| Title: |
Irene Moon
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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| Collection: |
Personal Oral History
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| Description: |
I interviewed my grandmother, Irene Moon, in concerns to her memories of The Second World War. She was born in 1923 to a rural Michigan, farm family. She and her husband, Robert, had been married four months at the start of Americas involvement in the war. My grandfather was "4F", due to his broken arches and his employment with the Greyhound bus lines. "Bus drivers" my grandma said, were part of transportation, so they often didn't have to serve." Irene was keeping house in Detroit and tending to her three daughters for most of the war. She was primarily occupied with her family at that time; "the war didn't have much influence on my life, I was too young and naive I guess, I just knew it was going on and it was bad." I asked her a few questions and this is what she remembered. To most other questions she responded with, "I really don't remember, that was so long ago. I think we just blocked it out here."
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| URL: |
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/brett.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1998 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Moon, Irene, 1923-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1923
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Michigan; United States; North America
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| Speaker occupation: |
Homemaker
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| Age at speaking: |
75
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| Document date: |
1998
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| Interviewer: |
Lyons, Brett
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Michigan; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Biography; Interviews; Local history; Michigan; Michigan--History; North America; Oral history; United States; United States--History; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029294-32448
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