| Title |
John Reed, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John C. Worsencroft, November 2, 2009: Saving the Legacy tape no. IA-18 |
| Alternative Title |
John Reed, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Reed, John, 1951- |
| Contributor |
Worsencroft, John C., 1981-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2009-11-02 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Kuwait; Iraq |
| Subject |
Reed, John, 1951- --Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (58 pages) of an interview by John C. Worsencroft with John Reed on November 2, 2009. From tape number IA-18 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Reed (b. 1951) was born in San Antonio, Texas. He discusses his family and recalls his experiences at Occidental College during the Vietnam War, his feelings and thoughts about the war, and serving in the military. He joined the Army Reserves in 1982, drilling with a unit out of Santa Barbara, California, until his move to Inactive Reserves in 1995. In 2000, he and his family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he returned to active status when he joined the 96th Regional Readiness Command at Fort Douglas as historian with the 96th Infantry Division Association. In April 2007 he was deployed to Iraq. He discusses the impact of his deployment on himself and his family. He received Military Transition Team Training (MITT) at Fort Riley. His unit arrived in-country in July. He served with the 104th Training command, working with the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-1), assisting with Iraqi reconstruction projects. He describes his activities, experiences and duties in Iraq, including his travel through the region with reconstructions inspectors to project sites. He was released from duty after nearly nine months of service in Iraq. He describes the thoughts, feelings, and challenges associated with his return home. John retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Army. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Utah. Interviewed by John C. Worsencroft. 58 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
58 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/s6vx2jng |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; Iraq War (2003-2011) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1035034 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx2jng |
| Title |
Page 22 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034996 |
| OCR Text |
Show John Reed 2 R2009 the 5th Armored Division. So here you have a five year old kid who ha already ab rb d enough about the Second World War that he knows that his dad fought in it. I distinctly remember every kid that I hung out with in Ohio growing up, their dad had been in the Navy or the Air Force or the Army. Some of them had fought; some of them hadn't. There was a little kid who whipped something out of a bag at show and tell, I think it must have been the 6th grade. It's a German P38 automatic pistol. He just took it out of his dad's sock drawer. The kid was a squared away little kid. He knew how to drop the magazine out, strip the rounds out with his thumb, clear the chamber, so he brings the weapon in unloaded. He's maybe ten years old. The teacher didn't bat an eyelash. Probably happened a couple of times already. So this was a generation of kids, who in my case, were five years younger than, who's that guy? Ron Kovic? A little bit later than that generation, but still steeped in all that stuff. When I became a long-haired punk, my dad was kind of irritated at the long haired part, but he really, he wasn't wrapped around the axel about my opposing Vietnam, because I don't think it made too much sense to him either. Then the whole issue of the 364 draft number completely prevented anything really from coming down to the short and curlies. Go to Canada, whatever. But just something I want to put down, a lot of people think, oh, young guys didn't want to go to Vietnam because they could get hurt. All I know is I know why I did not want to serve in the military in the early '70s. And here's another little story. My parents lived in La Jolla, California, it's outside San Diego and I went to college in LA. So I would drive my '64 Volkswagen bug back and forth. Oftentimes I'd drive north, past Camp Pendleton, California, on Highway 5. And I'd drive by a part of Camp Pendleton 21 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx2jng/1034996 |
