For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, Texas; enlistment in U.S. Army at age of fourteen; training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Ft. Benning, Georgia; deployment during Cuban Missile Crisis; discharge from Army and enlistment in U.S.

For the Tarrant County War Veteran Project. UNT graduate student. Memories of “military brat” childhood; education at North Texas State University and participation in protests against Vietnam War; teaching career at Tarrant County College; decision to join U.S.