor |
Merrill, Frances; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-03-22 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Saudi Arabia |
| Subject |
Merrill, Robert L., 1961- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (29 pages) of an interview by Frances Merrill with Robert L. Merrill on March 22, 2004. Part of the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Merrill (b. 1961) enlisted in the U. S. Army Signal Corps in July 1980. He was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, until December 1990, when his unit shipped out to Saudi Arabia. The ground war portion of Desert Storm began in January 1991. Merrill describes life in the military and talks about his political views. He retired from the military in 2001. Interviewed by Frances Merrill. 29 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
29 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6j69jz4 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; Persian Gulf War (1991) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034912 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69jz4 |
| Title |
Page 19 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034900 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROBERT L. MERRILL Mar h 22, 2004 unu ual? RLM: Not offhand. A lot of the stuff-well, one time, it was wh n I wa in th ati nal Guard-but an old platoon sergeant made first sergeant, and he was first sergeant of the 115th Heavy Equipment Maintenance C01npany. He had come in, and we was in Iowa at the tin1e doing our two week training. And he'd come in our area where we were sleeping, and myself and a couple of other guys, had got some tape-some of that packing tape that's got the string in it- and we had got him down to the bed and we had taped him to the bed. But other than that, I can't remember a whole lot of funny things that had happened. There's one thing that comes to mind that-it's not funny, but it is really- it was a sad thing. And it was when we was over in Germany the second time. We had this kid in our platoon. He was maybe 19 or 20. He had a girlfriend back in Colorado. And one night they went out and they got drunk. And what they would do when they got drunk is they'd go-and they'd say don't play at the railroads and things like that. What they would do is they'd lay down on the tracks to where when the train come, it would go over them. But what happened is, as the last car was getting ready to pass, he lifted up his head too soon. And he lived for about five days. The medic in the company had got him stabilized, resting in the hospital, and he lived for five days. They couldn't operate on him, or anything, because his head was so swelled up like a balloon that they couldn't do anything. They could only keep him stabilized. And when he passed away they went back and told his parents, and everything. My lieutenant at that time went back and told them what had happened. And its really sad because 18 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69jz4/1034900 |
