Oral history interview with Duane W. Marxen, [sound recording], 2005.

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Oral history interview with Duane W. Marxen, [sound recording], 2005.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/757932826

Marxen, a Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan native, discusses his service in the U.S. Army in Germany and stateside during the Vietnam War. Marxen mentions his childhood, working for several years at Beloit Tool Corporation, and being drafted soon after getting divorced. He speaks of basic training at Fort Campbell (Kentucky), advanced infantry training at Fort Polk (Louisiana), and the restrictions on his service due to being a Canadian citizen. Marxen tells of being held at base while most of those he trained with were sent to Vietnam and describes his interactions with returning Vietnam veterans. Assigned to Germany for Exercise Reforger One, he discusses his combat gear and going on maneuvers near the Czechoslovakian border. Marxen states he spent nineteen months at Fort Riley (Kansas), first as a recoilless rifleman in a jeep and later as a clerk/typist for headquarters. He touches on driving officers and occasionally being given a hard time about having easy duty. Marxen details being a guard at ex-president Dwight D. Eisenhower's funeral: being selected and bussed to Abilene (Kansas), seeing many soldiers faint from standing at attention so long in the heat, and seeing Richard Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower pass by. Marxen talks about returning to Wisconsin, using the GI Bill to attend college, and being unable to join the Peace Corps as a Canadian citizen. He states he recently became a United States citizen so that he can vote.

Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 24 min.); analog, 1 7/8 ips.Master sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 24 min.); analog, 1 7/8 ips.Transcript : 13 p.

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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