Ed Stewart Interview Clip #5

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Title

Ed Stewart Interview Clip #5

Subject

Ed's Father

Description

Ed describes how his father's military experience influenced him.

Creator

Ian Little and Austin Bryant

Publisher

Wabash College

Date

April 3rd, 2020

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Original Format

MP3

Duration

0:03:45.00

Transcription

Austin Bryant: How much do you think your father’s experiences in the Battle of the Bulge factored into Vietnam and the situations you faced there?

Ed Stewart: Well, like I said, Dad didn’t talk too much about it. But he kinda led me to believe it was my job to do what he had done to the best of my ability and whatever the situation required. And dad and I were so close, he wouldn’t have had to say anything like, go serve your country or like that because I knew that was what he wanted even though he didn't want me to go. Course, A lot of our guys tried to join the National Guard, and I had a girlfriend too. I went and tried to join the National Guard, and it was kind of a joke, and that was fine, because I lived a good life, and got a lot of friends. And now that our DAV unit is going good, and we are starting to do things we wouldn’t do unless we were a group. Its-Dad was really happy about being a veteran and he wore his uniform proudly. He was the best around, in my opinion.

Ian Little: Would you care to talk a little bit about your dad, him being proud to be a veteran-

Ed Stewart: Dad was always a businessman. After he got outta the service, he and his brother started a garage from a barn that was about a mile away from where I live. And that barn looked like it was going to fall down. But the two of them were both good mechanics, and they've done a heck of a business, and the opportunity came up where puritan is at now, there was a garage there, and dad and his brother rented that, and they moved the business down there, and they had a boomin’ business. They were real close family members, they tried to live a real peaceful life, they both had gone to the service. They had a brother who went in the service, for about 15 years, and he sat on the edge of the bed and had a heart attack and died, and we was, my cousin and I, was pretty young and we went to the funeral with them and they took us out of school and we went to Georgia and had a funeral for em, and this something that always stuck in my mind. He really wasn’t in combat but he had been, and he still died for his country, he was in uniform.

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Reference

Ian Little and Austin Bryant, Ed Stewart Interview Clip #5, Wabash College, April 3rd, 2020

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Ian Little and Austin Bryant, “Ed Stewart Interview Clip #5,” Vietnam Veterans, accessed March 28, 2024, https://his240sp20.omeka.net/items/show/22.