Michael Ciero

This is a picture of Michael Ciero during his time serving in South Vietnam in the early 1970`s.

Mike Karpenkopfm

I got a chance to interview Mike Karpenkopfm, he is a United States Marine Corp. He grew up in Kharkov, Ukraine and migrated to the United States in 1992. He enlisted into the Marine Corps right after he graduated from Fort Hamilton high school, in Brooklyn. He was 18 at the time. He was raised in Brooklyn, but now resides in Staten Island. He did 3months of basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina. He also did 2 weeks in North Carolina for combat training and then another 3 to 4 months of military specialty training. Mike went out to Iraq for the Invasion in 2003. He served that year from February through May. His task while in service was to secure a certain area which was the oil fields. Mike is now 25 and he is inactive reserve . He can be called back to war until 2009.

Interview with Reinaldo Martinez

http://www.zshare.net/audio/1192206816d02f8f/

I especially liked this part of the interview because i think we get a good understanding of my veteran here. We get to hear why he supports our country going to war and basically why war is necessary. I also picked this small part from the interview because i really liked one line that he says. "Even though war is bad and people get killed there is always someone out there who wants what you have and the only way your gonna protect it is through war sometimes." I like this quote because not only do I completely agree with it but we see a more rational reason for a country needing to go to war .

Reinaldo Martinez

This is my veteran Reinaldo Martinez. He served in the Army during the end of the Vietnam war. He was in the Army under the Airborne division as a medic. The first picture was taken in 1971 and he was only 19 years old at the time. The second picture is of him and his wife at a family wedding.

Kevin Walter United States Marine

Kevin Walter was born in Central Islip New York. Kevin is 27 years old. He was in a ground combat unit 1st Battalion 5th Marines. It was part of RCT 5 which stands for regimental combat team 5. His mission was to clear objectives. He served for four years seven months and twenty six days in the Iraq war.

In Kuwait ready to go home

United States Marines

Kevin in Australia

Top of mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima Japan

Monument of the 2 brothers in South Korea

Southern Oil Fields

A rare moment of sleep in Kuwait

“No better weapon than one taken from a dead enemy”

Marine Carlos Texeira's Interview

Link to Carlos interview


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