Leech Lake
Memories and stories of military veterans from the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
Episodes
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Theodora Redwing part 4
Theodora Redwing didn’t like the sight of blood. But one night, when she was working guard duty for the Navy, a girl cut her wrists and Theodora had to act fast.
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Theodora Redwing part 3
Theodora Redwing was a yeoman in the Navy. She trained female recruits and tested them to see what job they could do. And if the recruits didn’t salute her, it was her job to remind them.
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Theodora Redwing part 2
Theodora Redwing went to Navy boot camp at the Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland. Back then, training wasn’t coed. For female recruits, training wasn’t guns but marching, swimming and book learning.
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Theodora Redwing part 1
Theodora Redwing was working at Northern States Power in Minneapolis, making photocopies all day long, day after day. There has to be more to life than this. So she joined the Navy.
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Glen Cloud part 5
Glen Cloud, Navy, worked the mailroom on the USS Oklahoma City during the Vietnam War. When he took the ship’s helicopter to Vietnam for mail deliveries, he had to man the door gun against enemy ground fire.
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Glen Cloud part 4
Aboard the Navy’s USS Oklahoma City, Glen Cloud was initially sent to work in the mess deck. There he helped serve four meals a day to a crew of 1,200.