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Leroy D. “Roy” Zarucchi, Interviewed By Stephen D. Rees, Jr., Part 1, Roy Zarucchi
Leroy D. “Roy” Zarucchi, Interviewed By Stephen D. Rees, Jr., Part 1, Roy Zarucchi
MF087 Vietnam Veterans Oral History
Leroy D. “Roy” Zarucchi, interviewed by Stephen D. Rees, Jr. at Troy, Maine on July 10, 1999. Zarucchi talks about his background growing up in an Oakland, California household where Italian was his first language, his view of the military, the draft, and "cannon fodder," his first job teaching English and Latin after graduating from college and facing the news that a pending salary increase would be conversely proportional to his low wages, making the decision to enter Air Force officer training school. He discusses basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, opting to go into navigator training, being assigned …
Leroy D. “Roy” Zarucchi, Interviewed By Stephen D. Rees, Jr., Part 2, Roy Zarucchi
Leroy D. “Roy” Zarucchi, Interviewed By Stephen D. Rees, Jr., Part 2, Roy Zarucchi
MF087 Vietnam Veterans Oral History
Leroy D. “Roy” Zarucchi, interviewed by Stephen D. Rees, Jr. at Troy, Maine on July 10, 1999. Zarucchi talks about his background growing up in an Oakland, California household where Italian was his first language, his view of the military, the draft, and "cannon fodder," his first job teaching English and Latin after graduating from college and facing the news that a pending salary increase would be conversely proportional to his low wages, making the decision to enter Air Force officer training school. He discusses basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, opting to go into navigator training, being assigned …
Leroy D. “Roy” Zarucchi, Interviewed By Stephen D. Rees, Jr., Part 3, Roy Zarucchi
Leroy D. “Roy” Zarucchi, Interviewed By Stephen D. Rees, Jr., Part 3, Roy Zarucchi
MF087 Vietnam Veterans Oral History
Leroy D. “Roy” Zarucchi, interviewed by Stephen D. Rees, Jr. at Troy, Maine on July 10, 1999. Zarucchi talks about his background growing up in an Oakland, California household where Italian was his first language, his view of the military, the draft, and "cannon fodder," his first job teaching English and Latin after graduating from college and facing the news that a pending salary increase would be conversely proportional to his low wages, making the decision to enter Air Force officer training school. He discusses basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, opting to go into navigator training, being assigned …
From The Collections Of The Maine Historical Society, Jamie Kingman Rice
From The Collections Of The Maine Historical Society, Jamie Kingman Rice
Maine History
Discussion of the Maine Historical Society's pamphlet collection.
An Indictment Of The System, Jonathan Petrie
An Indictment Of The System, Jonathan Petrie
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
This past week, the nation was hit by a shock wave. Donald Trump, the former host of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” was elected president of the United States. People are wondering, “how could this be?” This is a man who openly used race-baiting rhetoric, endorsed xenophobic policies, insulted disabled reporters and performed so many more ridiculous acts I probably could not fit them into this piece. So how could this guy have possibly won?
Nationalism In The French Revolution Of 1789, Kiley Bickford
Nationalism In The French Revolution Of 1789, Kiley Bickford
Honors College
The French Revolution of 1789 was instrumental in the emergence and growth of modern nationalism, the idea that a state should represent, and serve the interests of, a people, or "nation," that shares a common culture and history and feels as one. But national ideas, often with their source in the otherwise cosmopolitan world of the Enlightenment, were also an important cause of the Revolution itself. The rhetoric and documents of the Revolution demonstrate the importance of national ideas. The Republic relied on national symbols, such as the tricolor flag and the “Marseillaise” anthem, to spread nationalist ideas throughout French …
What Is The Issue? Republicanism Or Sectarianism? What Would Lincoln Say? Maine For Coolidge! : Address Of Percival P. Baxter, Governor Of Maine At The Annual Banquet Of The Lincoln Club, February 12, 1924, Portland, Percival P. Baxter
Maine History Documents
A speech concerned with divisions among the Republican Party in Maine. From page 7: "Unless we arouse ourselves, our party will be broken in Maine; years will pass before the wounds are healed. Let all Republicans, whether Klansmen, Knights of Columbus, or B’nai B’rith, whether Protestants, Catholics, or Hebrews, forget racial and religious differences, forget the hard things said on both sides, and let a reunited party come out from the dark places of distrust into the sunshine of certain victory."