I really dont. The fact that she had a brand new dress ready for a funeral said something else. Every woman needs a black dress. [ cheers ] her lucky number. The girl from the crosstown rival watching the game up in the stands. The pretty blond named michelle who would become 1986 homecoming queen at pepperell high. 3 f2 graduacion de su ano fue un supongo. I guess. Reporter number 15, Thad Reynolds, and michelle sullins were prom dates, married right out of high school. They were both popular, both nice looking, both friendly, had a lot of friends, social. I mean, they had it all. Reporter but years on people had strong opinions about the onetime homecoming queen. She is one of the most evil people that ive ever dealt with. Reporter and thats because of what happened early one morning. Lots of stab wounds. It certainly was a bad crime scene. Reporter with their church at the center of their lives, supportive families living right next door, how had it come to what it did . This kind o
One sniper bullet i would be shaking in fear, i guess i finally got another tank, and we had to get another crew because of the four tanks crewmen. Three were killed five of us survive survived we had to get another tank crew, and it was about two weeks. Massive count ererattack. We all got out of that one safely. Not safely, i got burned and hit on the arm with a piece of shrapn shrapnel. Another question from the audience . Another question. Thank you all for attending, thank you especially to our veteran veterans. American history tv in prime time continues in a moment. Coming up, the wives and children of soldiers discuss their memories of world war ii including pearl harbor, dday and president roosevelts death thats followed on the invasion of sicily and the Italian Campaign to the liberation of europe. Cspans latest book, sundays at eight. A collection of stories from some of the most influential people over the last 25 years i decided to take it, because whether its an illusion
In his book, john keegan writes, a Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across Six Continents and all its oceans. It left hundreds of millions wounded, killed 100 18 million human beings, and materially devastated much of the heartland of human civilization. This affected life here in abilene as well as in communities around the world where our panelists were during the war. I will begin our introductions with march olson. Marge spent the war, part of the war in texas and oklahoma. She followed her husband from post to post. They spent time in our relic, texas, that i know we will talk about. Next on our panel we have doris snyder. Doris is the mother of our museum curator, william snyder. That has made the panel a real Family Affair as you will see in a moment. Skipping down to the end of the table, bob was a boy in western oklahoma. Went on to oklahoma a m, now of course Oklahoma State university, where he studied journalism. He met his wife and they
Please wait until you get it so the cameras will be able to pick up the audio. Being young during that time, in my studies at school when i was getting my phd we talked to a lot of wives who lost their husbands in the current wars. What did the home front what did the men and women do when a neighbor or a friend got news they lost a husband . Are you speaking to me . Anybody on the panel. Oh. I lost Three Friends in the war. One, his ship was bombed and split in half. And he was asleep on the bottom deck at that time. And the other one, jerrys plane was bombed and of course, they were all killed on the plane. And then ben worked at firestone with me. And i always felt so bad that he enlisted because he was all that his mother had. He had no reason to enlist. He wouldnt have had to but he did anyway. And he was all she had and he didnt come home. I guess i was one of the lucky ones. My fiance came home and we got to be married and had three children. Thats one. Another question for the
To be married and we had three children. Of course, theres one. Another question for the panel . This question is for mrs. Olson and mrs. Snyder. I heard the toughest job is an army wife. How do you feel about that . Do you feel that . Or a marine wife. When he got home, we were married in three weeks after he got home. The war was still going on, he got to come home because of what he had been through, so thats why we were sent to camp leje e lejeune. We lived there on base for almost a year almost two years i think, we lived on base and it was one of the most fun times of my life. I could walk to the ocean, the grocery store, even though we lived in a what today they call a travel trailer. Thats what all the married marines lived in. I had to learn to cook on a camp stove, i had to pump up a little tank on the front of it. I had some wonderful times. I had marine friends and families, the whole base was family mostly and we had some lifelong friends we made there. Actually, it was a