Up next, an oral history with u. S. Army veteran baldwin myers, recorded in 2015 by the korean war legacy foundation. He talked about his time in korea and how the experience shaped his life after the war. He was eventually diagnosed with ptsd. The interview project was underwritten by south koreas ministry of patriots and veterans affairs. Baldwin i am baldwin frank myers. My first name is spelled b as in boy, aldwin. In the army i was known by my buddies as baldy. [laughter] but when when i reported back to them years later, 30 years later, that this is frank myers and i wanted to talk to them, they didnt know who i was because they only knew me as baldy. But we when we got that cleared up, then Everything Else flowed. Interviewer and could you spell your last name . Baldwin myers. Interviewer what is your birthday . Baldwin may 29, 1931. Interviewer where were you born . Baldwin in owyhee county, idaho. That is spelled that is the indian name owyhee county, idaho. Thats near Jordan
Delawaret to school in i went to the university of , delaware. So my history basically was in delaware before i went into the service. Now i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan. But i was colorblind. And i could not get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserves core. Reserve corps. Which they let College Students go into with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school, and the thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too far. So you would go back to school and you would start again wherever you left off. I went to try to enlist, but i was colorblind. Had to go back. Finally i got in the army. But i was restricted in what i could do. I went to texas for basic training. Texas. 16 weeks in they sent me from texas to the university of connecticut to continue my education. And unfortunately, when i got to the university in connecticut, i had had everything they were teaching. I had already been throu
I am baldwin frank myers. My first name is spelled balwin when i reported back to them and said this was frank myers they did not know why was because they only knew me as baldy. Can you spell your last name . Myers. My birthday is may 29th 1918 owyhee county, idaho. It is an orange valley. That is an indian name . It is an indian name. I do not know what it means. Tell me about your family. Where you are growing up. I grew up on a cattle ranch about five miles south of jordan valley. My mother was born in east europe. She was austrian. My father was an old cowboy whose ancestry goes back to the neptune in 16 22. He arrived in charleston, south carolina. His descendants served in the revolutionary war. They were original founders of tennessee, the city of newport. They came to missouri, and in 1841 migrated to california. An old man of 62 brought his 12 grandchildren out in california. What about your siblings . I have one in reno who runs a computer store. I have another that is insan
South bay firefighters continue to battle the crews fire burning in gilroy near crews road and oak spring circle. Evacuation orders remain in effect right now as that fire is still threatening several homes. Kron fours rob fladeboe joins us right now live from gilroy with the very latest on the effort to fight this fire rop. Thats right justin them about a 6 or 7 miles or so east of downtown gilroy here along highway one 52 you can see the blackened hills are behind me thats a long kenyada road where the fire has been burning for about the past 24 hours or so over my Left Shoulder here this is the ridge where firefighters have been working this afternoon just on the other side there the last thing they want to do is have that fire jumped the ridge if it did that then it would threaten busy highway one 52 right here behind me so far though it looks like thats not going to happen, lets take a closer look. Battle against the crews fire which broke out near crews road on sunday afternoon i
Because there are multiple fires erupting across the bay area tonight, one of those fires is burning dangerously close to the benicia bridge. While in the south bay another fire is forcing people to evacuate their homes. Good evening, thanks much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman and we have a team of reporters following all these breaking news stories of all these fires are erupting across the bay area right now strong winds are fueling the flames will talk to lawrence about that well go to the south bay first 4 firefighters continue to battle the crews fire thats burning in gilroy evacuation orders are still in effect there. But first we go to the east bay where there are 2 fires burning right now one is in benicia the other rodeo and thats where we find kron fours tell the sacking she joins us live now with more on the progress that crews have made just in the past hour at the she seen that shes at right now they and just seeing as you mentioned as you could